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Transforming Design - MyriamSOS

Award winning jewellery designer Myriam Soseilos of MyriamSOS Fine jewellery has

had some interesting commissions, but none have been more unusual than the

request to turn a woman’s spine into a body chain.

“The client said she’d had an accident five years before and wanted a piece of

jewellery that looked identical to her permanently injured spine, but in miniature,”

explains Myriam. “She sent me her MRI scans and I created a white and rose gold

pendant with diamonds. She was very happy with the result.”

Myriam’s design career began while she was working at a top communications

agency, making jewellery in her spare time. By 2008, people had begun asking if they

could buy her pieces and requesting bespoke designs. “I started to ask fundamental

questions about jewellery. Why should rings be round? Why should a ring with red

gems look red? Why should a piece of jewellery have only a single function?”

Myriam employed a design tutor and set up a workshop below her house, studying

jewellery techniques every night after work. In 2010, she quit her job, moved to

London to study at Central Saint Martins, and set up her eponymous company.