Objects Beautiful

Join us for our 2nd SUMMER EVENT at Objects Beautiful on Saturday 18th July, 4.30-7.30 pm.
Please DM us directly if interested.

The evolving community is dear to us - a niche in London of people who enjoy contemporary art generally, and particularly, contemporary jewellery.

We’ll talk about the growing relevance of beauty in the arts. You would be able to meet four of the 11 exhibiting artists – Margo Misiak-Orlovic, Liana Pattihis, Kayo Saito, and Inca Satrzinsky, who live in London.

We divided our collection of works by nearly forty artists into three groups, each exhibited in one of the three summer events. Shedding light on the pursuits of Yael Reisner - the founder / director / curator - and her years of campaigning for beauty, and love of beautiful objects.

We are proud of our unique international contemporary jewellery with its diverse range of narrative, materials and techniques. See you soon!

1. Necklace by Tanel Veenre
2. Brooch by Peter Machata
3. Ring by Xiaozhe Huang
4. Brooch by Liana Pattihis
5. Brooch by Jana Machatova
6. Brooch by Maria Valdma-Härm
7. Earrings by Kayo Saito
8. Brooch by Mari Ishikawa
9. Brooch by Inca Starzinsky
10. Hair Pin by Isabelle Azaïs
11. Ring by Margo Misiak-Orlovic

In London! Our first of three summer exhibitions this Thursday evening, the 18th of June! One evening only! If interested in attending please send us a DM.

Three separate events to see and try our beautiful diverse international collection.

I’ll cover Objects Beautiful collection these across three events, shedding light on my years spent pursuing beauty and my love of beautiful objects.

The first event will include the work by: Jessica Winchcombe Katja Prins .huimin Ketli Tiitsar Michaela Pegum Carina Shoshtary Ineke Otte Jewelry Design Art Peleg Mercedes Matityahu


.
Photos:
1. Peleg Matityahu
2.Carina Shoshtary 3.Jessica Winchcombe.
4. Marianne Schliwinski
5. Herman Hermsen
6.Ela Bauer
7.Katja Prins
8.Ketli Tiitsar
9.Huimin Zhang
10.Ineke Otte
& Michaela Pegum

Thank you to everyone who came to our event last Thursday! It was a lovely summer evening. We also had the pleasure of hearing from Huimin | 慧敏 about her beautiful ‘Live like a summer flower’ collection.

If you couldn’t make it last time, don’t worry. Our next summer exhibition is taking place on Sat. 18th July.

If you would like to attend, send us an email or DM.

Michael Becker is the last one we mention here and close the list of artists who participated in our show ‘Open World’ at FRAME , and his work is available on our eShop.

Michael Becker, an established and admired German jeweller, who is known to be the king of the most exquisitely solved details of his architectural, sculptural jewellery, full of depth, light and shadow, and unique movement thanks to the exceptional details again, that make his necklaces feel lighter and pleasurable to wear. That sensation is genuinely quite remarkable.

I visited Michael in his studio in Munich twice already, in November 2023, and July 2024.
A smiley lovely person, always helpful and positive, and most importantly a talented artist.

His creations have been exhibited internationally, fairly quickly early in his career, including at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His pieces are also part of esteemed collections, such as the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Colour is added to the gold by using gemstones that again the details highlight the beauty of the gold folds that hold the stones, if it’s the deep blue Lapis Lazuli, or the black and white Dolomite, or the blinging green Uwarovit which is a rare, vibrant emerald-green mineral. All beautifully composed and delightful to wear.
1. Michael Becker in his Studio.
2.selecting the objects for Objects Beautiful collection.
3. Michael always builds cardboard models of his necklaces to explore the potential dynamics, and often 3D movement.
4. One of his beautiful light and delightful necklaces.
5. & 6. Layered Brooch that enables light and shadow play.
7. Free Lapis cut ring.
8.Lapis bracelet beautifully detailed highlighting the gold folds holding the stone.
9. The bracelet with dolomites
10. The amber gold ring.

Our series of studio visits continues, with the participating artists in our show ‘Open World’ at FRAME . Works are now available on our eShop.
Michaela Pegum, who lives in Melbourne, Australia, is an artist working across the realms of sculpture, wearable, art, and performance, with her history and practice in dance and somatic, informing her material processes.
I share with michaela her belief, as described in her website, “We experience the world in wordless ways before we language it…” which is an aspect quite loaded, and in our visual world, as neuroscientists inform us, the way our brain works is that when we look at an object, we immediately know if we experience it as beautiful, or not, before any further thought is involved.
Michaela developed an evocative metal-textile blends by growing copper into velevet and organza through electroforming. The results are intriguing and incredibly beautiful. Her unique electroforming techniques with two rich textiles, velvet and organza, creating material she further mold and shape sculpturally, arriving at enigmatic outcomes that most people stop by and ask, what is that?  The first three wearable objects we see here were created for the exhibition Open World at Objects Beautiful in FRAME.
The browner brooches were created for Objects Beautiful in 2024, and the hair-pins, that looks like sticks from nature, were prepared for Rock and Locks , the hair jewellery project by Objects Beautiful in 2025.  
1. Michaela Pegum, ’Olinda’, 2012, video still from dance film, filmmaker Dave Meagher
2. Pelt Necklace 2026, velvet copper, silver, nylon coated steel thread, 330 x 70 x 30 mm
3. Pelt Brooch IV, 2026, velvet, copper, silver, steel, 107 x 40 x 30 mm (pin 85mm long)
4. Hush Necklace II 2026, velvet, copper, silver, nylon coated steel thread, 390 x 140 x 15 mm
5. -6. Familiars 2025, was a solo exhibition first exhibited in a private residence in 2025
7. Pelt Brooch I, 2024
8. Hair pin 2025.

Our series of studio visits continues, with the participating artists in our exhibition ‘Open World’ at FRAME . Works are now available on our eShop.
Michaela Pegum, who lives in Melbourne, Australia, is an artist working across the realms of sculpture, wearable, art, and performance, with her history and practice in dance and somatic, informing her material processes.
 I share with michaela her belief, as described in her website, “We experience the world in wordless ways before we language it…” which is an aspect quite loaded, and in our visual world, as neuroscientists inform us, the way our brain works is that when we look at an object, we immediately know if we experience it as beautiful, or not, before any further thought is involved.
Michaela developed an evocative metal-textile blends by growing copper into velevet and organza through electroforming. The results are intriguing and incredibly beautiful. Her unique electroforming techniques with two rich textiles, velvet and organza, creating material she further mold and shape sculpturally, arriving at enigmatic outcomes that most people stop by and ask, what is that?  The first three wearable objects we see here were created for the exhibition Open World at Objects Beautiful in FRAME.
The browner brooches were created for Objects Beautiful in 2024, and the hair-pins, that looks like sticks from nature, were prepared for Rock and Locks , the hair jewellery project by Objects Beautiful in 2025.  
 
1. Michaela Pegum, ’Olinda’, 2012, video still from dance film, filmmaker Dave Meagher
2. Pelt Necklace 2026, velvet copper, silver, nylon coated steel thread, 330 x 70 x 30 mm
3. Pelt Brooch IV, 2026, velvet, copper, silver, steel, 107 x 40 x 30 mm (pin 85mm long)
4. Hush Necklace II 2026, velvet, copper, silver, nylon coated steel thread, 390 x 140 x 15 mm
5-6. Familiars 2025, was a solo exhibition first exhibited in a private residence in 2025.  7-8. Brooches , 2024. 9-10. Hair pins, 2025

Our series of studio visits continues with artists participated in our show ‘Open World’ at FRAME , (available on our eShop).
Next up, we feature Jessica Winchcombe who is a New Zealander qualified visual artist who found jewellery her passion. She has her own studio since 2010, and quite prolific and energetic artist ever since.   
Visiting Jessica in her studio in Queensland is a wishful thinking, yet, I met her in person, along her art- jewellery three times already. Firstly, in her solo exhibition at the MJW 2023 - Lost in Translation – where she showed her iconic necklaces, made of folded colourful canvas. Next, we met at the National Portrait Gallery’s café in London, where we tried her work, and had joyful conversations about her leather necklaces, along her fun silversmith earrings.  
Jessica creates her folded necklaces from her colourful acrylic paintings on large canvases that she cuts into strips, and then fold them. A concept she applies brilliantly, and skilfully, while sometimes she adds on elegant silver hanging parts.
In time her canvas folds evolved into folded soft leather, hugging gently one’s neck, which then further developed into a third type of necklaces, based on a unique technic to thread Akoya sea pearls through the leather folds - a pearl per pocket between two folds; a beautiful new way to wear pearls, and stronger than pearls stringing.
Her new necklaces for our exhibition this year were based on a Japanese cord, that have a moving part made of  the folded acrylic on canvas along few pearls.

Our series of studio visits continues, this time with artists from our show ‘Open World’ at FRAME Works are now available on our website.
Next up, we feature Peter Machata & Jana Machatova from Bratislava, Slovakia.   machatova
Peter’s work was exhibited first in December 2023, at our first pop-up exhibition in Soho Square, while it took a bit longer to start the collaboration with Jana, his wife. My impression is that Jana opted to keep new work for her PhD thesis’ presentation.
Jana Joined in since summer 2024, when both were invited to create hair-jewellery to our Rocks and Locks project, exhibited first at Collect, London, and at Frame, IHM, Handwerk & Design, Munich, 2025.
 
My enjoyable visit in autumn 2023 at their house, and studio across its garden, was involved with an exciting public boat journey along the Danube River directly from Vienna, to Bratislava.
 
Peter’s enigmatic series of Saintly Relicse in secular context, triggers ambivalent feelings and thoughts. Fingers, body scars, or photos of few other body parts, using CNC milling machine and digital scanning, along traditional craftsmanship.
 
Jana’s work explores cultural memories, incorporating found objects, family photographs, old newspapers, and postcards, seeking bringing memories back to life.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Their brooches they enjoy creating capture different personal or societal experiences and narratives, using different techniques and skills, whereas the common element is the silver structure that creates the back pins and holds the main part at the front, an artistic element where the traditional craftsmanship shines out.