Today, two beloved British designers launched a creative partnership that will elevate your home – and provide chic storage for your jewellery. It’s a capsule collection by jewellery design duo Otiumberg and ceramics label Henry Holland Studio, comprising two ceramic jewellery boxes that unite the two brands’ distinctive styles.
“The pieces are designed not just to hold jewellery, but to exist beautifully within a space – something you can place anywhere in the home and appreciate in its own right,” sisters Christie and Rosanna Wollenberg tell Broadsheet. In 2016, while living together in London, the sisters founded Otiumberg, a demi-fine jewellery brand that has become known for its understated elegance; think gently woven gold hoops, subtle necklaces with kite-shaped quartz pendants and a signature knot design which has appeared in multiple collections.
It’s this knot that sparked inspiration for Henry Holland, the fashion designer-turned-ceramicist who founded his own homewares studio in 2021 and has become known for his homewares made from bold colour combinations of earthenware clays. “As Henry explored our knot collection, he instinctively gravitated towards it and reimagined it in ceramic form,” the sisters explain. “Seeing something so rooted in our identity at Otiumberg take on a completely new life through Henry Holland’s lens was genuinely surprising.”
The result is two jewellery boxes crowned with the Otiumberg knot. True to Henry Holland Studio’s style, there’s a fluidity to the boxes: nothing about them (neither their shapes nor patterns) fits into neat geometric symmetry. That’s because each box is hand-formed using the studio’s take on the Nerikomi technique: a Japanese process in which layers of coloured clay are meticulously stacked, compressed and sliced, creating marbled patterns. No two works are ever identical; each is its own collectible work of art.
It’s a very different way of working for the Otiumberg founders, and took some adjusting to. “Henry’s approach to ceramics is very intuitive and process-led, which allowed the patterns to evolve in a slightly more fluid way than we’re used to,” they say. “It became less about control and more about collaboration with the material itself.”
That said, the designers realised that they share an ethos that runs deeper than process. “There’s a shared appreciation for slowness and intention, but it comes through in different ways,” the sisters explain.
“At Otiumberg, the focus is on intimacy, fine detail, and the emotional connection people have with the pieces they wear every day. Henry Holland brings a strong understanding of ceramics and sculptural form on a larger, more architectural scale. What makes this collaboration work is how naturally those perspectives complement each other.”
The Henry Holland x Otiumberg capsule collection is available now from the Otiumberg and Henry Holland Studio websites.
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