Double Take Earrings (Ruby) ♻️Hold a piece of old glass up to the light and watch what happens. Not new glass old glass, the kind that spent decades as a bottle or a window or a jar on someone's kitchen shelf. It catches light differently. There's a depth to it, a warmth that comes from imperfection, from tiny air bubbles and uneven surfaces that were never engineered out. Mass production eventually made glass flawless. It also made it forgettable. Bottled Up Designs, a woman

In Art Nouveau Paris

At 1⅛ inches in length and just 1 gram per earring

understated bezel

Artists have been chasing that instant for centuries

Kandinsky called it "inner necessity

It was modernism growing out of a garden

The layers build on each other

The name of the studio isn't accidental

a body built like a jeweled bullet

to the moody botanical illustrations of Pierre-Joseph Redouté working by candlelight

so the warm tones seem to radiate from somewhere inside the piece rather than sitting on its surface

cut and arranged by hand