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Anna Maria Pitt

  • Jewellery maker
  • Reykjavík, Iceland
  • Master Artisan
Anna Maria Pitt Jewellery maker
Contact
Icelandic, English, French
Hours:
Monday to Friday 13:00 - 18:00
Phone:
+354 8647002
©Anna Maria Pitt

Making connections in metal

  • • Every day Anna Maria immerses herself in nature
  • • She enjoys turning an idea into an object
  • • She uses multiple components to make whole pieces

Anna Maria Pitt began her love affair with silver while polishing her mother’s silverware at the kitchen table for Christmas. It seems fitting that she later had a eureka moment at her own kitchen table with her children. Playing around with component parts, she figured out the construction of one of her signature pieces, the Poppy Bracelet. Since then, her work has embraced design and assembly. She mainly uses a cold connecting technique, working with repeat forms to build up her geometric yet feminine jewellery. Though architectural in style, her work is inspired by natural forms. She has exhibited widely in Europe and completed a residency at the Museum of Design and Applied Arts, Iceland.

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Works

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Backbone necklace

Made from sterling silver, this intricate piece is part of Anna Maria’s bespoke collection. Inspired by a wild reindeer’s vertebrae, the necklace is assembled by cold connecting 26 separate parts, emulating the animal’s spinal structure, creating an interconnecting spiral which fuses form and functionality.

Length 30 cm
Width 5 cm

Photo: ©Anna Maria Pitt
Seadragon bracelet

Made from a sterling silver band punctuated with elongated golden blades, this bespoke collection bracelet is inspired by the chameleon-like seadragon who uses the rays of the sun to camouflage himself as golden seaweed as he drifts through the ocean.

Height 30 cm
Diameter 5 cm

Photo: ©Anna Maria Pitt
Circumscale bracelet

Made from sterling silver, this bespoke collection bracelet is inspired by the way animal scales overlap to create a vigorous protective membrane. This intricate piece is assembled by connecting 166 parts, creating a bracelet of robust form and functionality.

Height 7 cm
Diameter 6 cm
Diameter 9 cm

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Helix bracelet

Made from sterling silver, this bespoke collection bracelet is inspired by the natural form of DNA. The bracelet is made by building a structural geometric grid and then covering each side with hundreds of individual elements, cold connected together, creating movement.

Height 6.7 cm
Width 3 cm

Photo: ©Anna Maria Pitt
Armorous earrings

Made from sterling silver, these geometric earrings form part of Anna Maria’s bespoke collection. Inspired by the Twin Peak Basalt formation, each earring is assembled by cold connecting eight separate parts, creating a sleeve-like form.

Height 4 cm
Width 3 cm

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Reykjavík: craft inspired by nature
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Fed with the strength of volcanoes and the frozen air coming off the sea, Reykjavík is a mystical city. Recognised as one of the cleanest cities in the world, nature is at its core, and so it has become a centre of beauty and sustainability.
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