BRIVALEE
About
Still pouring
BRIVALEE comes out of a streetwear label. For years we put graphics on hoodies; the rings started when we wanted the same graphics in metal — and when we noticed that metal looks best in the second before it sets.
The moment before it sets
Every ring is drawn as if the pour was stopped halfway: a band that runs into drips, a signet sliding off its own face, a dome that spread like a puddle. The drips are placed below the band and along the outside, so the inside of the ring stays smooth where it sits on your finger.
The shapes are cast, then finished by hand: polished to a mirror, rippled, blackened or darkened, depending on the batch.
Six batches, six glyphs
We release pieces in numbered casting batches. Each batch has its own glyph — Split Eye, Drip Bar, Twin Hook, Broken Halo, Spiral Key and Fork Star — engraved inside every ring of that batch, on the back of its pendants and inside its ear cuffs.
The glyphs are drawings, nothing more. They do not stand for anything and we do not claim they do anything. They are a way to tell which pieces belong together: a ring, a chain and an ear cuff with the same glyph are made to be worn as one stack.
Materials, plainly
316L stainless steel for most pieces — polished, rippled or with a black ion-plated finish. Solid brass, hand-darkened and lacquered, for Batch 05. Deep red cold enamel in the drips of Batches 02 and 06. No gold, no silver, no stones, and no claims we cannot back up. Every product page lists the exact material and measurements.
Back to cotton
Because we started with clothes, every glyph also went back onto a heavyweight hoodie and a knitted beanie — one of each per batch. Same drawing, same batch number, so the jewellery and the clothes line up.
