7 Pacific Northwest Jewelry Designers to Brighten up Your Post Holiday Funk
The Pacific Northwest is known for a ton of great things: grunge, rain, riot grrrls, sexy teen vampires and a damn fine cup of coffee. It’s rich history of all things spooky doesn’t exactly make you think the area is dripping with a culture of modern, drool-worthy accoutrements, but this is where you’re wrong. Let’s break with tradition and take a look at seven of our favorite designers who don’t let the rain get them down and are coming out of the fog with wearable art to die for.
1. Tiro Tiro
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Though Tiro Tiro comes from the latin word for ‘beginner’, Teresa Robinson is anything but. Robinson has both a formal background in fine art and a metalworking know-how she picked up while living in Mexico. What makes her work undeniably unique is the juxtaposition of heavy metals and delicate wisps of linen. Make sure to check out her Arcos Hairpin that brings an old-world coiffeur technique into the 21st century.
2. Baleen
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Power couple and founders of Baleen, Billy and Leah, focus on hand-made jewelry that is both highly chic and relatively affordable. The lucky pair not only get to make these simple geometric pieces together, they split their time between their Seattle studio and Maui. If you’re ever in the the Northwest make sure to check out their recently opened storefront in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.