About the Designer

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Marion Cage McCollam

McCollams’ formal education and professional background as an architect and industrial designer trained her to work within, even celebrate, constraints. What I find most intriguing about creating jewelry is that its only constraint is to be beautiful. 
She has a passion for materials and combining them in unexpected ways and often uses materials such as wood in her designs in the way that precious stones are used in more traditional jewelry.  The forms used in her work are derived from nature and then deftly abstracted 
ewelry is a form of architecture, and the body is its landscape.

McCollams’ formal education and professional background as an architect and industrial designer trained her to work within, even celebrate, constraints. What I find most intriguing about creating jewelry is that its only constraint is to be beautiful. 

She has a passion for materials and combining them in unexpected ways and often uses materials such as wood in her designs in the way that precious stones are used in more traditional jewelry.  The forms used in her work are derived from nature and then deftly abstracted.

Jewelry is a form of architecture, and the body is its landscape.