GLSSNT (pronounced ‘gliss-ent’) elevates fragments of the city into fine silver jewellery. Each piece is unique, handcrafted from 935 sterling silver and salvaged car and bike reflectors, combined with real preserved petals and corticolous lichen. All reflect the materiality of the urban environment as it currently stands. By combining the traditional techniques of silversmithing with assemblage and gleaning, GLSSNT transforms these ‘waste’ materials into objects of adornment worth noticing.
Unique. Light-sensitive. Born of the city.
Handcrafted silver earrings, set with blue reflector. An urban Heart of the Ocean, drawing out the visual language of policing into a single tear.
Origin: unknown
Ships in a velvet blue hand-embroidered pouch with Royal Mail 1st class.
Purple phalaenopsis orchid labellums and tulip petals, carefully preserved in resin. Assembled with 935 sterling silver hoops. A true statement.
Origin: Columbia Road Flower Market, London, E2 7RG
Ships in a velvet blue hand-embroidered pouch with Royal Mail 1st class.
Handcrafted silver ring, set with red and white reflectors. Inspired by London’s nocturnal wildlife, I asked Italia Uno’s youngest employee to draw me a fox tail - this design was based on her drawing.
Origin: About The Bike, 124B Dalston Lane, E8 1NG
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 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 with Royal Mail (tracked).
Photo credit: Will Tsukuda
Handcrafted silver earrings, set with green reflector and lichen from a London plane tree carefully preserved in resin. Each bark fragment is unique - see images for subtle variations in shape and texture.
Origin: 48 Lisburne Road, London, NW3 2NR
Ships in a velvet blue hand-embroidered pouch with Royal Mail 1st class.
Handcrafted silver earrings, set with red reflector and lichen from a London plane tree carefully preserved in resin. Each bark fragment is unique - see images for subtle variation in shape and texture.
Origin: 25 Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2NS
Ships in a velvet blue hand-embroidered pouch with Royal Mail 1st class.
Handcrafted silver earrings, set with blue star-shaped reflector. Assemblaged with ‘Cezanne’ clematis petal preserved in resin. Wear the twilight zone between midnight and spring.
Origin: 42 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 7DB
Ships in a velvet blue hand-embroidered pouch with Royal Mail 1st class.
Handcrafted silver earrings, set with white reflector and lilac ‘Mistral Grape’ anemone petal preserved in resin.
Origin: 100-102 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3AE
Ships in a velvet blue hand-embroidered pouch with Royal Mail 1st class.
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. 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 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 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
GLSSNT takes its name from the French poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant, who wrote in 1969: “To live the landscape with passion. To bring it out of the indistinct, to search it, to light it up among ourselves (click on the drawing for more).” Glissant may have been describing the natural world of contrasts native to his homeland Martinique, but the same logic can be applied to the city. Here, the effects of global industrialisation have left us with a fractured playground of material juxtapositions: plastic glistens on the side of the road, merging with an organic presence striving to coexist within systems designed for profit and efficiency. A playground we can continue to ignore, or choose to inherit and wear out the burn out we might just leave our children. GLSSNT is a way of relating to what emerges from the debris. It listens to the business-as-usual race to compete, and provides an alternative source of inspiration located right under your feet.
“To live the landscape with passion. To bring it out of the indistinct, to search it, to light it up among ourselves.”
— Édouard Glissant (1969)