Jewellery label makes colourful debut

Most Common Most Rare (MCMR) will be exhibiting in London Jewellery Week’s prestigious “Treasure” exhibit featuring 40 of London’s cutting-edge jewellery designers.

The brand new London-based label has been in shops since the end of February 2008, exclusively in leading fashion jewellery retailer Kabiri and the Kabiri concession in Selfridges, and has recently been featured in the NY Times Style Magazine and InStyle.

Most Common Most Rare’s signature resin bangles are reproductions of antique tribal originals, from remote regions of Central Asia. The secretly sourced artefacts are singular 19th century pieces that have been transformed into luminous resin, making the rare available and modern. Despite the innovative reproducibility of the bangles, each piece comes from a single mould and is hand-finished, retaining its exclusive individuality.

Decorative patterns that allude to locks and keys run throughout the collection, visually mediating between elements of traditional and mass manufacture.

The label’s key-tooth pendants are constructed from the teeth of original Georgian keys, separated from their barrel stems and hung as relics of the dawn of the age of industry, trophy pieces of formal manufacture, black and rough on sparking gold chains.

Indo-Industrial, Broken Sunray, and Smokestack earrings are decorated with shapes like functional cogs, wires, and machinery, cut from luxurious silver and gold and soldered onto large hoops, creating a visual harmony between tribal carvings and industrial objects.

Prices range from £58 to £210. See Mostcommonmostrare.co.uk for more information.