Gothic architecture
Often described as “architecture of division,” Gothic architecture starts with a whole and divides it into progressively smaller parts and details. Each element is connected to the others in a specific way, creating a balanced structure that would collapse if one element were removed. This reflects a worldview in which every space has a defined role within an absolute world designed by God.
→ Jewelry inspired by Gothic architecture: A ring set with accent diamonds to draw attention to a central stone is one example. Each element depends on the others, and removing one disrupts the balance of the whole.

Mies van der Rohe
Often contrasted with Gothic architecture as an architect of “architecture of addition,” Mies van der Rohe began with individual parts or units and repeated them as needed to form a whole. Structural stability does not depend on the balance of the whole: each structural element is stable in its own right, and the grid gives equal standing to every part. No single part is assigned a special role. Alongside advances in building technology, this approach echoes the modern scientific worldview and the idea of an ever-expanding universe.
→ Miesian jewelry: We focused on the eternity ring, in which repeated units form a whole. By freeing the design from the restrictive, authoritative setting used to hold a stone, we aimed to create jewelry inspired by Mies’s architecture.

For this collection, we interpret “Autonomy and Re-Edit” as “setting a grid and freeing each element from a fixed role”, and as the act of arranging jewelry on the body in a structured way. We present this idea through coordinated jewelry.