Bahar

Spring's pieces, drawn straight from the Nowruz table.

Bahar is the Persian word for spring, and this collection opens with the season itself. The Bahar Bangle carries the floral vocabulary of the Persian garden around the wrist: pomegranate flowers, almond blossom, and the stylised rosettes found in Persian tilework and manuscript illumination, circling the metal in a continuous band of renewal. The Haftsin Bracelet carries the wider ritual that spring brings with it, the Nowruz new year table known as haft-sin: every link on the bracelet is a different thing, and together they form one complete record of the table, worn rather than laid out once a year and put away. Both pieces are worked in solid gold, spring rendered in a metal that never fades from one Nowruz to the next.

Three more pieces take their objects straight from the haft-sin table. The Ayneh Pendant borrows the table's mirror and makes the idea a material fact rather than a metaphor: held to the light, it gives light back and becomes its own small mirror. The Mahi Brooch takes its name from the goldfish kept in a bowl on the table, that flash of orange-gold moving through clear water, an aliveness the brooch holds still on the body as an assertion of life. The Tokhm-e-Morgh Studs take the painted eggs of the table and hold the form itself in gold, undecorated: the quiet, round shape families mark the turning of the year with, honest rather than embellished. Each one is small enough for daily wear, spring kept close rather than kept for one table, one day a year.

Where Ayneh and Tokhm-e-Morgh look outward to a shared table, Tahvil looks inward, to a single point in time. Tahvil names the exact instant the Persian new year turns, and this ring is built for that same kind of moment in a life: not an everyday ring, but one put on when something has genuinely changed, or when a change is being marked on purpose. At £5,500, it sits among the collection's more considered pieces, worn the way haft-sin itself is kept, not for one day only but carried forward afterwards. Bahar runs from the Tokhm-e-Morgh Studs at £895 to the Mahi Brooch at £7,500, every piece solid gold and made to order in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter: spring, carried past its season.