Shopify THE DESIGNER As a child, Lila Rice Marshall spent much of her playtime making jewelry with beads, stones, seaglass, fishhooks and other sea-faring paraphernalia and found objects. When she was 8 years old, her tool-loving mama gave Lila her very first tool: a pair of tiny jewelry-making pliers. It wasn’t long before fourth-grade contemporaries began to employ her with the repair of their broken clasps, earrings, and strings of sparkling beads. It didn’t pay much—a box of Lemonheads or perhaps some great holographic stickers—but it certainly felt like a grave responsibility and was treated as such. A decade later, Lila moved away from her native New England coastal town to the San Francisco Bay Area in academic pursuit, but she eventually came full circle when she stumbled into metalsmithing and rediscovered the joys of working with one’s own hands. After a period of selling her unique hand-hewn jewelry off of her own neck, fingers and ears, ROUND Designs Jewelry was born in the fall of 2001. Lila has since returned to the East Coast and now lives, designs, and produces her line in New York City. THE COLLECTION The collection’s aesthetic has embodied, from the very beginning, opposing elements: the masculine and the feminine, organic and industrial, a little bit rough-and-tumble but also refined. These design decisions are evident in combinations of texture, form, and material, such as the use of gold together with hammered copper, delicate studs textured with snakeprint, or a tough, heavy chain made feminine by the drape of intertwined, fine-spun lady-chains. Most metal styles are available in gold, silver, brass and copper. Although ROUND is now available worldwide, each and every piece is handcrafted and made to order in Brooklyn. <img src='http://static0.shopify.com/s/files/1/0027/4212/files/window.jpg?1233774142' alt='' /> <p><span class="caps">THE DESIGNER</span></p> <p>As a child, Lila Rice Marshall spent much of her playtime making jewelry with beads, stones, seaglass, fishhooks and other sea-faring paraphernalia and found objects. When she was 8 years old, her tool-loving mama gave Lila her very first tool: a pair of tiny jewelry-making pliers. It wasn’t long before fourth-grade contemporaries began to employ her with the repair of their broken clasps, earrings, and strings of sparkling beads. It didn’t pay much—a box of Lemonheads or perhaps some great holographic stickers—but it certainly felt like a grave responsibility and was treated as such.</p> <p>A decade later, Lila moved away from her native New England coastal town to the San Francisco Bay Area in academic pursuit, but she eventually came full circle when she stumbled into metalsmithing and rediscovered the joys of working with one’s own hands. After a period of selling her unique hand-hewn jewelry off of her own neck, fingers and ears, <span class="caps">ROUND </span>Designs Jewelry was born in the fall of 2001. Lila has since returned to the East Coast and now lives, designs, and produces her line in New York City.</p> <p><span class="caps">THE COLLECTION</span></p> <p>The collection’s aesthetic has embodied, from the very beginning, opposing elements: the masculine and the feminine, organic and industrial, a little bit rough-and-tumble but also refined. These design decisions are evident in combinations of texture, form, and material, such as the use of gold together with hammered copper, delicate studs textured with snakeprint, or a tough, heavy chain made feminine by the drape of intertwined, fine-spun lady-chains. Most metal styles are available in gold, silver, brass and copper.</p> <p>Although <span class="caps">ROUND</span> is now available worldwide, each and every piece is handcrafted and made to order in Brooklyn.</p> <p><img src='http://static0.shopify.com/s/files/1/0027/4212/files/window.jpg?1233774142' alt='' /></p> 2009-02-03T13:40:28-05:00 about-us 3092422 2009-02-03T13:40:28-05:00 274212 2009-02-04T14:09:58-05:00