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Byline: Irini Arakas
My collection of wood rings is what I call 'pure design,' " says Christine J. Brandt, a new designer who lives and works in a log cabin built by her father in the hills of Pennsylvania. The 36-year-old explores other ideas of forestry with her new line of sculptural jewelry. In her cabin, she hand-carves and polishes African black ebony, wenge, and zebra wood into swirling, sensuous forms. Then she tops them off with dollops of garnet, azurite, and amethyst. Brandt, who ...