Objects Beautiful (2026)

03/06/2026

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.

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.

26/03/2026

Our series of studio visits continues, this time with artists from our show ‘Open World’ at FRAME Works are now available on our eShop.

Next up, we feature Inca Starzinsky

“I visited at her studio in East London, in November 2024.
She told me that she started her creative path in graphic design. After exploring different paths over several years, she settled on jewellery making after a three year part-time course back in 2019 at K2 Jewellery Academy, London, where she was focused on finding a way to realise her designs and love for paint and colour in sculptural forms.

Thus, by 2022 she embarked on new work, created in her studio. I believe that Starzinsky’s different design experiences contributed to her choice of materials and techniques. Composing precious and non-precious metals alongside textiles, creates fascinating forms that are super light and delightful.

Her Float collection, which consists of unusual, sculptural brooches, necklaces, rings and earrings, sees voluminous metal magically covered in flowing paint. Layers and lines of bright colours beautifully matched and wonderfully controlled, which is one of her expertise.

For the exhibition in Munich earlier this month, alongside the Float series, Starzinsky re-explored some ideas from early on in her jewellery journey, in a collection she calls Flow. These pieces are compositions of silver and neoprene, where she uses line, surface area and colour to create light and flattering neck pieces, rings and brooches.

Inca draws from personal memories associated with emotive words and phrases, such as ‘cloudy days’, ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘XO’, ‘love’, and so on, to create a richness and aesthetic grounding for her collections.”

1 & 2- Inca in her studio
3- Selecting work
4- Flow ring in Munich
5, 6 & 7- Flow brooch

25/03/2026

Our studio visit series continues, this time with artists from our show ‘Open World’ at FRAME Works are now available on our eShop.

Next up, we feature Gitte Nygaard.

“I visited Gitte in Amsterdam back in November 2023, and have no doubt that she is one of the most important active jewellers in the contemporary jewellery world. She has won important awards in The Netherlands, where she lives, and in Denmark where she was born and now also teaches. A hugely talented, modest lady, who, unlike most of us, does not have an account on Instagram to promote her work— out of principle. Please instead, visit her website gittenygaard.com

As she describes carefully, measuring her words, Nygaard, aims to connect people to each other and the natural world through her jewellery. Each piece carries with it an insight to both, personal and geological histories, thus creating a respect to the objects surrounding us, seeking to highlight the intimate, often overlooked bond between humanity and nature. It is fascinating to observe how she, steadily and consistently, carves this intention into her different creative processes.

Beyond the originality of her concepts and ideas, Nygaard arrives at stunning aesthetics in each of her pursuits. For some time now she has explored second-hand textiles and natural sponges, as seen in the brooches, rings, and ear-studs that we exhibited in Munich, and now on our eShop. The 3 brooches, can be worn showing either side A or B, textiles that are clasped together most elegantly by silver, internal frames. These brooches have a delicate and fresh appearance, entitled after the large, shallow sandbank in the North Sea called Dogger Bank. Like the sea, they remain porous and unstable, with traces of use and exposure becoming evident; carrying memory not as image, but as material presence.”

1- Gitte in her kitchen
2- Her studio
3- Dogger Bank brooches at FRAME, Munich earlier this month
4 & 5- Dogger Bank, side A and B
6- Porous Ring IV
7- Making a selection
8 & 9- Trying on Gitte’s work during my visit
10- Gitte’s rings. The Binchotan ring- 90% carbon -perhaps a diamond substitute?

24/03/2026

Our series of studio visits continues, this time with the artists from our show ‘Open World’ at FRAME Works are now available on our eShop.

Next up, we feature Carina Shoshtary.

“I visited in a small town not far from Munich in November 2023, during a hectic week of train journeys to visit 8 artists’ studios, from Munich to Mannheim.

I had been drawn to her colourful, unique work in March earlier that year during my first visit to MJW. I soon discovered that she is also involved with creating magical masks, and other responses to the body, which we can see wonderfully on her personal instagram and through a popular account she founded and curates

When visiting her studio she showed me a lot of her earlier pieces, work she’s opted to keep. Still immediately evident was the skill, artistic prowess and an expertise in conveying her poetic thoughts and ideas. All of this was clear in the breathtaking and most enigmatic hair combs, ‘Grief’ and ‘Hope’, she created last year for our series ‘Rocks & Locks’, and bought by the Auckland Museum a few months later.

This year for our exhibition at FRAME, at the Messe in Munich, she produced new, stunning work in response to our exhibition’s title ‘Open World’. I asked the 11 participating artists to refer to a well-known quote from Frank Gehry’s description of the creative process: ‘you take it where it goes’. The idiosyncrasy of Carina’s work was evident and fresh.”

In some of Carina’s own words, she tells us about two pieces we exhibited earlier this month:

‘Lace for the Heart’
“When the heart breaks, do we cover the cracks, shielding what remains so it won’t shatter further, or do we leave it open, letting it breathe and bleed freely?”
She has woven the sea shells, imbued with a special memory, into a protective mesh. She says, “Is it armour, or delicate lace? Perhaps it is both…”

Gifted Carina sums up poetically, for the work ‘Anima and Animus’, “Crawling forward, I no longer wait. The house remains open, inhaling absence, exhaling memory, embodying hope, still very much alive.”

12/03/2026

Our series of studio visits continues, this time with the artists from our show ‘Open World’ at FRAME Though Munich is behind us, the pieces are now available on our eShop.

First, we start with the established artist and educator Deganit Stern Schocken.

“I first met a long time before I founded the gallery. At first, we were linked because of an architectural connection, but this acquaintance soon turned into friendship when I visited her studio in Herzliya, where we could have kept talking into the night!

Deganit’s studio is in the same home she grew up in: a lovely, modernist house north of Tel Aviv, which, in the past, had a garden containing her mother’s own sculptures.

In March 2023, just before I founded Objects Beautiful, we travelled to Munich together to experience Schmuck and . Exposure to this new world turned me into an art-jewellery aficionado and this discipline soon became a big part of my curatorial collection, framed within my campaign for beauty.

During this trip, Deganit was publicising her book ‘How Many Is One’ (Arnoldsche Art Publishers). It was a highly influential evening for me; thanks to Dirk Allgaier who was behind the magical gathering.”

Deganit is a jeweller, designer, artist, teacher, and curator. She founded and headed the Jewelry Design Department in Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art between 1998 – 2007.

Stern Schocken’s work often engages with the socio-political situation and conflict in her homeland.

In ‘Caution, Sharp Edges’, drink cans collected by herself near the Kalandia military checkpoint, in the West Bank, are used to create precious pendants and wall pieces. She believes in the transformative power of art to inspire recognition and change.

Deganit’s work is representative, allowing the viewer to discover these layers in time— be it through the fragility of porcelain to hold an essence of the dead and a sense of loss, or ready-made objects to confront the realities we see unfolding before our eyes.

‘Agonies of Peace’
‘The Reflecting Gate’
‘Grave of Face’ –all neckpieces/objects

11/03/2026

Collect and FRAME 2026
Today we’ve been reflecting on our experiences in London for at Somerset House, and Munich for FRAME at the Messe
As we depart from the intensity of these back-to-back shows, we’re looking forward to the year ahead whilst feeling thankful for the good conversations, being able to spend time with our talented artists, and all the friends, collectors and museum curators that came to visit us over the last two weeks!

Special thanks to Pei Wu
Jessica Winchcome .winchcombe.jewellery
Inca Starzinsky
Karolina Brodnicka
Michael Becker (www.beckermichael.de)
Aprol
& Bruno
for helping us build, pack, perfect and have fun at both shows

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