Christopher Thompson Royds

Exhibited at DESIGN MIAMI. 2023 Since discovering pressed flowers preserved as species identifiers in the Sir Hans Sloane Herbarium at the Natural History Museum in London, Christopher Thompson Royds has been exploring the tradition of flowers as a decorative motif in jewellery and the associated themes of permanence and decay. Hand-pierced from paper-thin gold and silver and often delicately hand-painted, his objects and jewels immortalise the evocatively named flowers that decorate Britain’s hedgerows and verges, like meadow vetch, hop trefoil, lady’s smock. Materials: bronze, brass and fine silver.