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Jewellery that moves: inside our interactive designs
A brooch you can wear is one thing. A brooch you can play with is another object entirely — and once we made the first one, there was no going back.
It started in 2017
We had been cutting acrylic since 2015, and everything we made was beautiful and completely still. Then we made the first piece with a mechanism inside, and it changed what we thought this material could do.
Today the interactive designs are our flag. Switch it on, spin it, change the colours, change the flowers, or move your necklace into your favourite position.
What "interactive" actually means here
It is not a marketing word. Each family works in a different way:
- Clementine the Chameleon — she changes colour when you move her, the way the real ones do
- The interactive oven — the door opens, and there is something roasting inside
- Open and close — pieces with a hinge, hiding something until you decide otherwise
- Peek a boo — a window, a curtain, and whatever is behind it
- Light up — exactly what it sounds like
- Move it — necklaces you can pose, and repose whenever you feel like it
- Flower vase — a vase you fill yourself
- Inserts — the same piece, a different scene, as often as you like
See all the interactive designs →
Why a flat sheet is the hard part
Acrylic arrives as a flat sheet. Everything that moves in one of our pieces has to be built out of flat layers, stacked and joined so that they hold, turn or slide without coming apart in a coat pocket.
That is why an interactive design takes longer than a still one. A piece can use up to 40 colours and 70 separate parts, each cut from its own sheet, painted by hand and glued layer by layer. Then the moving ones get tested until they move the way they should.
Yes, the laser has a name. She is called Bertha Sparkles. The whole story is here →
Why we only make a few
Because a pair of hands can only do so much in a fortnight. Most designs are made in runs of 10 to 35 pieces, and a collection opens for ten hours before we start making what was ordered. That is not a scarcity trick — it is how many hours there are.
Where to start
If you have never had one, the interactive collection is the place to look. And if you would rather browse by what a piece is about than by how it works, there is a theme for that.
