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A little known fact about Eny Lee Parker—the Brooklyn artist known for her puffy chairs and playful white ceramics—is that she began her career in jewelry. After receiving her masters in furniture design at Savannah College of Art and Design, Parker felt daunted with the level of business savvy and factory-know-how it would take to launch her own brand within that space. So she decided to start small, instead crafting a line of her own accessories. “That’s how I made a living,” says Parker. “It’s how I started my business.”
Although she didn’t stay small for long: Parker is now a staple at high-profile design fairs like Design Miami, with her lamps in particular viewed as a hot commodity. But on May 28, she returns to her roots with a new jewelry collection with London-based brand Missoma.
The collection, which includes necklaces, rings, and earrings, takes cues from Parker’s signature ceramics style: oversized plump white studs bear a resemblance to her Puffy Daisy sconce, as does the Puffy Dome cuff bracelet. “I wanted to keep playing with the bulbous type of shapes,” Parker says, adding that her Missoma pieces are “chubby, puffy and curvy.”
Meanwhile, there’s an emphasis on both gold and silver hoops—Parker’s favorite earring type. “I wear hoops on a daily basis,” she says. “That s what I would wear the most.”
Much of the collection is crafted in wavy molten gold metal, giving it a visual complexity. Another material Parker embraced? Pearls, which exude a creamy sheen similar to the neutral color palette she uses for her ceramic furniture work.
There’s also a sweet nod to her own beginnings with a flower charm necklace—a piece that she’s made in various iterations over the years.
It’s just the latest in-the-know-creative collaboration for Missoma, who also created a line with designer Harris Reed right after he graduated from Central Saint Martins. “I have long been a fan of Eny’s work and had been lusting over the ‘Oo Lamp,’ so I reached out first as a fan and client,” founder Marisa Hordern says. “Then Eny came to London: we met, bonded, and had such an immediate connection that evolved into an exploration of bringing her work to life as a piece of jewelry. Eny’s aesthetic marries so perfectly with the organic and soft undulating lines of our collections.”
And both Horden and Parker herself are pleased with the results: “It became this collection of really playful, cute, sweet jewelry,” the latter adds.
Shop an edit of the collaboration below.
