Ah, clever Annina. The London-based jewellery designer not only makes gorgeous, quirky, grown-up ‘vintage- style jewellery from antique Victorian trinkets, but she is also recycling at the same time – she is firm believer in saving as much antique gold as possible…
All her designs keep the vintage element in its original form, but she reworks and repositions them in different ways – for example a charm could become a ring, a brooch part of a pendant, etc. This means every piece is totally unique.
Super-passionate about this technique, she makes ethical jewellery look cool as well as making vintage jewellery feel relevant and contemporary. The somewhat naff arena of charms is reinvented as classic, quirky, and seriously collectible.
As part of London Jewellery Week 2010 Annina is resident in Liberty on Great Malborough St, W1, where she’ll be surrounded by her incredible collection of antique gold trinkets and available to help you build your own bespoke piece of jewellery.
It’s worth a visit even if only to gawk at her extensive collection and gorgeous pieces. The Victorian jewellery designers loved being as idiosyncratic as possible, so you’ll find random references and ridiculous motifs amongst the more sentimental hearts, clovers and lockets.
Definitely worth a rummage…
Have a look at a small selection of Annina’s work
here...
All images copyright Annina Vogel 2010
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