Custom photo jewellery, designed and made in the UK
Making the jewellery
Ollie works closely with UK-based designers and manufacturers to create Remember's jewellery.
There are four steps to this process.
Discretion - in meaning, if not in style - is the guiding principle for Remember’s jewellery.
The idea is that you can choose whether to tell others about the meaning behind your jewellery. That’s why Ollie emphasises elegant, minimalist shapes that aren't especially symbolic.
Step 1 (of 4)
Inspiration
The process starts with creating a miniature version of the customer’s photo. To do this, Ollie uses a special kind of film to shrink the photos down to about 2mm².
He then sends the film off to a lab to be developed.
Step 1 (of 3)
Creating the miniature photo
Making the Stanhopes
All of Remember’s Stanhopes are made by Ollie in the company’s Cambridge workshop.
This is an intricate, three-step process.
Step 1
Creating the miniature photo
The process starts with creating a miniature version of the customer’s photo. To do this, Ollie uses a special kind of film to shrink the photos down to about 2mm².
He then sends the film off to a lab to be developed.
Step 2
Attaching the photo to the lens
Once the film arrives back from the lab, the next step is to attach the miniature photo to a Stanhope lens.
This is more complicated than it sounds. For example, the lens and the photo need to be completely clean. Even the tiniest bit of dust will be magnified by the Stanhope lens, ruining the finished product.
Ollie uses a special, long-lasting resin to attach the photo to the lens. He then places a protective coverslip on top of the photo.
Step 3
Curing the lens
Finally, the Stanhopes need to be cured.
To do this, Ollie places them on a slide warmer that’s set to a precise temperature and uses a fan to circulate the air around them. They’re then left for two weeks until they’re fully cured.
Finally, the Stanhopes need to be cured.
To do this, Ollie places them on a slide warmer that’s set to a precise temperature and uses a fan to circulate the air around them. They’re then left for two weeks until they’re fully cured.
Step 3 (of 3)
Curing the lens
Stanhope jewellery is part jewellery, part optical device.
This unusual combination poses a unique design challenge: not only does the jewellery need to look beautiful, but it also has to meet specific technical requirements in order to display a sharp hidden image.
Ollie works closely with UK-based jewellery designers to meet this challenge.
They start the painstaking process with hand drawings of the jewellery, before moving to either wax carving or CAD (computer-aided design).
Step 2 (of 4)
Design
Once the film arrives back from the lab, the next step is to attach the miniature photo to a Stanhope lens.
This is more complicated than it sounds. For example, the lens and the photo need to be completely clean. Even the tiniest bit of dust will be magnified by the Stanhope lens, ruining the finished product.
Ollie uses a special, long-lasting resin to attach the photo to the lens. He then places a protective coverslip on top of the photo.
Step 2 (of 3)
Attaching the photo to the lens
Making the jewellery
Ollie works closely with UK-based designers and manufacturers to create Remember's jewellery.
There are four steps to this process.
Making Stanhope-jewellery
The final step is to combine the Stanhope and the jewellery. This is done by Ollie in Remember’s Cambridge workshop.
He carefully selects the best Stanhope for each order before securing it in place inside the jewellery.
Step 1
Inspiration
Discretion - in meaning, if not in style - is the guiding principle for Remember’s jewellery.
The idea is that you can choose whether to tell others about the meaning behind your jewellery. That’s why Ollie emphasises elegant, minimalist shapes rather than ones with great symbolism.
Step 2
Design
Stanhope jewellery is part jewellery, part optical device.
This unusual combination poses a unique design challenge: not only does the jewellery need to look beautiful, but it also has to meet specific technical requirements in order to display a sharp hidden image.
Ollie works closely with UK-based jewellery designers to meet this challenge.
They start the painstaking process with hand drawings of the jewellery, before moving to either wax carving or CAD (computer-aided design).
