Finished wedding band

Jewelry Design

2017 - 2018

Wedding band, 18k yellow gold. The geometry is what you’d get if you took a (very large) potato peeler to one of the columns of the Sagrada Familia (and shrunk the results a lot). I printed many variations locally to iterate on the design, and the final was printed in wax and cast in gold by the excellent people at i.materialise.

Initial designs on whiteboard
Initial designs on whiteboard
The design began as a series of sketches, warping the geometry originally defined by Gaudi into the shape of a ring.
Finished wedding band standing on the print supports from a prototype
Several iterations later, the print was finalized in solid 14k gold - the finished product sits here on the print supports from an earlier prototype.
Finished collection
A presentation box and pen tray finishes out the collection based on this motif.
Fractal ears! (an earring for an ear, from an ear)
Having originally produced this model for a whimsical project in 2016 when photogrammetry was emerging as an accessible technique, it wasn’t until 2018 that I realized I had missed the obvious: it had to become an earring for the very ear it was scanned from. Lost-wax compatible 3d printed resin, cast in sterling silver by i.materialise.