Nichola Farnan and Ben Chaplin are driven by a desire to see how their “jewellery lives on other people”
As London-based designers Nichola Farnan and Ben Chaplin sought a way to weld their creative universes together, jewellery appeared as the instinctive middle ground to combine their experiences in fine arts, fashion, and mechanics. What they wanted was to avoid “the throw-away, seasonal, gendered elements of fashion but maintain functionality,” explains Farnan. And, unlike most fine arts, to create democratic work “that is smaller, that can travel, that can take on individual meaning.
With their respective careers fully fledged, jewellery design was initially a collaborative release: “We were doing other things and it was a really fun way for us to work together. We built it personally in a way that it didn’t really owe us too much and we could do what we wanted with it,” says Chaplin. His mum, a silversmith, showed them the ropes and the rest of the craft was honed tinkering and testing products for themselves.
The duo’s design process is driven by a desire to see how their “jewellery lives on other people.” As their designs integrate into the personal realms of others, Farnan and Chaplin encourage them to document their responses through music, film, photography, and other arts.
The designers actively celebrate the well-worn aesthetic that time – and life – can bring to their pieces. One of their primary reasons for working with silver is that it “bears the marks of the process that happened to it.” As Farnan encourages, “You have to go and live your life in it for it to look like that. That’s your life completing our design which I think is the nicest thing.
For this collection, the duo collaborated with photographer Oscar Foster-Kane to capture their friends styling their jewellery through the reflection of a banged-up sheet of metal. The twisted portraits place their jewellery in a fantastical dreamscape where anyone is free to interpret their jewellery as they want. “We couldn’t be more excited by how diverse our customers are and when someone’s mum wants a piece, that’s just as cool as when some famous actor wants one.
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