The floating bell, the tassel beneath. Whole earrings no. 1 are the longest, most dramatic earrings in the collection — a small openwork silver dome suspended below the lobe on a fine chain, with a cascade of finer chains pouring beneath it, long enough to brush the collarbone.
The bell-shape pulled from everywhere at once: a domed classical colonnade, the radial structure of a radiolaria, the dome of a jellyfish trailing its tentacles, the dendrites of a physalis flower. Sterling silver, made to move — the chains shift with every turn.