Tanvi Mehta

The story

My day job was at a corporate strategy firm; my evenings were spent at a basement bench learning to set stones from a retired jeweller in Pune. Five years later that bench is my studio. I cast in recycled silver — old chains, cutlery, anything reclaimable — and finish each piece by hand. I love the contrast of an unpolished, almost-rough surface against a clean line. Most of what I make is one-of-one; I don't run editions. If something speaks to you, that piece is yours and there isn't another like it anywhere. That's the only kind of jewellery I want to put in the world.