Pinecone Chain Necklace
Regular price $ 635.00by Danielle Merzatta
Morristown, NJ
The pieces are carefully Cast into gold, sterling or bronze in a process very similar to the 'Lost Wax Process', an ancient practice of creating forms from structures. Merzatta works by covering the organic material in a plaster-like investment, and then putting it in a hot oven that burns the original away—an 'Organic Burn Out.' This leaves a cavity behind in the investment that is exactly the shape of what was once there.
Molten metal is poured into that cavity to trap a copy of the original so that everything that was once pinecone, for example, is now sterling.
Airy pinecone studs linked with gorgeous open loops form a beautiful chain that can be adjusted to any length.
- Dimensions: 18" long
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