How do you know that gold is trending? When the taste-making multi-label retailer Dover Street Market gets in on the lustrous metal, that’s when. This month, Dover Street Market Singapore is presenting Gold Market, an exhibition of international jewellery designer collections built around that very simple but alluring theme.
The exhibition features 14 jewellery designer brands from around the world, each bringing to the showcase varied interpretations of how gold is used in contemporary design. The project, according to a statement from Dover Street Market Singapore, celebrates and unites international, regional and local designers through the shared medium of gold.
Gold’s nearly universal appeal shines through the many styles on offer. Textured surfaces and a look of the organic are threads that connect the surreal nature-inspired designs of Alice Waese, Martina Kocianova’s carved gemstone mushrooms, and the locally-sourced Siam gold of Bangkok jeweller Patcharavipa. In search of graphic, ordered silhouettes? The cult-favourite stacked rings by Spinelli Kilcollin are in town; as are fine, handmade chain designs by Tokyo label HUM; and the thrillingly spare minimalism of Shihara.
“Gold holds both memory and momentum,” comments Lin Ruiyin, the co-founder and principal designer of Singapore jewellery brand State Property, one of the 14 on show at Gold Market. The precious metal, she says, “reflects the past yet continues to move forward, much like the stories we tell through our work.”
Here, a look at the 14 designers on show at Gold Market, a jewellery exhibition on now at Dover Street Market Singapore until 4 December 2025.
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Shihara
The minimalism of Japanese jewellery brand Shihara is based on function. For proof: see the brilliant Node collection of baby Akoya pearls, a modular system that can be transformed by removable gold clasps. Also remarkable is a line of solitaire rings set with unusual diamond cuts: rectangular see-through portrait cuts, hexagonal shapes, half moons joined to form a circle, and more.
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HUM
Hum jewels are subtle creatures. The creations by this Tokyo brand, founded in 2012 by craftsman Tomohiro Sadakiyo and designer Yuka Inanuma, are guided by material itself. It shows (or feels, rather) when you put a piece on. Don’t miss the chain designs, which have the kinds of curves and volumes you tend to only find in fine vintage.
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Alice Waese
New York-based designer Alice Waese draws inspiration from the wonders of nature, crafting jewels with a surreal, poet’s point of view. The organic forms of her designs are adorned with precious and semi-precious stones—look out for her more unusual choices like grey and black diamonds.
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Thing In Itself
Founded in 2019, the Singapore brand Thing In Itself plays with the visual meanings of a worn object. Kantian considerations aside, what’s easy enough to appreciate is the bold, sculptural attitude of their pieces. The brand is launching Continuum, its sixth collection, at Gold Market, with pieces that explores unbroken cycles of shapes and silhouettes.
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State Property
The Singapore fine jewellery brand State Property counts architecture and Art Deco among its strongest influences. On show and of note at Gold Market: the jeweller’s sensuous tubogas Raisina jewels, which turn the classic technique on its head with emerald and diamond ornaments.
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Casio
There’s a good chance you’ve seen one of these cult favourite ring watches by Casio, a unique and playful style that, yes, does indeed tell the time. It’s thanks to newly developed miniature modules that the brand has downsized a watch to about a tenth of its size, so you get accessories as playful as they are useful.
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Kasmira's Moon
The London-based designer, painter and illustrator Alexandra Jefford is a true artist jeweller. Kasmira’s Moon is Jefford’s more playful collection, which started as a fairytale book. The designer turned the magical motifs and characters into talismans, which embody a charming if highbrow naïveté.
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Patcharavipa
Contemporary fine jewellery label Patcharavipa is a cult favourite and hot name from the Southeast Asian region now. Earlier this year, it introduced a limited edition ear cuff in collaboration with Aesop. When forced to choose a favourite, founder ‘Pat’ Bodiratnangkura told us she was particularly proud of this necklace, a chain design with bold yet delicate diamond-set links.
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Castro Smith
The award-winning London engraver and goldsmith Castro Smith brings a background of painting and printmaking to his designs. Each piece is engraved by hand, and their intricate patterns tell rich stories, tales influenced by Smith’s obsessions with European and Japanese aesthetics, history, myths and creatures.
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Martina Kocianova
A graduate of jewellery design at Central Saint Martins, the designer Martina Kocianova later studied Japanese jewellery craft in Tokyo. Her signature design today is the humble mushroom, turned through gem carving, hand engraving and stone setting into modern heirlooms meant to symbolise luck and magic.
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Spinelli Kilcollin
The California brand Spinelli Kilcollin is best known for its interconnected rings—looped and joined together, but designed so they can be worn stacked or across multiple fingers. The brand’s pieces are handcrafted in Los Angeles, as they have been since it was founded in 2010.
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Moritz Glik
Born in Brazil and now based in New York, designer Moritz Glik combines traditional jeweller’s techniques with playful avant-garde styles. Make sure to give his Shaker jewels a, well, shake. Gemstones—diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, Paraíba tourmalines and opals among them—are encased in gold and clear white sapphire, left free-floating and unset to dance with every gesture.
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O Thongthai
The Bangkok designer O Thongthai debuted her first jewellery collection in 2014, and is known for a contemporary perspective that merges masculine and feminine touches. Her latest coup: Swoosh signet rings she first introduced in South Korea at the TOMA Seoul event by Nike. Previously offered in only sterling silver, versions in gold are making their debut at Gold Market in Singapore.
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Farbey & Myszczynski
The designers Joshua Myszczynski and Richard Farbey met in 2019 at the Camberwell College of Art, and have been collaborators since. The former is a self-taught bench jeweller, and the latter a graduate of Central Saint Martins’s jewellery design programme. As a pair, their designs have the curiosity and playfulness of a young artist. Some standouts: a line of gemstone pendants in the shape of burly golems that express different emotions.
