Protect Your Neck

After a decade of searching, I finally found one of Hannu Ikonen’s Reindeer Moss pieces at a yard sale. It’s big, beautiful articulated pendant and it only cost me $3. I don’t know a lot about Ikonen except that he worked the Finnish firm of Valo-Koru throughout the 1970s. While I research, I will add it to my box o’ signed necklaces. Here’s the newbie with a fellow Finn — a brutalist bronze pendant by Pentti Sarpaneva.

I’m also a fan of enameled jewelry. Clockwise from left: a Bernard Chaudron critter; a Frey-Wiile creation; an abstract Gervais; and a DePassille-Sylvestre mermaid.

Ceramicists also make cool jewels: here’s a lariat from Xenia Taler and a pyramid by Julie Moon.

A brutalist long necklace signed Darveau and an unsigned caged quartz necklace and drop pendant that I upcycled myself.

Station necklaces are also fun to layer. The Thai Buddha amulet is suspended from a chain spaced with Rudraksha beads. It is signed F.L.D. Another is a retro Avon necklace with caged coral.

Another set of stations: An unsigned silver and crystal studio piece and a Kendra Scott Kellie Long chain with bezel set turquoise stones.

One necklace layered necklace by Annabel Thom.

And finally a silver Messika keychain that I got as a gift and turned into a necklace.