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Sizing is such a personal thing and the look of a garment changes completely when you choose to wear a garment fitted or relaxed. Think about the mood you want to create and what you will team it with when wearing the garment for example: for a dressier corporate look you may want to choose a darker colour for an elegant, formal feeling and a lighter one for weekends. This will guide you to to make smart decisions to have reliable outfits in your wardrobe that work together. Where possible we now add the model size and fit under each product description to help with your choice as well. If upon receiving your garment you would like to change the size it is our pleasure to exchange this free of charge. A wee styling tip to see you on your way while wardrobe planning for the coming season: Balance: If you're wearing an oversized top keep the bottoms slimline or mini and take advantage of tights during winter to rock shorts and make it all about legs. The same goes in reverse: if wearing wide-leg or drawstring relaxed pants, wear something tight on top, tuck it in and if you feel like you need more, throw and oversized jacket for drama and roll up the sleeves to expose wrists and team with a statement ring or bracelets. Have fun and experiment! |
Pure Silver Ring
Made in New Zealand
The Brian Brake Ring is a sculptural piece of wearable architecture inspired by the modernist legacy of Titirangi and the celebrated pavilion-style home designed for photographer Brian Brake by architect Ron Sang in 1976. Situated in the lush bush of Auckland’s Waitākere Ranges, the house—described by Sang as “a tree-house suspended over the tree tops”—bridges landscape, architecture, and atmosphere.
Crafted through a process of architectural translation, the ring began with original house plans that were sand-cast in pure silver. Two silver bands beneath symbolise the dual pavilions connected by a bridge, spanning two fingers as an embodied reference to the home’s elevated platform. Silver deck and triangular elements evoke the site’s geometry and lightness, contrasting with the ring’s rectangular form.
Both statement piece and intimate artefact, the Brian Brake Ring transforms architectural history into wearable storytelling—connecting body, place, and modernist heritage through material, memory, and design.
Gina Hochstein is an Auckland-based artist, jeweller, and architectural academic whose practice sits at the intersection of jewellery, architecture, and embodied experience. Her creative output explores how objects worn on the body can function as intimate architectural sites—framing relationships between memory, identity, domesticity, and space.
Recently submitting a PhD in Creative Practice titled Dwelling in Jewellery at the University of Auckland, Gina investigates the underexplored relationship between women, modernist architecture, and jewellery through making, oral histories, and material experimentation. Her pieces often draw inspiration from New Zealand modernist houses, translating architectural elements into wearable forms that engage the body through tactility, movement, and sensation.
Alongside her studio practice, Gina contributes to architectural discourse through academic writing, conference presentations, exhibitions, and public talks that foreground gender, material culture, and creative practice. Her work has been presented in architectural and public forums, offering new perspectives on architecture as lived, embodied experience.
Each jewellery piece is both an artefact and a story—connecting body, place, and architectural memory through thoughtful craftsmanship and conceptual depth.
