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Entries in The Carrotbox (21)

Friday
Jan042013

Jewelry Inspiration: Unusual Mounts

AuthorGuest Blog DateFriday, January 4, 2013 at 9:00AM

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.

 

 

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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:

 

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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    Tuesday
    Dec182012

    This Jewelry Designer Puts Sculpture (Literally) at Your Fingertips

    AuthorGuest Blog DateTuesday, December 18, 2012 at 9:00AM

    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.

    For those of you who are extremely married.

    You're looking at Sculpturings by Rebecca Rose, an artist who splits her time between Florida and California. See many more in her gallery!

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    Before the over-the-top wedding ring, you might want this over-the-top engagement ring. The legs of the man on bended knee are meant to slip around your finger! By Japan's Lucie.

    Even more jewelry:

     

     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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    Friday
    Nov302012

    Ahoy, Matey: Look What Jewelry Designers Are Making with Barnacles

    AuthorGuest Blog DateFriday, November 30, 2012 at 10:00AM

    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 jewelry from the sea.

    Engraved barnacles! Whenever I say "barnacle," I feel like I'm saying "bare knuckle" with some indeterminate accent. And it's weird because barnacles sorta kinda look like knucklebones. But knucklebones aren't even from knuckles, they're from ankles, and sheep ankles, at that. They're what people once used to play jacks. Anyway, as I was saying: engraved barnacles! See UK jeweler Jane Layton for more.

    Bonus

    The cast silver "Black Diamond Barnacle Ring" by Los Angeles jeweler Kristen Dorsey is set with black or champagne diamonds.

    Even more jewelry:

     

     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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    Thursday
    Nov152012

    Jewelry Inspiration: Ice Ice Baby

    AuthorGuest Blog DateThursday, November 15, 2012 at 9:00AM

    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 some icy ring visions.

    What lurks beneath the surface of Lake Vostok? Belgian artist Lien Hereijgers imagines the goings-on in the sub-glacial Antarctic lake, which lies approximately 4,000 metres below a sheet of ice. And I thought my room was cold.

     

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    Let's bring things back up to the surface, where there's nice things like oxygen. This "iceberg" ring is one of several icy pieces by Sicilian-born, Ibiza-based Sara Divita.

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    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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    Friday
    Nov022012

    Metal and Mesh Blend in Chic Jewelry Collections

    AuthorGuest Blog DateFriday, November 2, 2012 at 9:00AM

    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 wonderful metal work.

    Are you feeling this ring? You should be — it's the "tactile" ring by UK jeweller Carrie Dickens.

     

    Check out her gallery for lots of interesting, organic metalwork.

     

     

     

     

    Bonus

    For more draping metal rings, see Brooklyn's Semi Jewels (Ren Ariel Sano), who likes to "emphasize the tactile quality of the materials."

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    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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