Living City · Series I
London Collection
Where gold is asked to prove itself. Seven centuries of the hallmark, a thousand years of ceremony, struck into one city.
Crowned and Kept
51.51° N, 0.13° W
London
MMXXVI
London has crowned its queens at Westminster for nearly a thousand years, the weight of gold lowered onto one head. On medieval Cheapside the goldsmiths kept their rows, and at Goldsmiths' Hall precious metal has been assayed since 1327: the hallmark is a London word. After 1666, Wren raised a baroque city over the old guild streets, a skyline built for procession.
The work for London is made and hand-finished in Istanbul, where the guild keeps its bench. Each piece carries its record of provenance, struck in the spirit of the assay: proof that travels with the gold. These are objects made for the day itself, a veil on its hook, a mother's hands at a daughter's hair, and kept long after, passed with the record to whoever comes next. A wedding is where a lineage begins.
The Pieces
XI pieces · XI available
The Kensington Earrings
Two squares of evening blue, each held in four claws inside its own burst of ...
The Lantern Necklace
A pear of deep red held where the light gathers. Around it the gold flares in...
The Lantern Ring
A lantern for the hand. A pear of deep red held in fine claws, ringed by a sl...
The Lantern Earrings
Two lanterns for the dusk. Each ear carries a pear of deep red inside a slim ...
The Kensington Necklace
A stone the colour of a London evening just after the rain. The sapphire is c...
The Kensington Ring
A square of evening blue for the hand. The sapphire sits deep in four claws, ...
The Circlet
A crown does not need peaks to rule. The Circlet carries one unbroken ring of...
The Ivy Ring
Ivy holds what it loves. On the old walls of London it keeps whole houses, an...
The Laurel Ring
Before crowns were gold they were leaves. The Laurel carries a frond of them ...
The Windsor Ring
A rope of gold, twisted the whole way round, carrying one oval of royal blue ...
The Coronet Ring
Not every crown asks for a throne. The Coronet raises a single blue marquise ...