Engelbert presents Still Life: a dialogue with Swedish ceramics

The second part in the series, photographed by Sophie Kirk in collaboration with Paul Jackson of Jackson Design, gathers nearly forty compositions in which Engelbert jewellery is placed alongside Swedish and Scandinavian studio ceramics and bronze of the same era, drawn from the Engelbert private collection and from the holdings of Jackson Design. Photographed across four palettes of moss green, beige, black and white, the images are quiet compositions in which jewellery, ceramic and bronze share the same vocabulary: weight, surface, restraint.

The pieces appear not as set decoration but as fellow protagonists. A Cross Loop ring rests on the neck of a miniature Friberg vase in Hare's Fur glaze; Drop Link rings gather at the shoulder of a Wilhelm Kåge Farsta Spirea; a Legacy Knot tassel necklace falls against a 1930s Argenta vase; a New York 66 bracelet rests on the back of a Tapio Wirkkala bronze. The ceramics offer a vocabulary of muted earth and glaze; the jewellery answers in gold.

The pairing is not incidental. Engelbert was founded in Stockholm in the same decade Wilhelm Kåge joined Gustavsberg, and the house has worked within the Swedish design tradition for four generations. The kinship is one Engelbert has long made visible in its own spaces — the Beverly Hills showroom is anchored by vintage Kåge ceramics from the house's collection. Still Life draws that practice outward and into the company of a fuller chorus of Scandinavian voices.

Still Life is conceived as a continuing programme. Each instalment will place Engelbert in conversation with a different artistic context, drawn from private collections, galleries and collaborators. Further work will be released over the coming year.