“I look for beauty in the everyday.”
Peter Schmid
ENERGY
What creates flow, that sense of direction and rightness? We believe flow is born from a love of our craft and our enthusiasm about what is unique in a piece. The sense of flow grows as we work with a stone, a pearl or fossil, and gradually understand how it wants to be presented. Flow also demands patience from us, as we need to respect a budding idea until it grows, matures, and finally takes wing. In return, the sense of flow energizes us with an almost euphoric feeling of being free yet at the same time centered, so that we can even forget the passing of time. This energy, flowing between the members of our team, gives us a very special kind of happiness. This experience of working together, constantly learning and expanding our knowledge and our horizons, unites us and motivates us to create exceptional, unique objects.
FLOW
What creates flow, that sense of direction and rightness? We believe flow is born from a love of our craft and our enthusiasm about what is unique in a piece. The sense of flow grows as we work with a stone, a pearl or fossil, and gradually understand how it wants to be presented. Flow also demands patience from us, as we need to respect a budding idea until it grows, matures, and finally takes wing. In return, the sense of flow energizes us with an almost euphoric feeling of being free yet at the same time centered, so that we can even forget the passing of time. This energy, flowing between the members of our team, gives us a very special kind of happiness. This experience of working together, constantly learning and expanding our knowledge and our horizons, unites us and motivates us to create exceptional, unique objects.
TIME
In the 21st century, the true luxury is time. I am often asked how long we need to finish a specific piece. While it might be possible to estimate the time needed for the work process, it is difficult to foresee how many hours, days or even weeks it may take to develop a first flash of inspiration into a finished sketch. This might seem anachronistic in an era of ‘yesterday’ deadlines and ‘just in time’ delivery, we believe we must work at the speed which the piece, not the world, demands. For us, a piece of jewelry is finished only when it doesn’t need anything more added: when it has arrived at a point of consummate perfection. This is an intuitive process of discovering and unveiling. It follows that we need to take all the time that this requires, perceiving and responding to the stone’s magic and embracing its unique character. Sometimes this requires several encounters; sometimes only a fraction of a second. This investment of time is fully justified when a piece of jewelry is complete, perfectly realized, and finds its ideal wearer.
