The Bravais Journal · Chapter Thirteen

Print And Screen

My debut collection is in the same issue as Nicole Kidman on the cover. I have known this was coming for a while, but today I finally held the print copy in my hands, and it still does not feel entirely real.

British Vogue's September Big Fashion Issue, in both digital and print, features five pieces from Stone & Wild and the Torus Band. Four of them are one-of-one originals, hand-carved at my bench in my home studio in Boston:

• The Bravais, set with an unheated Mozambican ruby
• The Channel, set with an unheated Mozambican Paraiba tourmaline
• El Dorado Shift, set with a color-shift sapphire
• Pharaoh Eye, set with a tricolor Songea sapphire and eight diamonds

British Vogue was not done there. Separately, Vogue Retail's Jewellery Edit went live on vogue.co.uk, and at position ten of twenty-five sits the Pharaoh Eye ring, photographed on a rock at the edge of the water. That photo is one I took myself, because that is usually how I end up photographing my own work, wherever I am, whatever is nearby.

Print and digital, same issue, same magazine, and every one of these started as wax under my hands, at a bench in Boston, long before it was ever a page or a screen. That part has not changed since the first piece I ever carved. What has changed is who is looking at it now.

Abigail