Clack, Strike

Whirr!

VINTAGE TYPEWRITER KEYS
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

The antique brass and iron typewriter clatters as fingers scatter across the keys, pressing hard against each character to lift the bar that will emboss the page with a soft, inky letter. Long before keyboards were plugged into the towers of technology, writing was done on the mechanical keys of typewriters which streamed ink ribbons across a sheet of paper as one wrote. Jack Kerouac wrote on such a typewriter, just as the secretaries of Mad Men transcribe notes on a similar device.

All of my keys are authentic, vintage typewriter keys dating back to the early 1900's and they are all one of a kind and wonderfully unique. They are not replicas.

Down to the

Felt

VINTAGE POKER CHIPS
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

It's the height of the Rat Pack, and Vegas is hopping. A handful of wooden poker chips clatter on the felt—or maybe they're clay, the way they clink together on the table. Cigar smoke coils itself around the fistful of players that surround the craps table, while a classy dame in a red satin dress sidles up from the roulette table and slings her arm around you. “High stakes, Mr. Swoony?” the doll asks, batting her fake lashes up at you. You take a look at the slope of her gams through the slit that rides up the side of her dress and whisper to her, “Blow on my dice for luck, kitten.” She puts her lips together and blows into your hand before you cast the dice down the table.

These poker chips are made of wood or clay dating back to the 30's, 40's and 50's, each featuring an artist-made digital image glazed to its surface.

Echoes in

Silver

RECYCLED SILVER
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

Reclaimed and repurposed silver, this line is devoted to elegance. And what is more elegant than the reuse of something tarnished and tattered, seemingly beyond repair?

Anatomy of

Time

WATCH PARTS
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

Aristotle tells us that time is motion, like the gears winding away against one another inside a pocket watch or grandfather clock. Einstein tells us that time is relative; it bends and twists within a single sunbeam, it turns along the path of starlight, and it changes based on where you are. Schrödinger tells us that time is concurrent, a paradox of simultaneous endings and beginnings under the marionette strings of an observer. McTaggart tells us that the passing of time is but an illusion and that past and future are not real. Life is but a dream.

These watch parts are frozen in time, dissected down to their brassy bones for your cufflinks, your pendants, your rings. Timepieces: Time in pieces.

Skipping

Stones

BEACH STONES
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

A little boy with freckles skips a stone. A burly man with strong arms and a kerchief tied around his head kicks a stone into the sea as he wrests a chest from the hull of his ship. A woman stands before the lighthouse, the wind whipping her hair and skirt around her body; she tosses a stone into the waves and makes a wish. But the stones' stories do not end there.

The salty waves tumble the stones, rolling each one against the sandy floor below from one continent to the next. Years and miles later, one finds its way to a distant shore. Touched by a thousand tiny fingers of nature, the stone is clutched once more by the hands of an artist who marries it to a delicate chain, a golden flower, a few links of metal, to make a timeless piece of jewelry for you.

The Most Exotic

Flower

ORCHIDS
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

Wild orchids are said to be lucky to their finder! With their curling petals and their open centers tender as lips and moist as mouths, these flowers spring up along the sides of trees, against the hard surface of a rock, in marshes and springs, and along the ground.

They symbolize love and passion perhaps because their petals are delicate and hard all at once, like a passionate kiss or true love's caress. In both silver and gold, in double or triple cascades, and paired with the stone of your choice, these flowers shine like jewels against the skin. They truly are the most exotic flower.

Heavy

Metal

        Jewelry

HARDWARE
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

Callused fingers work over the divots and rivulets in the metal. A hammer chinks loudly against it. The sound of a drill buzzing away in the distance is muffled by your protective ear plugs. A metal mask protects the face of your partner from the scorching blue light of the blow torch she is using beside you. Saws snore jaggedly through lumber. Metal rubs electrically together.

The simultaneous edge and flair of these hardware pieces are mechanical, industrial, cold and hot at once. For when you know you're fierce enough, or for when you want to be.

Lights! Copper!

Color!

SPECTRUM
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

Long ago, people believed that rainbows connected earth to heaven as a bowed bridge of color and light and the gods cast down the slope of this brilliant bridge tiny stones. These stones gathered up all the vibrant colors they found in the rainbow as they tumbled to the earth. The people who found them polished them up and held them dear for they were now the eyes of the gods, the ears to the unknown.

It is believed these stones spark creativity and align the chakras of the body, bringing peace and inspiration to their bearers. Suspended by rings of oxidized copper, the metal of Mother Earth, this line is like your personal bridge to the heavens. Celebrate in color with these technicolor trinkets.

Reflections of the

light

CHANDELIER
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

Crystals were once believed to be god-hewn icicles that would never melt, a focal point of power which was difficult to carve from the stone and mineral walls where they were found. When Ravenscroft, a glassmaker in the seventeenth century, discovered a way to make glass that could easily be shaped and cut, crystals earned a new life in the form of glass prisms.

Glass is amorphous, both constantly liquid and solid all at once, it is the combination of earth and water. Carried by red-hot winds, the sand melted into the glass provides a focal point for light, for the human eye, for this necklace. Hanging around your neck, this vintage chandelier prism pendant will certainly attract attention: Like unmelting icicles from the gods.

Keepers of

Whispers

and Secrets

SKELETON KEYS
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

This skeleton key is not just any skeleton key. It is a talisman much like those used by the Romans when such keys as these were first created. Doors and gateways never need remain closed to you, for this charmed necklace holds the key to unlocking the secrets you seek.

Wear it around your neck to learn the secrets of your own heart. Press to your forehead to unlock your memories. Hang it above your door to ease a transition from one life to another—just as the Romans did. Release yourself with this keeper of whispers and secrets. This bearer of openings and closings. This talisman of doorways.

Simply.

    Stones

FLOATING STONES
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

The dime-sized fairy unfurls her butterfly wings in the morning sunlight, and kicks her petal-clad feet against the blade of grass, catapulting herself into air. She flies through the sky above a landscape of brightly colored flowers. Eyeing her target, she swoops down toward the ground and reaches for the object, cradling it like a boulder in the delicate curve of her pinhead fingers. In her hands, this single drop of dew dwarfs the tiny fairy, but she's stronger than she looks.

With a twinkle of sunshine and a twitter of fairy magic, the drop solidifies in the fairies hands into a shimmering, glittering semi-precious stone. She laughs as she flings the stone into the bead glass of a certain jewelry artist before flying away to find another dew drop on which to weave her magic spell.

Raw, Round, and

Rigid

ROUNDELLE
Click Here to see the entire line in our online shop.

They say labradorite symbolizes both the sun and the moon as it glitters palely in the cool mirror light of the moon, and fiercely in the orange glow of a candle flame. It can draw out your intuition; make your dreams come true. They say amazonite is the stone of balance, tempering the masculine and feminine principles in its wearer.

It is the stone of calmness, and sharpens the clarity of your dreams Once upon a time, people thought of the sun as a male god who rode his chariot of fire across the sky, and the moon a woman who cycled through life in the black blanket of night. Masculine and feminine. Merged in silver.