Christie’s Islamic Jewels

London, 2023

Client: Christie’s

Materials: Tyvek

We were commissioned for the London presentation of Islamic Jewels, responding to a curatorial brief for a geometric intervention that would resonate with the precision, symmetry, and material intelligence of the works on display. The installation was required to be visually rigorous yet materially restrained, offering spatial structure without distraction.

Panels originally developed for Chinese Laundry were selected from our archive and reconfigured for the gallery context. Suspended on tension wires with minimal fixing points, the system introduced rhythm, depth, and alignment while remaining fully reversible. The panels’ white surface created a neutral yet tactile field, heightening the jewellery’s colour, scale, and craftsmanship. Rather than functioning as an object in its own right, the installation operated as a spatial framework — guiding movement, sightlines, and pause — allowing visitors to encounter the collection through a calibrated dialogue between geometry, light, and material.