Jewelry Box Design Help Needed

[Thomas Skaggs]

Crafthaus has a lot of jewelry artists so I am hoping to get some feedback about designing jewelry boxes and cabinets. I am a studio furniture designer/maker but I also design and make unique boxes and cabinets for jewelry. Lately I have been looking for different or innovative ways to store/display earrings and necklaces in jewelry cabinets. I would appreciate any ideas or examples anyone might share. Thank you.

[mark hester]

hi,

im mark , jewelry artist/instructor
i love the cases on metalartsguildsf.org
the wall and floor cases re great.
hope this helps
mark

[Alison B. Antelman]

Those cases were hand made by several guild members over 5 years ago (in conjunction with SNAG San Francisco) with perforated and sheet steel, we've added pipe plumbing for legs. yes, they are gorgeous. They are also available to rent at very reasonable rates for MAG members.

[Brigitte Martin]

I am a big fan of having jewelry on pull- out shelves, so a box with lots of these would be appealing to me, provided there is some sort of fastening system involved.

Also, boxes that have unusual shapes would be fun for a change, the usual square or rectangle shape is just too ' blah.'. Funky colors on the outside (orange, red) a plus !

[Regina Rose Malone]

Boxes that allow you to hang necklaces so that the chains do not get tangled is a great idea and drawers that have lots of compartments to keep things organized.

[Norman Pirollo]

I have used brass carousels for chains and necklaces in my cabinets, also brass hooks along the sides of the cabinet for chains and necklaces. The inside sides are typically unused so a great place for some nicely made brass hooks, more like small buttons actually. The hardware is Brusso, very well made.


Norman

[Catherine Witherell]

I think a small cabinet on hi legs with doors that open like let's say french doors but they are also like a refrigerator door and have places inside the doors with hooks for necklaces. Being a jewelry maker, I have so much and I don't even get to the back of my stash because everything is stacked. I do think that plastic hooks would serve better than brass or another base metal and would reduce the amount of tarnishing of sterling or fine silver pieces. Another idea I have is of wooden pages inside the cabinet attached to a place in the back that can be flipped like pages of a book so more jewelry can be fit into the space.
Catherine

[Susan Breen Silvy]

As an art jewelry artist, I have always wanted a way to display a piece or set of jewelry on a wall. That way it can be a framed piece of art to be admired when the owner is not wearing it.

[Deb Karash]

What if the box were wall hung or on legs and opened like a book. Necklaces and earrings hung on the "pages of the book. Maybe a drawer below to hole brooches and bracelets. - Deb Karash

[Pippit Carlington]

I agree with some of the people who have posted the idea of a vertical frame-type display. I think it would be really neat if you could design some kind of wall case (and very light weight; maybe the frame made of titanium with a pane of glass or plexi-glass in it).

Something adaptable that one could hang in the house on the wall easily and then attach to some clips in the back to hang on the crossbars of a tent for shows would be wonderful!

Not those small displays that the commercial supply places sell, but instead something that would be at least 2-3 feet tall by as wide as a full tent wall, and lockable, like a shadowbox, no more than about 2inches deep.

Also, I have had a hard time finding good earring displays that hold enough pairs on one and save space. Maybe the inside could be designed in such a way so that post, hook, and leverback earrings could be displayed easily, and different inserts could be fit into the frame in modules to accommodate different pieces of jewelry for instance; one for earrings, one for rings, one for necklaces, one for pins, and one type for cuff and bangle bracelets, and another for ones with clasps on them.

Pippit

[Pippit Carlington]

Also, I think backlighting the whole thing with a built-in solar contraption would really be cool (and the artist then wouldn't have to pay for electricity in their booth at shows if they exhibited at night after dark).