Lusterbone
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Follow me on instagram for a peek into my process and to see my latest designs! @missmaevemueller
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The pieces you see here were all handmade out of porcelain clay. I use a high-quality gold luster glaze to add accents to my designs, yielding a 22 karat finish.
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If you have any questions at all, or if you would like to request a special order, please don't hesitate to contact me. Happy browsing! <3
Announcement
Follow me on instagram for a peek into my process and to see my latest designs! @missmaevemueller
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The pieces you see here were all handmade out of porcelain clay. I use a high-quality gold luster glaze to add accents to my designs, yielding a 22 karat finish.
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If you have any questions at all, or if you would like to request a special order, please don't hesitate to contact me. Happy browsing! <3
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Johanna on Dec 17, 2020
5 out of 5 starsI bought my first pair of Lusterbone earrings after falling in love with them at a Somerville boutique in 2017. Since then I have purchased a number of pieces of Maeve's jewelry as gifts and my own small collection. Beautiful design and workmanship! A perfect accessory for any outfit!!
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noor on Oct 18, 2020
5 out of 5 starsJust gorgeous and JUICY and colorful but dainty and versatile. I love these studs so very much! Shipped quickly and very communicative artist!
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Amanda on Apr 15, 2020
5 out of 5 starsI have been looking at Maeve's art for a while and finally decided to treat myself! I am so happy with the necklace -- it can be worn with any outfit and adds some sophistication to my look. It is so beautiful and classy and I couldn't be happier with my newest jewelry addition :)
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Laura on Apr 12, 2020
5 out of 5 starsThese earrings are so beautiful and they shipped so fast! I will definitely be a repeat customer.
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Jacinthe on Oct 2, 2018
5 out of 5 starsThese earrings are beautiful and well crafted. I love the fact that they're made of porcelain - it's a unique and refreshing medium for jewelry. I found your earrings at Cambridge Naturals when I was visiting Boston and loved the style of your work. Shipping and delivery were speedy. Thank you!
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Benjamin on Sep 25, 2018
5 out of 5 starsGave this to my wife as a wedding gift and she loved it! I gave it to her the day before our wedding and she immediately put it on, and she changed her rehearsal dinner look so that she could wear it. People complimented it all night, will definitely be purchasing more jewelry from Maeve.
About Lusterbone
This all began in 2012, when I longed to make wearable works of art but found my feet planted in a ceramics studio.
Up to that point the potter’s wheel had been my go-to place for fleshing out the answers to life's questions. It grounded me, brought me calm and felt like home. But I still had a restless heart, and a nagging urge to stake out new creative territory. So in the process of seeking out a language that could pin-down and give form to the dozens of half-ideas swimming around inside me, I found myself revisiting a long-neglected love of my past…
Jewelry design has fascinated me as long as I can remember. There’s something mysterious and beguiling about this age-old human instinct to adorn. What is it that makes us want to decorate ourselves? What is it about jewelry that makes us feel so important, beautiful, powerful, secure?
I started to think that there must be some kind of hidden wisdom there. There had to be an ancient, enduring truth about human nature - who we really are - encapsulated in this tradition that has woven itself into every human civilization throughout time. The more I mused, the more I knew this was the thing to plunge myself into.
So with wet porcelain still caked under my fingernails and in the souls of my shoes, I embarked on the project that four years later I would finally give a name: Lusterbone.
Luster for an illuminating glimpse, the ephemeral, the brilliance of gold.
Bone for body, for strength, for the essential core of things.
While creating Lusterbone jewelry today, I dream about the hard-to-put-a-finger-on place where all those things meet. I think about geometry, balance and symbology. Triangles strike me as such a powerful shape - they have an undeniable sense of direction, a simple self-assuredness. Though rigid and grounded, they possess something of an otherworldly quality. A symbol of beyond.
Gold is another material that occupies that mysterious space for me. It can be elemental and rough, melted and polished to a blinding shine, or (in my case) dissolved and painted onto the most unlikely of surfaces: clay dug from the earth. I use a high-quality gold luster glaze on my designs that yields an 18-22 karat finish. This process, though admittedly painstaking, is nothing short of magic to me. As close to alchemy as this human may ever get. (Maybe.)
My creative process is private, meditative and precious, but I am still an object maker. I want to open up the intimate relationship I forge between myself and each one of these wearable works of art, and invite others to step into that sacred space. I make pieces that are profoundly meaningful to me, but that will also hopefully speak to the innate place in all of us that is touched by honesty and beauty.
Thank you, new friend, for spending time with me in this little corner of the world.
xo, MM
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Maeve Mueller
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Hello! If you're intrigued by The Lusterbone Collection, you might just love my other porcelain creations. Take a look at www.maevemueller.com
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I gladly accept returns, exchanges, and cancellations
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- Custom or personalized orders
- Items on sale
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