A film ends and the room does not immediately return to normal. For a few seconds the light is still doing what the film told it to do, and the eye is still waiting for the next shot. Everything after that first film is measured against those few seconds.
This is the whole argument of the house. Not that jewellery should be loud, but that it should arrive after something else has already happened — that the piece is the second event, never the first.
The gap is the work
Every decision in the workshop is made in the gap. A stone is set low not because low is elegant but because the piece has to hold its own for ten years without help. A band is finished on both faces because the wearer will find the hidden side one day and should not find neglect there.
We are not trying to make something beautiful. We are trying to make something that is still interesting on the four hundredth wearing.
There is a practical consequence. The house makes very little, and what it makes takes a long time. Nothing here is designed to be photographed, which is why most of it has never been photographed.
