„Moments, experiences, coincidence’s, the happenstance, chance encounters, luck, emotions, the familiar, comfort, the discarded. If I see a penny, I have to pick it up.”

We asked London-based furniture designer Dean Edmonds to collaborate with Gottlob World on a collection of brooches. He created 21 unique artistic pieces conceived to be carried on you.

Deans acclaimed furniture works are mostly individual custom pieces created for a specific occasion but without a preconceived concept. Oftentimes upcycling and using industrial material, his practice is coined by the commitment to making. By immersing himself into an open process it is the discoveries made along the way, the coincidence, the interaction and the receptivity for the rough treasures determining the result.

With an obsession for detail rather than absolute form Dean created little perfect works of art out of discarded materials and diverse contexts giving them an unexpected and exquisite second life. Just like a detective with a keen instinct as to which is the right trail to pick up, ultimately everything falls into place. It is the notion of serendipity and storytelling that makes these eclectic jewellery-pieces unreproducible.