Thursday, October 30, 2008

Vintage Charm

Vintage is all the rage on runway and red carpet alike, but Elizabeth Ngo takes the look a step, or rather a couple centuries, further with her line of singular vintage jewelry.

While many jewelry designers today try to emulate the fashions of the glamorous past, Ngo actually takes buttons from Victorian and Edwardian Europe to build her miniature pieces of art in the form of delicate and distinguished bracelets and rings.

Each piece of Elizabeth Ngo’s antique button jewelry is a unique representation of the extraordinary period of art and history from which the original buttons came. Ranging from finely detailed castings to glass buttons bursting with colour and character, each is set carefully within lustrous sterling silver -- a perfect marriage between vintage and modern design.

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