You Were Already Fidgeting with Your Jewelry. I Just Made It Official.

You've been spinning your Pipeline Ring and I've been taking notes.

After I released the Pipeline Ring, I kept hearing some version of the same thing: "I can't stop spinning it." Honestly, I had no idea I'd accidentally designed an elevated fidget spinner until enough of you told me so. The sterling silver tube moves freely around the band, so wearing it inevitably turns into playing with it. You spin it while you're thinking, move it back and forth while you're talking, and eventually your hands start finding it without you even realizing you're doing it. Once enough of you pointed that out, I knew exactly what I had to do next.

Meet the Pipeline Bracelet

The new Pipeline Bracelet takes that same satisfying movement and scales it up into a bangle. A smooth sterling silver tube measuring just under 5mm slides freely along a 2mm 14k gold-fill bangle, rather than being fixed in one place. It's part of the design, but it's also meant to be touched, spun and fidgeted with as you wear it. In fact, I encourage it.

There's something especially satisfying about jewelry with movement built into it. So much of what we wear is designed to stay exactly where it was put, but Pipeline isn't. The silver shifts against the gold, the bracelet moves around your wrist, and the design looks a little different depending on where the tube happens to land. All of that movement still lives within a really clean, minimal form that feels unmistakably CMD.

Yes, It's Basically an Elevated Fidget Toy

I'm not going to pretend I don't love this part. Jewelry can be elevated, sculptural and thoughtfully designed while also being something you absentmindedly play with while answering an email, sitting in a meeting or thinking through whatever is occupying your brain that day. Those things don't have to be mutually exclusive.

In fact, I think that kind of interaction is part of what makes the jewelry we wear every day so personal. We twist our rings, slide bracelets around our wrists, reach for a necklace while we're thinking and develop little habits around our jewelry without consciously deciding to. Eventually, those pieces become part of our routines and the way we move through the day. The Pipeline Bracelet just gives your hands something particularly satisfying to find.

Wear It Solo or Add It to the Pile

The Pipeline Bracelet has enough presence to stand on its own, but you know how I feel about a good arm stack. Because sterling silver and 14k gold-fill are already built into the design, you don't have to decide between silver and gold or worry about which metal you're wearing that day. It was made to live comfortably with both.

Layer it between the cuffs and bangles you never take off, use that moving silver detail to break up a heavier stack, or keep everything simple and let Pipeline do its thing on its own. There really aren't any rules here, and half the fun is seeing what happens when you add it to the pieces already living on your wrist.

Made to Move. Made to Wear.

The Pipeline Bracelet is available in three sizes: Small at 2½" in diameter, Medium at 2¾" and Large at 3", with Medium fitting most wrists. This bracelet was designed at my sunny design studio in Asbury Park and each is handmade to order in our Upstate New York production studio using sterling silver and 14k gold-fill.

I have a feeling this one is going to be just as hard to leave alone. If you catch yourself sliding that little silver tube around your wrist all day, I'll consider that a design success.

 

With love and a little nervous energy,
Colleen