Contemporary jewelry inspired by literature and nature.

From Barcelona.

I want Vita: I want Insect: want currant bun: t wilight-oh tand night too if you insist, with the birds singing and the stars rising.

Letter of Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville.
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"I open the door to my east chamber,
I sit on my couch in the west room,
I take off my wartime gown
And put on my old-time clothes."
Facing the window she fixes her cloudlike hair,
Hanging up a mirror she dabs on yellow flower powder
She goes out the door and sees her comrades.
Her comrades are all amazed and perplexed.”

Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534 AD)
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"She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery."

Flaubert, G. (1856). Madame Bovary
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"There's a willow that leans over the brook, dangling its white leaves over the glassy water. Ophelia made wild wreaths out of those leaves, braiding in crowflowers, thistles, daisies and the orchises that vulgar shepherds have an obscene name for, but which pure-minded girls call "dead men's fingers".


William Shakespeare: "Hamlet", 1609.
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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herselft. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumplemayer's men were coming.


Virginia Woolf: "Mrs. Dolloway", 1925.
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"I don't have any books to read, and all the spare time l get I run off into the woods; that rests me better than stories" answered Phebe, as she finished one job and began on another. 

Louisa May Alcott; "Eight Cousins", 1876.
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