Recommendations and rewards curated just for you by ShopStyle. We're glad you're here! Weve got a nice jewellery-manufacturing industry within this country. Once the casting is complete, the pieces are returned to Burnham and his team to be set with stones, then perfected for market.
I dont ever think there will be a quick route because theres a mastery to what we do., Burnham is self-taught, but theres a fine art to his craft: hes developed his own method of creating surface texture with precious metals and unique ways of incorporating gems one he fights to protect. Burnham sketches his pieces at his studio on the Strand. 2022 | All Rights Reserved, Company registration number: 06866013 | VAT number: GB 865368680. Using the centuries-old process of lost-wax casting, Burnham sculpts and fine-tunes wax models of new designs. The best mens jewellery brands to accessorise with A$AP Rocky-like panache, Why I love the Cartier Tank: an iconic watch for more than 100 years, The elusive family behind Chrome Hearts, fashions most unlikely empire, Mens jewellery is in the midst of a full-blown renaissance. POSITIVELY CONSCIOUS: We've partnered with Good On You an ethical agency that rates how sustainably brands perform across various people, planet and animal welfare criteria. Burnham also keeps books on the IcelandicDanish artists practice, alongside publications on English gardens (hes a fan of Great Dixter in East Sussex), and the Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake. But its sapphires that hes best known for. Diamonds and pearls: Burnham works with both, with a laser focus on sustainability. Not that Burnhams work is too referential. For this, he collaborates with London specialist AA Fine Castings on the far-from-glamorous Holloway Road. So, I was like, What are the other options? Careful research led him to forge a partnership in Thailand. Ive always worn a lot of colourful clothing, so it was just another way of doing that. In one of his first pieces, Burnham paired a pink stone with glowing precious metal. This model is then used to create a master mould, into which molten metal such as yellow gold is poured to shape his gems. Everybody has to learn from the ground up. I felt an urge to try and create something new.
I tried to have these more organic textures that took me ages to work out., The brand, launched in 2018, is part of a rising group of jewellers among them, Fraser Hamilton, Hatton Labs and Polite Worldwide who are ringing in a shiny new era of jewellery for men; one that has destroyed the traditional masculine-feminine divide. Then theres the companys own charity, the Natural Community Trust, which was launched this February and is financially underwritten by a pledge of 10 per cent of end-of-year profits going to conservation projects. Burnham also follows an ambitious environmental progression strategy, working with recycled precious metals, using renewable energy, and wrapping gems in pouches made from fully organic cotton and biodegradable packaging. Natural colours and textures give detail to designs such as a line of figurative pendants in the shape of dahlia flower bouquets and rings that interpret the rippled texture of mown grass. The gold and the pink still to this day that is the most beautiful colour combination that you have in jewellery, he says, describing the stones as a really dark, Turkish Delight pink. That ring has since been followed by many pendants and bracelets starring jubilant gemstones in Jolly Rancher colourways and Rice Krispie pearls (as theyre known in the business). Olafur Eliasson is a favourite, so theres a shot of his 2014 outdoors-indoors recreation, Riverbed, at the Danish Museum. You didnt know where anything was coming from and no one would tell you. When I started wanting to use gemstones, I started looking at where I could get them from, he says. 9kt yellow gold Grand Rose Garden sapphire ring, 9kt yellow gold The Rose Garden sapphire signet ring, SSENSE Exclusive Silver & Multicolor Gemstone Money Clip Tie Bar, The Portrait 9kt Recycled-gold Ring - Gold, 9-Karat Recycled Gold Sapphire Signet Ring, The Portrait 9-Karat Recycled Gold Pendant Necklace, The Mini Riviera Sterling Silver And Sapphire Ring, Sterling Silver Grand Rose Garden Sapphire Signet Ring, The Mini Rose Garden Sterling Silver And Sapphire Signet Ring, 9K Yellow Gold Mini Rose Garden Sapphire Signet Ring, SSENSE Exclusive Silver & Yellow Bouquet Single Earring, SSENSE Exclusive Silver Marigold Cufflink, 9K Yellow Gold Bouquet Sapphire Signet Ring, The Rose Recycled Sterling Silver Sapphire Pendant Necklace, The Window Sterling Silver Pendant Necklace, Turmeric Engraved Sterling Silver Signet Ring. Subscribe to receive automatic email and app updates to be the first to know when this item becomes available in new stores, sizes or prices. I created the way that I set stones myself, through research and development. Antique Baroque-pearl Sterling-silver Bracelet. Vibrant, however, are the trio of rings he wears in recycled yellow gold or silver, all set with brilliant stones which play off the yellow gold of his vintage Cartier Tank. Here, he employs two full-time makers and several part-time members, including his brother Solomon. We could have a direct relationship with the factory and so we started using lab-grown sapphires.. Burnhams vibrant colourways embrace the opulence and abundance of decades and centuries past. The brands signature Window Box and Riviera rings glisten with a multi-chromatic display of stones. This renaissance began with dangly earrings and posh pearls, and has exploded into sparkles and brash colour as extensions of personal style. At the centre of it all is an enthusiastic embrace of no-holds-barred Technicolor and nobody is a bigger proponent of jewellerys candy-tone revolution than Londons Bleue Burnham, 15 years on from Mad Men, the Don Draper effect is dead in menswear, A$AP Rocky is rewriting the rulebook on date night dressing, Paul Sorvino slicing garlic with a razor blade in, The ten ultimate style rules to follow in a heatwave, Brad Pitt gets his sunglasses from one place (and we don't blame him), The best hotels in the UK and Ireland to stay in this year, Best-dressed men of the week: Brad Pitt to Ryan Gosling, Tom Cruise is schooling every man on the power of a decent blue suit, GQ Shops: Bonhams' vintage and contemporary watch auctions, What it's like to ride in a support car at the Tour de France, Raf Simons will be showing at London Fashion Week 2022, Print copies & Digital access for only 1.
Intense happiness, is what Bleue Burnham felt when he held the first piece of jewellery hed made. We are making everything here in the UK, Burnham explains.
White sterling silver Antique pearl bracelet from Bleue Burnham featuring pearl detail and clasp fastening. At Burnhams young brand, nature is a recurring motif hence the tree diagrams. The designer scours car boot sales and charity shops near his home in east London for vintage pearl jewellery to give a new lease of life to. With no two pearls the same, the unique design is complete with a sterling silver safety clasp for an opulent and timeless finish. Colour is just one of the most emotionally powerful things in the natural world, says Burnham.
Finding people is difficult. When I enter the 29-year-olds central London workshop, a bag of the crunchy pearls bursts open, cascading from his desk and bouncing on the floor like a tightly choreographed haute joaillerie advert.
Sign up for exclusive early sale access and tailored new arrivals, Copyright Ashworth and Parker Limited (t/a END.) This product comes from a Conscious brand that performs well in relation to their impact on the planet, for example ensures the use of materials that limit the amount of chemicals, water and wastewater involved in production processes.. We'll keep our eyes out for you. Now, says Burnham, theres space for more styles and a much richer tapestry of possibility.. High drama but this is no jewellery workshop of old. A look around Burnhams studio reveals his many inspirations. Use us to compare prices across 500+ stores. The Brighton-born Burnham is dressed in sombre tones. The unique treasures of 17th-century Moghul emperors perhaps, or David Bowies onstage fits in the 1970s. Intricately crafted in London from recycled antique pearls, this Bleue Burnham bracelet carries with it a piece of history from varying backgrounds and decades. Luckily for me, being my own business means I can have more control and be a bit more radical with what we do.. Burnham decided to work with lab-grown versions of the stones in a bid for supply-chain visibility. Burnhams jewellery is a high-key kaleidoscope: he uses sapphires in rainbow tones of sunshine yellow, juicy fuchsia or apple green. Collaged on a pinboard by his desk: botanical plant diagrams, black and white images of a trees root system, and the 1973 book jacket of The Secret Life of Plants. A curated style universe that tailors trends to you. It evokes something so deep inside of us, but we dont quite understand why we love it, or why it makes us feel a certain way., After a period of crafting his pieces alone at home, Burnham set up a studio on the Strand.
I dont ever think there will be a quick route because theres a mastery to what we do., Burnham is self-taught, but theres a fine art to his craft: hes developed his own method of creating surface texture with precious metals and unique ways of incorporating gems one he fights to protect. Burnham sketches his pieces at his studio on the Strand. 2022 | All Rights Reserved, Company registration number: 06866013 | VAT number: GB 865368680. Using the centuries-old process of lost-wax casting, Burnham sculpts and fine-tunes wax models of new designs. The best mens jewellery brands to accessorise with A$AP Rocky-like panache, Why I love the Cartier Tank: an iconic watch for more than 100 years, The elusive family behind Chrome Hearts, fashions most unlikely empire, Mens jewellery is in the midst of a full-blown renaissance. POSITIVELY CONSCIOUS: We've partnered with Good On You an ethical agency that rates how sustainably brands perform across various people, planet and animal welfare criteria. Burnham also keeps books on the IcelandicDanish artists practice, alongside publications on English gardens (hes a fan of Great Dixter in East Sussex), and the Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake. But its sapphires that hes best known for. Diamonds and pearls: Burnham works with both, with a laser focus on sustainability. Not that Burnhams work is too referential. For this, he collaborates with London specialist AA Fine Castings on the far-from-glamorous Holloway Road. So, I was like, What are the other options? Careful research led him to forge a partnership in Thailand. Ive always worn a lot of colourful clothing, so it was just another way of doing that. In one of his first pieces, Burnham paired a pink stone with glowing precious metal. This model is then used to create a master mould, into which molten metal such as yellow gold is poured to shape his gems. Everybody has to learn from the ground up. I felt an urge to try and create something new.
I tried to have these more organic textures that took me ages to work out., The brand, launched in 2018, is part of a rising group of jewellers among them, Fraser Hamilton, Hatton Labs and Polite Worldwide who are ringing in a shiny new era of jewellery for men; one that has destroyed the traditional masculine-feminine divide. Then theres the companys own charity, the Natural Community Trust, which was launched this February and is financially underwritten by a pledge of 10 per cent of end-of-year profits going to conservation projects. Burnham also follows an ambitious environmental progression strategy, working with recycled precious metals, using renewable energy, and wrapping gems in pouches made from fully organic cotton and biodegradable packaging. Natural colours and textures give detail to designs such as a line of figurative pendants in the shape of dahlia flower bouquets and rings that interpret the rippled texture of mown grass. The gold and the pink still to this day that is the most beautiful colour combination that you have in jewellery, he says, describing the stones as a really dark, Turkish Delight pink. That ring has since been followed by many pendants and bracelets starring jubilant gemstones in Jolly Rancher colourways and Rice Krispie pearls (as theyre known in the business). Olafur Eliasson is a favourite, so theres a shot of his 2014 outdoors-indoors recreation, Riverbed, at the Danish Museum. You didnt know where anything was coming from and no one would tell you. When I started wanting to use gemstones, I started looking at where I could get them from, he says. 9kt yellow gold Grand Rose Garden sapphire ring, 9kt yellow gold The Rose Garden sapphire signet ring, SSENSE Exclusive Silver & Multicolor Gemstone Money Clip Tie Bar, The Portrait 9kt Recycled-gold Ring - Gold, 9-Karat Recycled Gold Sapphire Signet Ring, The Portrait 9-Karat Recycled Gold Pendant Necklace, The Mini Riviera Sterling Silver And Sapphire Ring, Sterling Silver Grand Rose Garden Sapphire Signet Ring, The Mini Rose Garden Sterling Silver And Sapphire Signet Ring, 9K Yellow Gold Mini Rose Garden Sapphire Signet Ring, SSENSE Exclusive Silver & Yellow Bouquet Single Earring, SSENSE Exclusive Silver Marigold Cufflink, 9K Yellow Gold Bouquet Sapphire Signet Ring, The Rose Recycled Sterling Silver Sapphire Pendant Necklace, The Window Sterling Silver Pendant Necklace, Turmeric Engraved Sterling Silver Signet Ring. Subscribe to receive automatic email and app updates to be the first to know when this item becomes available in new stores, sizes or prices. I created the way that I set stones myself, through research and development. Antique Baroque-pearl Sterling-silver Bracelet. Vibrant, however, are the trio of rings he wears in recycled yellow gold or silver, all set with brilliant stones which play off the yellow gold of his vintage Cartier Tank. Here, he employs two full-time makers and several part-time members, including his brother Solomon. We could have a direct relationship with the factory and so we started using lab-grown sapphires.. Burnhams vibrant colourways embrace the opulence and abundance of decades and centuries past. The brands signature Window Box and Riviera rings glisten with a multi-chromatic display of stones. This renaissance began with dangly earrings and posh pearls, and has exploded into sparkles and brash colour as extensions of personal style. At the centre of it all is an enthusiastic embrace of no-holds-barred Technicolor and nobody is a bigger proponent of jewellerys candy-tone revolution than Londons Bleue Burnham, 15 years on from Mad Men, the Don Draper effect is dead in menswear, A$AP Rocky is rewriting the rulebook on date night dressing, Paul Sorvino slicing garlic with a razor blade in, The ten ultimate style rules to follow in a heatwave, Brad Pitt gets his sunglasses from one place (and we don't blame him), The best hotels in the UK and Ireland to stay in this year, Best-dressed men of the week: Brad Pitt to Ryan Gosling, Tom Cruise is schooling every man on the power of a decent blue suit, GQ Shops: Bonhams' vintage and contemporary watch auctions, What it's like to ride in a support car at the Tour de France, Raf Simons will be showing at London Fashion Week 2022, Print copies & Digital access for only 1.
Intense happiness, is what Bleue Burnham felt when he held the first piece of jewellery hed made. We are making everything here in the UK, Burnham explains.
White sterling silver Antique pearl bracelet from Bleue Burnham featuring pearl detail and clasp fastening. At Burnhams young brand, nature is a recurring motif hence the tree diagrams. The designer scours car boot sales and charity shops near his home in east London for vintage pearl jewellery to give a new lease of life to. With no two pearls the same, the unique design is complete with a sterling silver safety clasp for an opulent and timeless finish. Colour is just one of the most emotionally powerful things in the natural world, says Burnham.
Finding people is difficult. When I enter the 29-year-olds central London workshop, a bag of the crunchy pearls bursts open, cascading from his desk and bouncing on the floor like a tightly choreographed haute joaillerie advert. Sign up for exclusive early sale access and tailored new arrivals, Copyright Ashworth and Parker Limited (t/a END.) This product comes from a Conscious brand that performs well in relation to their impact on the planet, for example ensures the use of materials that limit the amount of chemicals, water and wastewater involved in production processes.. We'll keep our eyes out for you. Now, says Burnham, theres space for more styles and a much richer tapestry of possibility.. High drama but this is no jewellery workshop of old. A look around Burnhams studio reveals his many inspirations. Use us to compare prices across 500+ stores. The Brighton-born Burnham is dressed in sombre tones. The unique treasures of 17th-century Moghul emperors perhaps, or David Bowies onstage fits in the 1970s. Intricately crafted in London from recycled antique pearls, this Bleue Burnham bracelet carries with it a piece of history from varying backgrounds and decades. Luckily for me, being my own business means I can have more control and be a bit more radical with what we do.. Burnham decided to work with lab-grown versions of the stones in a bid for supply-chain visibility. Burnhams jewellery is a high-key kaleidoscope: he uses sapphires in rainbow tones of sunshine yellow, juicy fuchsia or apple green. Collaged on a pinboard by his desk: botanical plant diagrams, black and white images of a trees root system, and the 1973 book jacket of The Secret Life of Plants. A curated style universe that tailors trends to you. It evokes something so deep inside of us, but we dont quite understand why we love it, or why it makes us feel a certain way., After a period of crafting his pieces alone at home, Burnham set up a studio on the Strand.