Jewelry Inspiration: Unusual Mounts

The Carrotbox is a site dedicated to all those wonderful rings made of glass, lucite, resin, plastic, jade, wood, bakelite, metal, and even stone. Alice Matsumoto from Vancouver, BC, Canada has a ring shop and has kindly given us permission to inspire our jewelry lovers at Sheffield with her discoveries. In this post, Alice focuses on sculptural rings.

These rings are more than just a pretty face(t).

Look closely and you'll see it's what's inside that's most interesting. Forgoing conventional mounting, Germany's Mirjam Dreher drills the silver right into the stones.

 

Bonus

Italy's Ops! Objects also has somewhat unconventional gemstone rings. Their Ops!Forever (pictured) and Ops!Rock rings feature colorful polycarbonate bands and either a cz or Swarovski stone. 

Even more jewelry:

• Erstwhile Jewelry (New York) - antique engagement
• H+H (UK) - nail jewels
• Jenny Bird (Ontario) - gold tassels

Sheffield School began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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