Fay Andrada Hand-Forged Sculptural and Minimalist Jewelry

Fay Andrada's sculptural jewelry is shaped by hand at the workbench, where hammers, files, and flame draw organic lines out of metal. The surfaces keep the small irregularities of that process and catch the light differently each time you move. The marks of the maker's hand stay in every pair of her sculptural earrings, and they are what make a pair feel personal to wear.

Designer Fay Andrada founded the brand in 2010 in New York City, where she lived for 25 years. She was raised in Connecticut by an architect father from the Philippines and a mother from Finland, then studied in New York, Paris, and London before earning a master's degree in graphic design. Metalsmithing came later, during a sabbatical year in Maine, and it has been her full-time work ever since. Her idea of minimalist jewelry leaves room for imagination. Earrings, rings, and necklaces in gold vermeil and silver are worked down to a few deliberate curves, with enough texture to read as small sculptures. Fay still forges the metal herself, and every piece of her artisan jewelry is finished by hand alongside a small team of makers in New York and Rhode Island.

Gold vermeil earrings wear easily alone or mixed into a stack of handmade jewelry in silver and gold. Next to a silk scarf or a belt, they bring a hand-forged texture to the rest of the day's accessories. Against a tailored blazer designed in Brooklyn and sewn in a New York City factory, a single piece of her jewelry breaks up the clean lines of the cut with something shaped by hand.