glssnt (pronounced ‘gliss-ent’) elevates fragments of the city into fine silver jewellery. Each piece is unique, handcrafted from 925 sterling silver and salvaged car and bike reflectors. Wearing them awards plastic waste an afterlife, and reflects the urban environment’s growing materiality. Combining the traditional techniques of silversmithing, construction and soldering with Surrealist practices of détournement, assemblage and gleaning, glssnt transforms the residues of accidents into objects of adornment worth noticing.
Unique. Reflective. Born of the city.
Handcrafted silver ring, set with red reflector. Its flame-like curvature emerged from a brainstorm for a ring commission inspired by Alaska’s glaciers whilst listening to Shirley Bassey’s ‘Light my Fire.’
Origin: About the Bike, 124B Dalston Lane, E8 1NG
Ring size: Q
Sizes are fixed, but can be stretched or remade - please let me know your desired ring size when ordering. Ships in a velvet embroidered pouch with Royal Mail (tracked).
Photo credit: Will Tsukuda
Handcrafted silver ring, set with blue reflector. Inspired by Morpheus’ offer of a choice to Neo in The Matrix: “You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe what you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
Origin: Mactanweg 3, 1437 ER Rozenburg
Ring size: M
Sizes are fixed, but can be stretched or remade - please let me know your desired ring size when ordering. Ships in a velvet embroidered pouch.
Handcrafted silver ring, set with green reflector. Encases a six-point snowflake, inspired by BRAT summer.
Origin: Mactanweg 3, 1437 ER Rozenburg
Ring size: F (pinkie ring)
Sizes are fixed, but can be stretched or remade - please let me know your desired ring size when ordering. Ships in a velvet embroidered pouch with Royal Mail (tracked).
Handcrafted silver ring, set with yellow reflector. Irregular and dagger-toothed, this heart shaped ring was inspired by Egon Schiele’s sharp drawing style and Heather Davis’ notion of ‘techno-fossils.’
Origin: About the Bike, 124B Dalston Lane, E8 1NG
Ring size: O
Sizes are fixed, but can be stretched or remade - please let me know your desired ring size when ordering. Ships in a velvet embroidered pouch with Royal Mail (tracked).
Photo credit: Will Tsukuda
Handcrafted silver ring, set with red reflector. Inspired by Morpheus’ offer of a choice to Neo in The Matrix: “You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe what you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
Origin: Sapcote Trading Estate, 374 High Road, NW10 2EA
Ring size: M
Sizes are fixed, but can be stretched or remade - please let me know your desired ring size when ordering. Ships in a velvet embroidered pouch.
Photo credit: Will Tsukuda
Handcrafted silver ring, set with white reflector. Gothic, leaf-like and ornate, with a quatrefoil shape inspired by the pattern on a French floor grille. Named after Man Ray’s photographic portrait of Marcel Duchamp’s alter ego Rrose Sélavy.
Origin: 67–73 Avenue de Grammont, Tours, France, 37000.
Ring size: R/S
Sizes are fixed, but can be stretched or remade - please let me know your desired ring size when ordering. Ships in a velvet embroidered pouch with Royal Mail (tracked).
Photo credit: Will Tsukuda
Handcrafted silver ring, set with amber reflector. Gothic, leaf-like and ornate, with a quatrefoil shape inspired by the patterns on a French floor grille. Named after Man Ray’s photographic portrait of Marcel Duchamp’s alter ego Rrose Sélavy.
Origin: 67–73 Avenue de Grammont, Tours, France, 37000.
Ring size: P
Sizes are fixed, but can be stretched or remade - please let me know your desired ring size when ordering. Ships in a velvet embroidered pouch with Royal Mail (tracked).
Photo credit: Will Tsukuda
Handcrafted silver ring, set with white reflector. Irregular and dagger-toothed, this heart-shaped ring was inspired by Egon Schiele’s sharp drawing style and Heather Davis’ notion of ‘techno-fossils.’
Origin: About the Bike, 124B Dalston Lane, E8 1NG
Ring size: L
Sizes are fixed, but can be stretched or remade - please let me know your desired ring size when ordering. Ships in a velvet embroidered pouch with Royal Mail (tracked).
Photo credit: Will Tsukuda
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