about

HIVER Studio was born out of a desire to return to materiality; its limits and challenges, its malleability and temporality. Hiver, winter in English, evokes material and sensorial experiences. It’s a planetary condition; a season produced by light, cycles, atmosphere, and time.

Similarly, jewelry and accessories are objects of time and cycles. They are heirlooms, and they can be made and remade. 

We’re drawn to archetypal forms: circles, spirals and squares; orbs, cones and cubes. Their simplicity brings the material itself to the foreground. These elemental forms also give them a talismanic, grounding presence.

We’re also intrigued by mixing metals and other materials; juxtaposing shapes, textures, finishes and volumes. By putting them in relation to one another, their different qualities and possibilities are revealed.

The studio takes inspiration from other fields, such as sculpture, furniture and object design, fashion and interiors. Looking outside of jewelry opens up other ways of thinking about how things can be made, worn and used.

We’re interested in the process of making things, and in what changes through making. We want to experiment and play with form and styling, and for people to do the same with their pieces.

Perhaps most of all, we want to remember — re-member — that every material, and everything, comes from the Earth. We care about where materials come from and where they go, and want to keep asking who and what they encounter along the way — from their source, through the hands that craft them, to the people who eventually wear them, and all the humans and nonhumans involved in between. This is an ongoing practice of care — one we hope to deepen as HIVER evolves. Through making objects, presenting them, discussing them and wearing them, we want to pay attention to their preciousness, their histories and the processes that brought them here.