Jeweler Pippa Small’s New Collection Was Hand-Forged 4,000 Meters Up in Bolivia
Nicole Phelps
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Jeweler Pippa Small’s New Collection Was Hand-Forged 4,000 Meters Up in Bolivia
Pippa Small, jewelry designer and peripatetic traveler, is sharing a photo diary from her latest trip to Bolivia with Vogue.
Pippa Small travels far and wide to create her ethically made jewelry. Fresh from La Paz, Bolivia, where she works with a certified Fairtrade gold mine, she’ll be home in London for less than two weeks before she jets off to Myanmar (with her 6-year-old twins in tow!) for another project. In January 2019, Afghanistan and Jordan are on the itinerary.
“These projects all need time and attention,” she explains. “You really have to build that relationship, or you’re not going to get what you want, and you can’t sell it, and they can’t get orders . . . . ” But it’s not just the work that drives Small. Talking about her recent trip, she reflects, “You know when you look at something and you literally feel your heart lifting and just soaring? Bolivia is just so beautiful.”
It rubs off on the pieces that Small has made there. “I arrive with a pack of pebbles—from beaches all over the world to people’s driveways,” she begins. Javier, her trusted local goldsmith, makes moulds of the pebbles, which she uses for her necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and rings in a tight little circle from raw materials to finished jewelry. “The pebbles have a lovely feel about them because they come from shapes made by wind or water or time or movement,” says Small. “You can sort of feel that in the pieces.” Indeed, their tactility is inherent to their charm.
Pippa Small’s new ethical gold Bolivian pebble collection is available on her website, from $1,400 to $5,200. See her photos from Bolivia here.
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