About The Designer

Louise Salaun is a designer and metalsmith based in Margate, England.

After more than a decade in fashion, her creative practice began as an act of rebuilding - personal, then political. The shift came from questioning the pace, performance and burnout culture that defined her earlier career.

After becoming a mother, she began to slow down and listen inward. Creating jewellery became a way to reconnect with creativity in a new form - designing from instinct rather than expectation and exploring how this practice could become more than a brand, but also a form of communication.

This work is for women choosing differently - those rebuilding, redefining or returning to themselves.

Each piece is a sensory anchor for that journey.

Artisanal Craftmanship

Shaped by hand. Guided by instinct.

Every piece begins with a feeling, not trend. I design slowly - sketching, refining, sampling and reshaping by hand until a form feels both quiet and essential. The process is rhythmic and deliberate - an act of attention. My personal ritual practice.

All samples are hand crafted in my Margate studio using traditional metalworking techniques, then moulded and cast in the UK with recycled sterling silver.

Each stone is individually chosen for tone, texture and natural variation before being set and finished in house by hand.

Working by the sea shapes the pace: the tides as a reminder, nature as an anchor.

Ritual Practice

Jewellery worn as a daily ceremony.

Each piece is conceived as more than jewellery - a ritual object that invites you to pause and to reconnect.

The ritual practice is integral to the experience. Every piece from Collection I is paired with a guided ritual - a somatic experience designed to help you shift from noise into clarity, from thought into feeling.

The experience begins with unboxing. Pieces arrive in mycelium packaging - a fully compostable material grown from mushroom fibres. Designed to be part of the ritual you've gifted yourself, it can be planted, buried, or kept as a dish.

A small ceremony of return.

What holds the piece matters as much as the piece itself.

This is a quiet resistance to disposability - a reminder that meaning is made in how we treat what we choose to keep and treasure.

Philosophy

Why this work exists.

You can feel it - a quiet shift beneath the surface.

Something asking for slower decisions, deeper resonance and an inner reconnection.

I create jewellery and objects as a way to honour that shift. Each piece is designed as an anchor - something to return to, to hold, to remind you of what matters. It isn’t just adornment; it’s a dialogue between form and feeling.

My work exists where object meets ritual - grounded in craft, shaped by emotion and guided by clarity.

It’s jewellery as memory, as marker, as reclamation.

Discover

Collection I

Sculptural pieces echoing ancient artefacts and the quiet power of modern ritual.

Designed and finished by hand in Margate.