New Bracelets: 400+ contemporary jewellery designs

Jewelry designer Johanna Törnqvist makes bracelets out of cast-off packaging materials, while Elvire Blanc Briand finds inspiration in pastry-making techniques. The results can be seen in the book “New Bracelets” (Promopress), edited by Colombia-born jewelry designer Nicolás Estrada, which features more than 400 pieces from 200 artists.Writing about her work, Nóra Tengely asks: What if we picked jewelry “not in accordance with sight, but with other senses”? Her bracelets are named after sensations that they mimic, like a “caress” bracelet made of brass and feathery polyester and a “tickle” bracelet that consists of five balloons tied to a brass circle.Steven Parker’s “Egyptian Bracelet”—made of vermeil, lapis lazuli, enamel, brass, steel and quartz—contains stylized hooded cobras and hieroglyphics that contain a riddle. Gigi Mariani also looks back millennia with “Stonehenge,” a ring of six prehistoric-looking blocks whose dark surface hides silver and yellow gold.