Apse, The Shape Built To Hold Light

The Shape Was Borrowed From A Cathedral

There is a shape at the end of a cathedral called an apse. A curve with a vault above it, built for one purpose: to gather light and hand it back to the room.

We borrowed the shape and made it small enough to wear at the ear.

The curve does the same work at two centimeters that it does at twelve meters. Light enters the arch, travels the inside of it, and comes back out toward whoever is looking. Pavé completes the idea. Every stone set into that curve becomes another surface for light to turn on.

Why We Always Look Up

Every time Tere and I come across a dome, we stop and look up. We wonder how it was built. We look at the scale of it, how something that large holds itself together.

It happens everywhere we travel. We are always walking, always looking at buildings, and it makes the whole experience of a place better: that habit of noticing what's above you. Apse came out of that habit. The curve is the part of a dome we love most, brought down to the size of an earring.

Large Apse Earring with White Pavé Diamonds

Small Apse Earrings with White Pavé Diamonds

Cage Apse Earrings with White Pavé Diamonds

Small Double Apse Earrings with White Pavé Diamonds

Apse Crown Ring with White Pavé Diamonds

Apse Pavé Diamond Pendant Necklace

Apse Diamond Slider with White Pavé Diamonds

Double Apse Ring with One Side White Pavé Diamonds

One shape, every scale, all of them built to do the same thing.

We look up so we can wear it down.

With much love and gratitude,
Tere and Gabriela