Explore our jewellery for the hit Netflix series Wednesday. Quirky teenage gothic horror, Wednesday, and Stephen Einhorn feels like a match made in heaven (hell…?) and so it was when we were approached to make three new designs for the second season.
Read on to find out more about the pieces and how we created them.
We were approached by costume designers Colleen Atwood and Mark Sutherland to make a new version of Wednesday’s pendant, the title character played by Jenna Ortega in the successful Netflix spin off of the iconic Addams Family film. Dark, quirky, enigmatic and gothic, this was an ideal commission for us. They also wanted us to re-draw and create new versions of the Siren’s necklaces, and a Watch casing for the character, Dort, played by the inimitable Steve Buscemi.
Atwood and Sutherland visited our workshops to discuss the brief, updating Wednesday’s pendant worn in the series to match the growth of the character. Atwood directed us to change the shape of the letters and we added black sapphires and diamonds
This piece was an interesting commission as the watch serves a specific purpose in the series (spoiler alert: when it is opened the sirens halt their haunting song). Wielded by Dort - Steve Buscemi - the design is a woman’s head on a beautifully intricate background based on the iconic designs of Czech Art Nouveau illustrator and painter Alphonse Mucha. The surface design was made by curving pieces of bronze, which we then decorated with engraving and set with pearls, blue sapphires and blue topaz, before filling with enamel.
Atwood also wanted these necklaces updated to match the series’ growing popularity and reach, and so we developed the design alongside Atwood and Sutherland, made it and then added layers of iridescent enamel of the detailed type of work we specialise in in many of our designs, alongside deep blue topaz to create a mystic quality which fit the characters eerie and beautiful qualities.
With Stephen and Jane’s backgrounds as model makers and stylists, their distinct eye for unusual design, and experience of working with high-end bespoke clients, they are the perfect pair to take on commissions to be used in film. They have created pieces for films including Dumbo, Maleficent, Tomb Raider, Cinderella, Allied, Dark Shadows and Damsel and have become long time collaborators with Colleen Atwood with whom they worked with on Tim Burton's films.
Designing for film and TV allows them to work in exciting new ways, problem solving when a piece needs to be used in a certain way - for example ripped from a character’s neck (the Sirens) - experimenting with precious stones and metals using an original brief but adding their inimitable style.
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