Nature’s own design. Handcrafted silver
jewellery with forms from the forests, meadows and beaches in the Finnish
archipelago.

  • Apple blossom

    Apple blossom is a song of praise to childhood
    memories of our garden and those magical days in May when my father had just
    mowed the grass for the first time and summer seemed to burst out overnight.
    The lawn demanded we went bare foot and the sky disappeared behind all the
    flowering branches. How excitedly I stretched towards those branches!  I stood on my toes to examine the trails of
    pink in the white and the fragile attachments of the feather light petals. I
    wanted to capture all that ethereal beauty that would soon fall like snow onto
    the ground. So perfect, so fleeting.

  • Blue mussel

    When I stand in the lapping waves on the seashore with
    sand between my toes and sun in my hair, I immediately become a treasure hunter.
    I am looking for blue mussels, tiny, small, large; some closed protecting their
    secrets, some open, like shining pearly maps. Carefully, cautiously, I walk
    along the water's edge so as not to accidentally step on them. If you look
    carefully you can see that each shell is like a fingerprint, unique in its
    scorings, curvature and shades of darkness. The patterns and shifts in the
    mussels I design - which are never ever exactly the same – are not only a
    reminder of nature's immense complexity, but also of its vulnerability and the
    importance of protecting it.

  • Blueberry / Blueberryleaves

    With a picnic basket on my arm, my mother, brother and
    I once escaped from the midsummer heat into the forest. We waded through the
    sprigs of blueberries. Under the swaying tops of the pine trees, the light
    played awkwardly with the shadows and caused the blueberry leaves to flicker
    like light green flames in the bear moss. I was so enchanted by the lustre of the
    leaves that it took time for me to see the berries beneath them, that they were
    already round and blue as the hour between dusk and midnight. We forgot
    everything we had in the basket and only ate the berries. Even now I can't
    think of a cleaner sweetness. It is from this memory that I have fashioned the
    blueberry jewellery.

The company

  • Generally

    On Kimitoön, in an old barn a stone's throw from the sea, lies the workshop where Own Design jewelry is made. If the wind blows from the south, the scent of the sea finds its way in, and if the wind blows from the north, the scent of the forest.

    Behind the design and craftsmanship is Henna Renfors, herself born and raised on the island where she now runs her company and finds the inspiration for her jewelry art.

    It is in the nature of the archipelago, in its mixture of fertile and barren, sea and land, beauty and harshness that her aesthetic sense has awakened. It is this nature that she reproduces in her jewelry. True to life, with respect and love.