The Robot and the Unlucky Stone opal ring

EDITOR'S REVIEW

Menacing forms that flirt with the darker side seem to be something of an obsession with our millennial jewellers, perhaps inevitable if your name happens to be Max Danger. This Danish designer, who trained at Central St Martins, is currently a hot favourite and has won both a bursary from the Goldsmiths’ Fair as well as other esteemed design prizes over the past two years. Using modified sewing needles, Max carves his miniature worlds in wax before casting them into precious metals. Danger, who is fascinated by retro robots from the 1950s, plays on the fact that opals are easily breakable when setting them into jewellery by arming this animated automaton with a hammer in this witty one-of-a-kind ring.