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Minimalist jewelry collection2/12/2024 ![]() Right: This large oxidized-silver ring from her Black Love collection is composed of two seed shapes that symbolize transformation and change. I was just so intrigued by this jewelry that was basically miniature sculptures - I was fascinated by that idea of jewelry as art.” Left: A 15mm-wide 18-karat gold ring from Rabun’s 1990 collection, which was named for the year she launched her jewelry brand in London. “I discovered this beautiful shop, M Gallery,” she explains, and “it just opened up a whole new world for me. In her early 20s, however, she had something of an artistic epiphany. Did her peripatetic childhood ignite an early creative spark for jewelry design? “I wasn’t interested at all,” she says with a chuckle. They were stationed in Texas and Alaska before finally settling in California around the time she started junior high. Rabun, whose father was in the air force, was born in Germany, and she and her family lived there until she was three years old, when they were transferred back to the U.S. Top: Rabun, who moved back to California in 2020 after three decades in London, launched her eponymous jewelry brand in 1990 and has been collaborating with Georg Jensen since 2000. Right: Jacqueline Rabun for Georg Jensen STERLING-SILVER Offspring hoop earrings. Left: Pieces from Jacqueline Rabun‘s collections for Georg Jensen (photo by Line Klein/courtesy of Georg Jensen). ![]() “I thought maybe it’s time to spend some time in California.” As a designer whose work is rooted in her family life and personal experiences, and who spent much of her childhood moving around, this desire for a sense of home is not surprising. You wouldn’t guess she’s a fairly recent West Coast transplant.Īfter spending 32 years in London, Rabun moved back to the States in October 2020 like so many during the pandemic, she craved the familiar. Dressed in a crisp white button-down and gold jewelry, a mix of her work and that of fellow Georg Jensen collaborators -an open bangle watch by Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, for instance - she is the picture of effortless California chic. The jewelry designer is speaking to Introspective from her home in Los Angeles. Jacqueline Rabun looks radiant even on Zoom.
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