Pippa’s Journal

Making Makes You Happy

It seems in the many years I have been working with artisans all over the world, that something magical happens when a thing of beauty is made.I ha...

A Mermaid's Tale

I have a painting over my bed that is made of delicious ice cream colours of soft strawberry pinks, and pistachio greens. I love this painting, and...

Pippa's Travel Diaries: Bolivia 2018

I traveled to La Paz Bolivia with my nephews Art and Theo Simondetti to both create a new collection and to document the work and the place. We a...

10 Wonderful Afghan Years

Pippa Small and Turquoise Mountain celebrate over ten years of collaboration. Turquoise Mountain supports young artisans, small businesses and...

World Economic Forum 2018

Pippa Small has designed over a dozen jewellery lines with Turquoise Mountain artisans. The most recent collaboration was with artisans in Yangon. ...

The 2018 Town & Country Jewellery Awards

We could not be prouder to have been named winner of the Green Award for Sustainability by Town & Country Magazine! With its first annual Jewe...

India & The Tibetan Ring

I am very proud to present a short film made by my talented nephews, 17-year-old twins, Art and Theo, who travelled to India with my twins and me l...

Bokja

I stumbled upon Bokja whilst exploring Beirut in June and was instantly captured by the originality and the storytelling through skilled embroidery...

Barbara Madley

In the age of the disposable, Barbara Madley finds materials in the abundance of textile detritus - discarded clothes, household linens, unfinished...

Péro

Péro means 'to wear' in Marwari, the local language of Rajasthan. Handmade with love from India, the collection designed by Aneeth Arora is inspire...

Pippa's Travel Diaries: Myanmar 2017

I have travelled many times to beautiful Myanmar, working with the Turquoise Mountain Foundation at their workshop in downtown Yangon. On my first ...

Pippa's Travel Diaries: Myanmar 2016

Flying over a carpet of forest from Bangkok to Yangon in Myanmar for my second trip with Turquoise Mountain I wondered how the country would be dig...