Hannah Bedford Granulated Jewellery – New at Plush Jewellery

Hannah Bedford Silver Granulated Cuff

Hannah Bedford’s gorgeous granulated jewellery can now be found at Plush Jewellery in Chichester and online at www.plushjewellery.co.uk/hannahbedford.asp.
Hannah Bedford graduated from the prestigious Birmingham School of Jewellery with a first class honours degree in 2004 and has been represented at Collect and exhibited at Origin. Her studio is at Cockpit Arts Deptford, the heart of South London’s creative community.
Hannah Bedford jewellery designs explore texture and form using the traditional processes of granulation and Keum-boo (fine gold fusing). Working in golds and silver, Hannah Bedford creates a range of women’s jewellery, from bespoke neckpieces through to delicate earrings and rings.
Collections are inspired by organic growth patterns in the natural world. Hannah Bedford uses gold fusing and granulation to create raised, textured surfaces that entwine each piece and takes great care to work on the underside of a piece. The work is often led by these technical explorations, using them to play with scale, form and contrasting precious metals to create aesthetically beautiful forms.

Hannah Bedford Granulated Silver Stud Earrings

Faith Tavender Jewellery Now Showing at Plush Jewellery

We’re very excited to be stocking the Daisy range by jeweller Faith Tavender. Faith Tavender is an established designer producing modern silver and gold jewellery for men and women. A graduate of London Guildhall University, Faith Tavender has been making high quality jewellery for more than 14 years. Faith Tavender has exhibited her collections in London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney and New York.
She draws inspiration from the jewellery of ancient Greece and the Art Deco movement, also from her travels in Europe and North Africa, and childhood memories of Tasmania. Each piece is handcrafted in her London studio using only the highest quality beads and semi-precious stones.
All pieces are traditionally hallmarked at the London Assay Office of the Goldsmiths’ Company. Faith Tavender jewellery has been featured in Marie-Claire, Arena, G.Q., Eve, Zest, Red Direct, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and Retail Jeweller.

Faith Tavender 22ct Gold Plate Daisy Stud Earrings Small 1cm in diameter

Faith Tavender Large Daisy Pendant 2cm in diameter

You can view more of Faiths’s pieces and make purchases over at http://plushjewellery.co.uk/faithtavender.asp
and directly from Plush Jewellery in Chichester.

Zelda Wong Jewellery, Now Showing at Plush Jewellery

Those of you who have been with us for a while will already know the fantastic jewellery created by Zelda Wong; those of you who are new to Plush Jewellery are in for a treat.

Zelda Wong jewellery is unique botanical silver jewellery, inspired by a variety of sources both organic and contemporary. The concept of Zelda Wong jewellery is to preserve the fragile beauty of flowers, so they become everlasting.
Sixteen years living in Yorkshire and the Midlands, Zelda Wong quickly fell in love with the English countryside and gardens. In summer everything is so lively and beautiful, but sadly English summers are often short, Zelda’s designs of botanical forms, try to capture the everlasting beauty of flowers and plants. Zelda Wong started to make delicate silver flowers during 1999, for her degree design, based on body jewellery and needed some pretty objects to accompany the pieces, so she started to use metal to make different types of flowers, such as Primula, Poppy, Daisy and Lily. As she dislikes wasting things, Zelda decided to transform the aesthetic flowers that served no purpose into wearable jewellery. A bit like flowers that self-seed and begin life again somewhere else, later becoming her ever popular Primula rage.
Zelda Wong, originally from Macau, moved to England sixteen years ago, now works in the West Midlands. She graduated with Honours in Metalwork and Jewellery at Sheffield Hallam University.
Zelda Wong set up her jewellery design business in 2004, with a grant from UK Steel Enterprise and a Loan from Prince’s Trust.

Zelda Wong Sugar Flowers Pendant in Sterling Silver

Zelda Wong Rosa Primula Stud Earrings

You can view more of Zelda’s work over at www.plushjewellery.co.uk/zeldawong.asp and view more of her collection in person at Plush Jewellery in Chichester

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Allie

Flash Jordan – now stocked at Plush Jewellery

Oh, oh, oh, how excited are we to be stocking Flash Jordan Jewellery – as excited as a small child on Christmas day, who’s already had one two many chocolates, that’s how blimmin’ excited we are.

Take a look at this quick peak of the jewellery:

Flash Jordan Drop Earrings

Flash Jordan Stud Earrings

Flash Jordan Pendant

Flash Jordan was founded by designers and jewellers Katie Britton and Neil Jordan 2001 in Derby. In the early days, alongside developing their own collection, they paid the bills working for other jewellery designers such as Shaun Leane and Johnny Rocket, mastering and producing elements of their collection. The quality of the finish on each piece of Flash Jordan Jewellery is amazing. Pop into Plush Jewellery in Chichester for a peep.

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Allie

Lots and Lots of New Things

Where has Monday gone to dear reader? One minute it was 9am and now the clock has passed five! There are a tremendous number of lovely new things to make you aware of this week.

Firstly, we’ve four brand new designers showing with us here at Plush Jewellery at the moment; Juliette Lowe, Nancy Rose Jewellery, Charlotte Verity Jewellery and Kayleigh Biggs, you can pop in to Plush Jewellery Chichester and view all this gorgeous jewellery right now, it will all be viewable online on the Plush Jewellery website in the next day or so.

Secondly, we popped up to IJL at Earls Court yesterday for a catch-up with some of our fantastic designers and to see what’s new in the way of contemporary jewellery. Keep and eye out at Plush in the not to distant future for the brand new range by the fab Collette Waudby, gorgeous rabbits and tiny wrens by Alexis Dove, stunning new Cones by Tara Kirkpatrick and we’re completely bloopingly excited that we’re soon going to be stocking brilliant jewellery by Flash Jordan – seriously, you have to see the Flash Jordan earrings, they are magnificent.

Don’t forget to put the 25th in your diary and come into Plush Chichester for our first Meet the Designer day. Kimberley Selwood has told us that she’s bringing all of her ranges with her, a perfect excuse to check out pieces you haven’t seen before.

Right, back to the grindstone.

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Allie

Sara Preisler Now Showing at Plush Jewellery Chichester and Online

Sara Preisler Ripple Necklace Sterling Silver with Peridot

Sara Preisler Sterling Silver and 24ct Gold Plate Within Pendant

We’re now showing work by the brilliant Brimingham jewellery designer Sara Preisler. We have work from two of Sara’s collections, the Sara Preisler Within Collection and the Sara Preisler Ripples Collection.

About Sara Preisler
Jewellery by Sara Preisler is essentially sculputure with a function. Each piece of jewellery in the Sara Preisler collections provokes the idea that, though each of us are based on the same model, (the human form), we are in some way unique.
The forms and textures used by Sara Preisler in each piece echo the wood carver’s chisel, in repeating bold and minimal forms, she often reveals defined sculptural elements; carved identities, each in their own right echoing the wearer as being in their own irreplaceable essence.
To Sara Preisler, the importance of her collections is in expressing the individual wearer’s spirit and beauty, allowing ownership of something unique and especially part of every one.

View and purchase Sara’s work over on the Plush Jewellery website http://plushjewellery.co.uk/sarapreisler.asp or if you are in the Chichester area pop into Plush Jewellery Chichester to see the work in person.

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Allie

Bespoke Wedding Bands

Bespoke Wedding Bands

We’ve joined forces with a team of wonderful engagement and wedding band specialists based in The Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham to bring you an incredible selection of wedding rings.

Why do we believe that our wedding bands are the best wedding bands available?
Well, here’s the science bit:
These bands are manufactured from seamless tube, this makes the metal more compact and flawless resulting in no porosity, a higher resistance to scratching and consistent profile shapes.
The traditional issues associated with white gold have been resolved in these rings by producing a white alloy which removes the need to rhodium-plate the rings. Only the highest quality materials with high palladium content are used. The white gold used in these rings has been officially tested and certified as Premium Grade 1 metal by Birmingham Assay Office.
Each band is hand polished by skilled craftsmen.

We are able to offer you a choice of seven different profiles, each available in a choice of six different metals with up to eight different width choices and up to three different weights. We can add a Diamond cut pattern to any of our plain bands and are able to offer you the option of engraving a personal message inside your band.

Shaped wedding bands designed to fit perfectly around your engagement ring can also be handmade to give you a unique wedding ring which is personal to you.

Oh, and don’t forget the handmade wedding bands and engagement rings created by the designers we’re lucky enough to work with, including James Newman and Deborah Kelly.

For more information, guidance or to arrange an appointment to discover how we can help you create your perfect wedding ring, please call us on 01243 778424.

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Allie

Full list of wedding band profiles;
Flat Court with flat edge profile wedding band – light weight
Flat Court with flat edge profile wedding band – medium weight
Flat Court with flat edge profile wedding band – heavy weight
Court with flat edge profile wedding band – light weight
Court with flat edge profile wedding band – medium weight
Court with flat edge profile wedding band – heavy weight
Oval Court profile wedding band – light weight
Oval Court profile wedding band – medium weight
Oval Court profile wedding band – heavy weight
Flat Court profile wedding band – medium weight
D-Shaped Court profile wedding band – medium weight
Flat, Flat with Oval edge profile wedding band – medium weight
Round profile – medium weight
Available in;
9ct yellow gold
9ct white gold
18ct yellow gold
18ct white gold
Platinum
Palladium

Nicer Things – New Jewellery by Tara Kirkpatrick Jewellery Designer

Tara Kirkpatrick designs and makes jewellery from her gallery in Knutsford, Cheshire. She’s the latest designer to join us here at Plush Jewellery and we’re delighted to bring you her Droplets Collection – icicles slowly warmed in the low winter sun, gradually melt to form glistening beads inspiring Tara Kirkpatrick’s cascading silver jewellery.

These pieces of jewellery are fabulously tactile, the silver droplets tumble while you wear them, reflecting the light as you move.

While our website is moving to it’s new online home, please call us on 01243 778424 to purchase any of these pieces.

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Allie

Tara Kirkpatrick Jewellery - Droplets Necklace - £198

Tara Kirkpatrick Jewellery - Droplets Necklace Heavy Gauge - £215

Tara Kirkpatrick Jewellery - Droplets Bracelet - £92

Tara Kirkpatrick Jewellery - Droplets Double Pendant - £46

Tara Kirkpatrick Jewellery - Droplets Double Drop Earrings - £39

Tara Kirkpatrick Jewellery - Droplets Pendant Double Short - £32

Tara Kirkpatrick Jewellery - Droplets Drop Earrings Short - £24

Tara Kirkpatrick Jewellery - Droplets Double Pendant with Sapphire - £50

Tara Kirkpatrick Jewellery - Droplets Double Drop Earrings with Sapphires - £48

Two Go Mad in Birmingham

It’s a tradition here at Plush Towers, at the beginning of every February we pack up and head northwards for a couple of days of shopping and catching up with jewellery designers and old chums.

Another tradition is the pre-journey fuel up at McDonalds – nothing like a Hash Brown to set you up for the day.

Mmmmmm McDonalds

We’ve been going to Spring Fair for a few years now and with experience you work out that it really is a good idea to remember which of the many car parks you’ve left the car in and more importantly which entrance you use to get into the NEC. It also helps to ‘have a plan’ as the show is so vast there just isn’t time to see it all.

Day one plan: work out who’s where and what’s what. As always, these carefully laid plans quickly scatter to the wind due to the distraction of the sheer shininess of all the jewellery on display. We did catch up with; amongst others, Hazel Atkinson, who has added to her stunning ranges of anodised aluminium jewellery *coming soon* and Juli Miller of Jules Jules whose new ranges using combinations of materials are fabulous *coming soon*.

The View from Our Luxury Accommodation

Day two plan: be distracted by new gorgeous jewellery. It goes without saying that this plan works out much better that the more constrained plan of day one. As a result we’ve got some fantastic news about bespoke engagement rings and wedding bands to bring you soon, keep your eyes open *coming soon*. We passed the Catwalk sponsored by Pandora and spotted the VIP area.

VIP Area - Compact and bijou, Mostyn, compact and bijou

Day three plan: have a good old nose around The Jewellery Quarter and drop in on a couple of designer chums. The Jewellery Quarter is a great place for a mooch about if you are at all interested in jewellery, though on cold day in February with bitter winds it does turn into a slightly swifter mooch than on a nice summer’s day. We caught up with Collette Waudby in her workshop where she was working on pieces from her new Butterfly collection *coming soon*, for anyone already familiar with Collette’s work, you are going to love these new pieces as much as we do.

Collette Waudby - A jeweller in her environment

So, three days in Birmingham and lots of new and exciting things coming to Plush Jewellery in the very near future. All in all a jolly good road trip.

Bestest

Allie

Edit: here’s the promo video for The Jewellery Quarter

…Nicer Things – Alyssa Smith Jewellery

Alyssa Smith Jewellery - Tweethearts, Love Birds Necklace

We’ve been joined at Plush Jewellery but another incredibly talented young jewellery designer maker, Alyssa Smith. As with all of the jewellery designer makers we work with, Alyssa Smith’s work is gorgeous, wearable and just that little bit different.

About Alyssa Smith
Jewellery has always been Alyssa’s passion. From a young age she was creatively minded and determined to learn as much as possible about jewellery and began selling her jewellery in a local independent gift shop. She know from that point onwards that all she wanted to do was create beautiful jewellery and see women enjoying wearing it.
Alyssa Smith creates intricate yet bold jewellery designs in silver, often characterised with drilled patterns and combined with gemstones, Swarovski crystals and fresh water pearls. Heavily influenced by fashion trends, Alyssa Smith creates one piece and develops a whole collection around this theme, using colour to add personality and sparkle to each piece. Alyssa aims to create fashionable yet timeless jewellery which can be work now and in years to come.
After graduating with a degree in Jewellery design and marketing, she created “Alyssa Smith Jewellery”. Her philosophy is simple. She loves to create beautiful jewellery full of sparkles and loveliness to make women feel fabulous no matter what the occasion; whether it’s for spicing up everyday life with some colourful earrings, a confidence boost with a striking piece for an important interview, or adding understated sophistication for a special evening.

My particular favourite pieces that Alyssa Smith has sent us are Alyssa Smith Tweethearts Necklace – Lovebirds, Alyssa Smith Tweethearts Necklace – Home Tweet Home and Alyssa Smith Dark Side Necklace.

Pop over to the website and have a look.

Bestest

Allie

PS Not long to go until Christmas. Keep an eye out for our gift guide.