Objects Beautiful

07/08/2026

Objects Beautiful’s collection is determined by beauty. Beauty is our focus and what we campaign for. Currently, we collaborate with about 40 art-jewellers from different parts of the world, covering upcoming talent and established ones, all of whom create distinctively beautiful art.

Brooches form a large part of our collection. Popular objects during the Victorian Era, Art Nouveau and Art Deco, their presence quietened until the end of the 20th Century. Their popularity resurged with many art-jewellers seeking a larger canvas for expression. These days it has become a leading object within the discipline, designed and enjoyed by all genders.

We are mostly interested in contemporary worn art, open to the artist to interpret which parts of the human body they are most inspired to create for. Open World is the theme that characterises this creative world of art-jewellers we collaborate with. Often we refer back to the phrase by Frank Gehry - “I take it where it goes” - a thoughtful expression capturing that engagement with an open process where the end result is often surprising.

The neuroscientist Semir Zeki, a world expert on the neural correlates of the experience of beauty, claims that talented artists are led by their visual brain and profound thinking. Crucially, they know how to proceed and when to stop. The moment when they realise that all has fallen into place is the moment of beauty. It is quite clear that in the arts, beauty is not a singular idea. There are numerous options to go through this evolutionary path, creating this Open World.

1. Ahmi Yu. Brooch, A Diving Bird.
2. Jenny Jansson. Brooch, Midsummer’s Day
3. Pei Wu. Brooch, Dynamic Balance #2
4. Gitte Nygard. Brooch, Blå Gople
5. Ketli Tiitsar. Brooch, Side by Side 3
6. Katja Prins. Brooch, Cocoonbrooch
7. Ela Bauer. Brooch, Pixel Series
8. Katja Prins. Brooch, (In) - Somnium
9. Hea Lim Shin. Brooch, I painted rain which became raindrops 17
10. Mei Fang Chiang. Brooch, The Other Shore #2

07/08/2026

06/08/2026

IN CONVERSATION with THE ARTISTS
A vivid discussion including an interesting Q&A, with four of the art-jewellers out of the twelve exhibited at Objects Beautiful’s latest event in July. At The Office, in Fitzrovia, as they happen to live locally.   

Here are few glimpses capturing the essence of the recorded discussion, while its full length will be found soon in our Blog at 
www.Objectsbeautiful.com

Following the seating’s order:
Liana Pattihis Liana Pattihis
Kayo Saito KAYO SAITO jewellery
Inca Starzinsky
Margo Misiak-Orlovic Margo Misiak-Orlovic

Yael Reisner was moderating



IN CONVERSATION with THE ARTISTS.

Q: In what way has your original country influenced your work, if at all? And would you have got to this point if you’d stayed at home?

Following the seating’s order:
Liana Pattihis Liana Pattihis
Kayo Saito KAYO SAITO jewellery
Inca Starzinsky
Margo Misiak-Orlovic Margo Misiak-Orlovic

Yael Reisner was moderating
Question from Katia Muscara Katia Muscarà



IN CONVERSATION with THE ARTISTS

Q: In what way has your original country influenced your work, if at all? And would you have got to this point if you’d stayed at home? (PT.2)

Following the seating’s order:
Liana Pattihis Liana Pattihis
Kayo Saito KAYO SAITO jewellery
Inca Starzinsky
Margo Misiak-Orlovic Margo Misiak-Orlovic

Yael Reisner was moderating
Question from Katia Muscara Katia Muscarà



IN CONVERSATION with THE ARTISTS.

Q: Jewellery as a piece of communication. Pieces can communicate at different stages of intricacy or cleverness even, what is your take on that?

Following the seating’s order:
Liana Pattihis Liana Pattihis
Kayo Saito KAYO SAITO jewellery
Inca Starzinsky
Margo Misiak-Orlovic Margo Misiak-Orlovic

Yael Reisner was moderating
Question from Peter Cook



IN CONVERSATION with THE ARTISTS.

Q: Jewellery as a piece of communication. Pieces can communicate at different

23/04/2026

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.

23/04/2026

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

18/04/2026

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.

02/04/2026

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.