Cool necklaces...

[adorefaith]

Margaret Solow's wabi-sabi necklace...

i started a general thread for beautiful rings and i love it...people have been posting the most amazing stuff...
so i thought it was about time we did the same thing for necklaces

post pieces you love...think are interesting...secretly covet...etc

maybe you make your own...want to show your latest necklace purchase...
or maybe you just think a particular necklace is fabulous....let's see.!

i love the idea of this..beautiful..

they seem so serene and unique..

This piece was inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Wabi-Sabi.

Wabi-Sabi is the beauty of things imperfect...it is a beauty of things modest and humble...it is a beauty of things unconventional.

[FONT=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif]Wabi-Sabi reflects the natural beauty of things found in Nature; simple, imperfect, incomplete things.

Each necklace or bracelet is made with a piece of free form sterling silver, created by dropping pure molten silver into water. Like things in nature, no two are alike. The Wabi-Sabi piece is strung on a highly durable red cord. The red string borrows from Buddist and Kabalistic traditions, and will bring the wearer good luck and protection.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif]http://nightingalejewelry.com/wabisabi.html[/FONT]

 

[adorefaith]

i found this online tonight and thought it was SO cool...i want one..

ALTER hanger necklace

Alter custom made upside down hanger necklaces are back in stock!
Now Available in clean sterling silver or dark oxidized sterling silver.
$85.00/Free shipping for phone orders, call: 718.784.8818

alterbrooklyn
http://alterbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2008/02/alter-exclusive-hanger-necklace.html

 

[adorefaith]

anatomical heart necklace

curiobot

Heart-shaped jewelry is getting predictable and tiresome. This literal take on the phrase "wear your heart on your sleeve" is abstract enough so as to distance itself from gross internal organ imagery... and at the same time, still very obviously resembles a human heart. Cheeky and pretty. A perfect gift for the scientist, biologist, doctor, or nurse in the family. Sterling silver.

http://www.curiobot.net/pages/Anatomical_Heart_Necklace.html

 

[adorefaith]

this is amazing...

speckled quail egg pendant

Speckled Quail Egg Pendant
Lined with 23k Gold Leaf, this necklace casts a warm glow from within.
Pendant hangs from 18 inch 14 karat gold chain. Made from actual Japanese Quail eggs, they vary slightly in color and size - approximately 1 inch.. The entire shell has been coated in plastic for strength.

http://stephaniesimek.com/wearables/index.htm

 

[adorefaith]

piano key necklace..

Piano Keys don't typically evoke thoughts of delicate, hand-crafted necklaces laden with intricate sketches, but for jewelry designer Derek Cruz, of Black Sheep & Prodigal Sons, vintage ivory piano keys proved the perfect canvas for his latest collection: a limited-edition line of necklaces made exclusively for BBlessing in New York. Cruz used the keys (all pre-ban and taken from defunct pianos, so no worries about the origins of your ornament) to develop a five-piece collection that truly tells a story:
"After weighing the words "Black Sheep & Prodigal Sons" for some time, their blatant reference to outsiders and men seeking redemption caused a greater alien to rear its head—an only daughter among favored sons. Quiet and stern, she seeks no grandeur. With her are the bees, heralds of our awful stewardship of the world. These are the friends she keeps. Deprived of guidance, our daughter enters a hero's journey..."
Cruz adds that there are five visual chapters in the short story, three are currently available at BBlessing, and the final two are still to come.
Cruz's tale was inspired by a vintage portrait of a little Hungarian girl in a black dress and, of course, bees. A self-proclaimed bee buff (he's a member of a Beekeeper's Association), Cruz was fascinated by the current disappearance of these summertime stingers by the hundreds of thousands. The two characters and their story-line are all depicted on their own key—each one inlayed with ebony and 14k gold, blackened bezel in sterling silver; each hangs from an adjustable blackened sterling chain. Each piece comes wrapped in a beautiful handmade linden wood "book box" (made in the Carpathian mountains, with wood joints only, no nails or glue.
Derek Cruz of Black Sheep & Prodigal Sons Bendición Collection necklaces, $550 each, and is available at BBlessing, 181 Orchard Street (at Stanton Street); 212-378-8005.

http://www.refinery29.com/object_lesson/taking_notes.php?topcategory=shopping_news

 

[adorefaith]

twin silver keys by surface to air

http://www.bblessing.com/shop/47054.html

stainless steel keys by surface to air

http://www.bblessing.com/shop/46647.html

 

[masquerade]

I adore the anatomical heart necklace

 

[Lamia]

^^I love those silver keays.I have similar ones.

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

Lovely choices, Adorefaith! Great thread, too...

A few necklaces I thought were lovely...


Chronicles of Never

Lady Grey


Andy Farrow

Iosselliani

Lisa Levine

Ligia Dias

sources: kabiri.co.uk & Refinery29

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

A few more...

Les Fleurs

Ach Ach Liebling

Wired

Daughter of the Sun

BMF Jewelry

Alisha Louise

sources: french touche, chocos, and stars & infinite darkness

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

More..

B Jewelry

Ema Takahashi

AH Jewelry

AH Jewelry
...There is something very Studio 54/Halston/Elsa Peretti about these..
probably why I absolutely adore them..

Amenda Tate

Bethany Cocco

source: stars & infinite darkness

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

Last batch... I promise...

I'm rly loving chokers @ the moment for some reason...

Vintage

Vintage

Vintage

Veronica Riley Martens

Sophia Raja Jewelery

sources: day-lab & stars & infinite darkness

 

[chaneladdict]

I Looove the Ah ones and the quail egg one!!! thanks for sharing

 

[adorefaith]

don't hide wiw...you can post forever.!
thank you for posting...

i love so many of those...the 'Ach Ach Liebling' pendant with the hand is particularly compelling....so beautiful...do you have any more info on that piece.?

you reminded me of another one i love [and still want to try to make at home]..

by lanyard...

oaknyc

 

[softgrey]

great thread....so many lovely things posted here...

 

[totah]

great thread
love the Iosselliani nicklace.

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

You're welcome, Adorefaith...

1890s Vulcanite + R.G. Watch Chain Necklace

source: eriebasin

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

I completely missed your question, Adorefaith...
My apologies..
To answer -
About the designer...

Ach Ach Liebling | USA

Wordsmith, plasticsmith and all-around bricoleur, Joanna Petrone sells her hand-fabricated jewelry under the company name Ach Ach Liebling (which means "oh oh darling" in German). Born and raised in downtown Manhattan, Joanna migrated to California to attend Stanford, where she wrote a thesis on lesbian pulp fiction of the 1950s and graduated with a degree in English Literature. An impassioned reader and writer still, Joanna amuses herself by inserting language jokes and games and storybook allusions into her jewelry works, sometimes by nature and sometimes by design.
A runaway art project involving plastics and paperback book covers was the impetus behind Joanna's first experimental jewelry line. A hearty stint researching and experimenting with the processes and materials led to Joanna to developed the handsome, durable line of plastic pendants that are now a mainstay of Ach Ach Liebling.
In addition to hand-fabricated plastics and printing processes, Joanna uses metal, wood, lucite, celluloid, often incorporating vintage materials into her work. She takes inspiration from old postcards, Fassbinder movies, zoos, Victorian children's books, Antarctica, 19th c. naturalist field guides and ornithology handbooks, deep sea exploration, cities, and candy.
A perennial student, Joanna is currently learning metalsmithing at the Revere Jewelry Academy in San Francisco.

*The necklace itself -

Hangs on 18" of red brass chain. Pendant is hand-sawn from plastic and print is protected from the elements by a thin resin layer. Portrait is approx. 1" tall.

source: stars & infinite darkness

Best bit - the necklace is only $36!

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

Today's findings...

by designers Frans van Nieuwenborg and Martijn Wegman (made in 1974!)

by designer Monica Castiglioni

by designer Claudy Jongstra

source: moss

 

[ChrissyM]

what a great variety of things being posted in here

if i stumble across anything exceptional I'll be sure to come and post it in here