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☆ For Simone Brewster, It’s Hands-On
  + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Rachel Garrahan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
As part of the preparations for her first solo exhibition, held this past summer at the NOW Gallery in South London, Simone Brewster designed “Crown,” a set of wooden combs inspired by traditional African hairstyles. Six weeks later, unable to find anyone who could execute the small but complex designs, Ms. Brewster was about to give up. Then Max Lamb, a friend and fellow designer, offered his workshop, which had the band saw, pillar drills and sanding machines she needed to make them herself. “It went from being this really stressful thing, because no one would make them for me, to something really fun,” said the designer, 40, who has picked up a variety of craft skills since she studied woodworking at school. “Once I know I’m going to make something, it’s not stressful for me because I know I can do it.”
Persons: Simone Brewster, ”, Omar, —, Brewster, Max Lamb, “ Organizations: NOW, “ Locations: South London
☆ In London, an Elevated but Edgy Jewelry Style
  + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Rachel Garrahan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In 2006, Ms. Martin established her namesake brand, which is focused on opulent, sculptural, genderless pieces in gold. Since then, she has weathered the expensive business of operating a fine jewelry business through recessions, lockdowns and other challenges to run a self-funded business with a showroom in a former grain warehouse in the Clerkenwell neighborhood of London. She is a walking advertisement for her latest venture, HMp (or Hannah Martin Pierced), a line of piercing jewelry and a piercing service. Overall, she hopes it will transform what is often a back-alley tattoo parlor-style experience to one that is elevated through handcrafted gold jewelry and premium customer care. “I couldn’t find one that wasn’t really ugly, so I thought I’d better make one,” Ms. Martin, 43, said during a recent interview at her Brutalist-inspired studio.
Persons: Martin, Hannah Martin, I’d, Ms, ”, “ Locations: Clerkenwell, London
☆ ‘Translators’ Help a Jewelry Designer to Keep Creating
  + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Rachel Garrahan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
LONDON — On an upper floor in Romilly Saumarez Smith’s 18th-century house in the Stepney neighborhood of east London is a small closet that the Smiths understand was used to powder the wigs of the home’s original owners. Now the 30-square-foot space is packed with a jeweler’s bench and other equipment, racks full of tools, piles of notes and sketches, and the works-in-progress of her intricate, lyrical creations. But one recent afternoon, it was not Ms. Saumarez Smith but the jeweler Laura Ngyou, one of Ms. Saumarez Smith’s assistants, who was working at the bench. In 2002, Ms. Saumarez Smith, now 69, was diagnosed with a rare form of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis that has left her paralyzed from the neck down, although she can speak without aids and has retained some feeling. A difficult few years followed, but then in 2010 she realized collaborations could enable her to continue bringing her creative imaginings to life.
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