Pippa's Night Collection Origin Story

On this collection, I worked with Om Prakash, the stone cutter, whom I’ve been working with for around 25 years in Jaipur. We’ve spent so many hours studying seeds and pods, looking at natural forms and how stones and the topography of stones can be worked in order to replicate these feelings that nature produces - Om and his team are very skilled at this.  

I think there’s something about the minerals and gems that are not the types of stones you usually see in jewellery, but they hold a different quality of light and a different weight and sensation with the body. I’ve always loved these blacks and greys and worked with them over the years. I think somehow with this very primal feeling of these seeds, it’s almost a prehistoric feeling – the beginning and creation of the earth. 

 I think there’s also a very protective element in these metallic, metal-based gems, where you feel a shield in a sense; to wear them, to hold them, to touch them with the hand is so comforting. When im wearing them I’m always fiddling and stroking them  , there’s something silky about them. The shapes of pods that hold life within them are just so sacred and beautiful.