Nest Creates

It takes time to create a bespoke piece of jewellery, from deciding to commission a piece and meeting the designer to selecting the final design, being involved with the gemstones selection, and following the production processes; including modelling the patterns, casting the precious metal, cleanin

Kate and Zoe are renoun for making beautiful bespoke jewellery but they have another string to their bow – mentoring students and new graduates. They are looking forwards to presenting a marketing seminar for the jewellery designer / makers; of the incubation support programme ‘DESIGN SPACE‘ set up

For the past few weeks Zoe Phillips and I have been collating all the trend information that we have gathered to identify what we think will be the 2012 trend directions. Why were we doing this? We were invited by the Interior and Lifestyle Futures action group to deliver a short course on the impac

5th July 2011 – SHORT COURSE: EMERGING TRENDS: EXPLORE AND EXPLOIT On this interactive workshop you will learn how to identify and interpret emerging trends and develop this information into winning designs. This one day course will start with a short seminar covering where trends emerge from, how t

The launch for London Jewellery Week 2011 was held at the prestigious Royal Exchange; home to famous jewellery houses such as Tiffany & Co, Theo Fennell, Boodles, De Beers and many more. A perfect location to commence the exciting start of this year’s events. Inside, Britain’s leading jewellery desi

Thought you might like to see some of the other work Zoe and I have collaborated on. We have been designing the prestigious WHA trophies since 2006, the winning projects are presented with the sterling silver trophy and a £10,000 World Habitat Award by the Building and Social Housing Foundation. The

I decided to write this blog when a friend told me that the white gold engagement ring her partner had bought her made her finger really sore, leaving a red mark and blisters on her finger. Now I am not an expert on dermatology per say, but I have gathered some information about skin reactions [...]

Nest Creates jewellery featured in the latest issue of the World Wide Weddings magazine as the first step to A-list Style. "Having anything specially created for you and knowing that it is completely unique, feels like the ultimate luxury, but can be more affordable than you think," say Kate Thorley

Bespoke Jewellery for Weddings. Something old, something new, Something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe.

Nest Creates designed a platinum & 18ct white gold engagement ring with a 1/3ct diamond and a fitted wedding band housing a natural cognac diamond for a couple who were happy to be used in our web film. Their story was captured in a sketch book animation.