Lot 401
TENTHOUSANDTHINGS (RON ANDERSON & DAVID REES), NEW YORK
PAIR OF EXTRA LARGE LAPIS CHANDELIER EARRINGS
Auction: Day Two | Lots 100 to 527 | Fri 31 October from 10am
Description
each modelled as a tapering girandole drop of polished lapis lazuli pendants, yellow metal, hook fittings, unmarked
Dimensions
length: 10.70cm (4 ¼in)
Footnote
TENTHOUSANDTHINGS is the creation of Ron Anderson and David Rees, two self-taught jewellers who arrived at the workbench after careers in New York’s fashion world. From their downtown studio, they have developed a distinctive vocabulary of forms — sculptural, abstract, often echoing patterns and textures found in the natural world. Each piece, made by hand in silver or gold, is conceived as a modern heirloom, balancing refinement with a sense of quiet permanence.
In recent years, Anderson and Rees’s search for unusual materials has led them beyond their own atelier, most notably to Jaipur. There, in collaboration with highly skilled stone carvers, they have extended their practice to include hand-carved gems. Working from the jewellers’ wax models, some entirely new and others drawn from their archive, the artisans employ traditional techniques passed down through generations. Rough stones are reimagined in this process — cut, carved, and polished into luminous forms that retain all the subtlety of the original designs. These singular carvings, with their careful balance of precision and irregularity, are destined to be assembled into earrings and necklaces that embody the pair’s idiosyncratic, modern vision of adornment.