![]() Adds Nahser Fink, “When the jewelry gets passed on to someone else, the story continues. “I think jewelry has a poetry to it, and when you give it to somebody or customize it, you are adding your story to it,” says Shulman. For example, the Carousel bracelets are based on the rondelles of the Code bracelets, enlarged and ornamented with diamonds and colorful enamel, while the Codette bracelet incorporates a single Code rondelle.Īfter working together for nearly a decade, Nahser Fink and Shulman believe more strongly than ever in jewels’ narrative power. The design duo has used the Code collection as a source of ideas for expanding their offerings. The jewels have auditory as well as visual appeal, each turn of the dial making a clicking noise. The jewel’s wearer decides what combination of stones, numbers or symbols will unlock the design, so each piece is personalized. The Code designs have three-dial locks that resemble those on a suitcase. “A key wasn’t dynamic enough.” After two years in development, Shulman and Nahser Fink realized their most complex piece to date. “We were thinking about lots of things, including the idea of something that unlocks,” explains Shulman. ![]() Triton Mens 8mm Flat Edge Hammer Finish Band. Sabel Collection White Gold Diamond and Sapphire Ring. The James Banks Code collection was inspired by totems and the significant dates in a person’s life. Sabel Collection White Gold Sapphire and Diamond Channel Ring. “Cool carbon creates the electricity of a light bulb.”Įncircling the left arm are, from top, a diamond double Carousel, a Codette and a Code leather wrap bracelet on the right is a customizable Code bracelet. “Like all diamonds, black diamonds are made of carbon,” explains Shulman. Loose inside the bulb were 50 small black diamonds and one little ruby, signifying a phoenix rising from the ashes but also referring to the original light bulb’s carbon filament. The design made for Hathaway, The Lightkeeper, was composed of a small old-fashioned glass light bulb from a lab in Berkeley, California, with a metal setting crafted by Nahser Fink that allowed it to be unscrewed. “When Annie was on a long shoot in London and I was doing theater work in New York, she told me, ‘I don’t feel like I have the lights in my life,’ ” recalls Shulman. It evolved out of one of their typically erudite conversations - specifically, about the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, Thomas Edison, and something that Hathaway had said. Less than a year after Nahser Fink and Shulman met, they made their first collaborative jewel. They made their first piece together less than a year later. The design duo met when Anne Hathaway, now Shulman’s wife, commissioned Nahser Fink to make a pendant for him. Her best-known on-screen works are the Orion’s Belt worn by the cat in Men in Black (1997) and the replica of a gold Fabergé carriage used in Ocean’s 12 (2004). Nahser Fink had been making jewelry for years for her own collection, which was shown in galleries, as well as for movies. ![]() “I was always mesmerized by the craftsmanship and inherent poetry of the designs in my mother’s collection,” remembers Shulman. The twosome, who would eventually form James Banks, became fast friends, bonding over their shared love of jewelry and the stories it can tell. Shulman loved the imaginative piece and shortly afterward met Nahser Fink. ![]() Hathaway wanted to have a special Christmas present made for her boyfriend, actor and producer Adam Shulman: a leather-bound sterling-silver pendant that looked like a book and opened to reveal a page engraved with a private message. Once upon a time - well, actually just over 10 years ago - on the set of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Anne Hathaway, who was playing the White Queen, sought out the prop department’s master metalsmith, Heidi Nahser Fink. No jewelry label has an origin story quite like that of James Banks: It literally began in the midst of a fairy tale. Model: Daniella Davis at Supreme hair and makeup: Shawnelle Prestidge Top: Callicore and, below it, shakudo- and shibuichi- inlaid Gloss Swallowtail butterfly necklaces. Above: This trio of chunky gold rings includes a design from the Code collection, displayed on the forefinger. Cofounders Adam Shulman and Heidi Nahser Fink create collections infused with meaning. Independent research conducted by Prime Buyer's Report editors includes phone call surveys with customers of local businesses, checks with state agencies on license and complaint history, verification that each business has insurance coverage to protect you as a customer, phone interviews of business owners, signed agreements that they use only legal workers, and more to determine the businesses that are safe to spend with.January 5, 2020Jewelry brand James Banks’s pieces are more than pretty baubles. Consumers use the Prime Buyer's Report to avoid the scam, fraud, and businesses with low customer satisfaction
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