Patina Cuff

£20,000

Description: What remains after feeling has passed through the body is not nothing. It leaves a residue — in the skin, in the psyche, in the slow corrosion of who we were before we understood what we were capable of feeling. Patina is this process made visible. Not decay, but accumulation. The surface that has lived in. The gemstones are not ornament. They are the moments that break through — colour appearing without permission, the way grief surfaces in joy or tenderness arrives in anger. Sensitivity is not singular. It is scattered, uneven, arriving in frequencies the body registers before the mind can name them.

Lead time of 3-4 weeks.
Measurements: 12 x 4 x 0.5 cm
Condition: New
Womens: US OS
Color: Silver
Pick up: Old Selfridges Hotel
Seller: Eliz Fan
Eliz Fan explores the relationship between imagery, memory, and personal identity through jewellery — objects that accompany the body through time, holding emotional meaning and cultural memory in form and material. Of Taiwanese heritage, born and raised in Hong Kong, now based in London, Fan brings a lived experience of cultural intersection to her practice. Her Masters in Jewellery & Metal at the Royal College of Art refined a technical language precise enough to hold the weight of that history — work that is quiet in its execution, exacting in its intention. Central to this practice are philosophies rooted in East Asian thought: wabi-sabi, the appreciation of imperfection and transience, and ichigo ichie, the awareness that every moment is singular and unrepeatable. These ideas shape an approach to making that values the quiet, the incomplete, and the overlooked — worn surfaces, natural structures, the softness of things that resist resolution. Themes of calmness, solitude, vulnerability, and reflection run through the work. Each piece emerges from an attentiveness to small, raw beauties: the kind that exist beneath everyday life rather than above it. The practice also holds the meeting of East and West — where traditional Chinese and Japanese ornamental languages are drawn through personal perspective and lived experience. Historical patterns and dreamlike imagery are not reproduced but inhabited, allowed to exist in a contemporary and intimate context.