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In these xenophobic times, the work celebrates globalism as it references many cultures and is crafted from materials sourced from every corner of the globe The only materials we could afford in those dimensions were aluminum, cork, wire, and plexiglass, but we were able to make jewelry with an attitude, pieces that say 'look at me' not because of their material value but more because of their brave, humble-and in our opinion-consensus-leveling design You are trained as goldsmiths but use mostly other materials, why?Nikolai: For us, the material is second to the design, and our design is big, bombastic, and full of textures and volume.

Where do you find them?Nikolai: Working with these materials for 40 or so years, we have personal contacts all over the world who write us when they find what we like, [which is] not the perfect, flawless pieces but rather the unusual and the untraditional ones that stand out and are unique What is the most unusual material you've worked with?Nikolai: We mostly work with obscure and unusual materials to be honest, the most astounding materials are often the most common, just treated in a new way We are always looking to source our materials ethically so that we do no harm to the people and nature that provide the magnificent materials we work with.

Another part of our work is very un-Danish in its flamboyancy and over-the-top use of the materials. . Source