Country & Town House
October 2025
Francesca Fearon
Sparkle Up – Francesca Fearon spotlights the latest jewellery news
Two contrasting avant-garde collections have launched from influential designers Gaia Repossi and Hannah Martin: Repossi’s tribal-looking Blast high jewellery wraps swirls of gold thread and diamonds dramatically around the body, while Martin’s Perfect Drug [02] ramps up utilitarian, gritty sensuous design with chunky rings and chainmail necklaces.
Woodland Wonders
The new collection by Hampshire-born artist Natasha Wightman for her jewellery brand NVW brings Britain’s vanishing ancient woodlands into the limelight. Building on Wightman’s tradition of working with natural English materials, the one-of-a-kind pieces are carved from sub-fossilised bog oak preserved in the earth for up to 7,000 years, which is combined with emeralds, diamonds and sapphires in earrings, brooches and cuff bracelets. The Lost Forests series also encompasses sculpture, film and a documentary, and will be exhibited at Christie’s 9-23 October.
