A series in solid silver

Architecture, worn.

Cities carve faces into their walls so that someone keeps watch. Columns hold, caryatids carry, masks guard the door. Seven rings take these forms from stone and bring them to the hand.

Every piece begins with a reference: a building, a figure, a fragment seen on a street or in a book. These seven come straight from architecture. Each one keeps what makes its source recognizable, the volume, the ornament, the gesture, and turns it into something you can wear.

  1. A broken fluted stone column on its moulded base.
    Stone · column
    The Last Column Ring in solid 925 sterling silver.
    Silver · The Last Column

    I

    The column

    The first idea of architecture: one line that holds everything above it. In a ruin, it is often the last thing still standing.

    The Last Column

    A fluted shaft, a fractured edge, and a face that emerges from the stone, as if the monument had kept the memory of those who once stood before it.

    $430 · Solid 925 sterling silver

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  2. A carved stone console with a woman’s head, braids and a garland of roses.
    Stone · caryatid
    Caryatid Ring in solid 925 sterling silver.
    Silver · Caryatid

    II

    The caryatid

    A woman carved into the building, carrying its weight. Ornament and support at once: the structure has a face.

    Caryatid

    A face crowned with braids, held in a garland of roses, rising from a scroll console. She does not decorate the structure. She holds it.

    $399 · Solid 925 sterling silver

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  3. A female figure emerging from acanthus leaves on the facade of the Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid.
    Stone · figure in the ornament
    Origin of Venus Ring in solid 925 sterling silver.
    Silver · Origin of Venus

    III

    The figure in the ornament

    On some facades a body grows out of the stone itself: a figure above, leaves and scrolls below, as if it were still becoming.

    Origin of Venus

    A female figure rises from an organic structure of curves and acanthus. Beauty before it takes its final shape.

    $385 · Solid 925 sterling silver

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  4. A carved stone face in a helmet with a large spiral scroll, above a doorway.
    Stone · mascaron
    Threshold Guardian Ring in solid 925 sterling silver.
    Silver · Threshold Guardian

    IV

    The mascaron

    A carved face placed above a door or a window to watch who comes in. Some wear helmets. All of them keep guard.

    Threshold Guardian

    A face emerging from volutes and reliefs, like a fragment of an old portal. It marks a boundary: between what you know and what lies ahead.

    $430 · Solid 925 sterling silver

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  5. A pointed gothic window with stone tracery of quatrefoils around a central ring.
    Stone · tracery
    Soul Epiphany Ring in solid 925 sterling silver.
    Silver · Soul Epiphany

    V

    The tracery

    In a gothic window the stone is cut so fine that it turns into lace, and the light passes through it.

    Soul Epiphany

    A serene face appears behind a gothic veil of stone. A presence revealed by the very thing that covers it.

    $499 · Solid 925 sterling silver

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  6. A calm carved face framed by flowing hair, scrolls and small wings.
    Stone · mask
    Catabasis Ring in solid 925 sterling silver.
    Silver · Catabasis

    VI

    The mask

    Around 1900, facades filled with calm faces framed by hair that turns into scrolls and small wings.

    Catabasis

    A face suspended between light and shadow, framed by flowing relief. It takes its name from the Greek descent inward that comes before every change.

    $399 · Solid 925 sterling silver

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  7. The laurel-crowned marble head of Julius Caesar by Nicolas Coustou, Tuileries Garden, Paris.
    Stone · portrait bust
    Anatomy of Power Ring in solid 925 sterling silver.
    Silver · Anatomy of Power

    VII

    The portrait bust

    Rome crowned its statues with laurel: a sign of victory, discipline and honor.

    Anatomy of Power

    The laurel stays; the skin is taken away. Muscles and tendons show the architecture beneath the face. The victory here is over oneself.

    $425 · Solid 925 sterling silver

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Architecture is made to last. So is solid silver.

Every ring is made to order in 1–2 weeks, in solid 925 sterling silver, and comes with its certificate of authenticity. Designed, sculpted and made in the U.S.

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Image credits: the facade of the Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, photo by Héctor Gómez Herrero (CC BY-SA 3.0); Julius Caesar by Nicolas Coustou, Tuileries Garden, Paris, photo by Roland Godefroy (CC BY-SA 3.0), both cropped and toned. The other reference images were created by Aurea Nova for this page.

The seven rings

Cities carve faces into their walls so that someone keeps watch. Columns hold, caryatids carry, masks guard the door. Seven rings take these forms from stone and bring them to the hand.