Our story & members
Amsterdam Jewelry Collective
THE POOL - Amsterdam Jewelry Collective is an autonomous collective of fifteen professional jewelry makers, ranging from emerging to both mid-career and established artists. While some originally hail from other countries, all members of the collective are based in the Netherlands.
WE RUN A SHOP in the historic heart of Amsterdam that features our members' work. The shop serves as an introduction space for a broad and varied public to view and buy works created by new and renowned talents.
WE AIM TO SHOW and sell a broad range of jewelry that is unique in concept, material, and execution as well as remaining accessible and affordable to a multitude of different audiences.
Meet our members
Caroline Bach
(France, 1995)
Métiers d’art tapisserie at ESA Duperré, 2015
Suzhou Art and Design Institute
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2019
Caroline is an artist inspired by wilderness. She’s translating her dialogue with nature into her pieces. She’s trying to improve human awareness on natural entities surrounding people every single minute of their everyday life.
Paul Derrez
(Netherlands, 1950)
Vakschool Schoonhoven, 1975
Former owner of Galerie Ra
His work is made for men and women, pronounced, gay or theatrical, meant to honour and to celebrate life. His works are clear in design and construction, in general hand-crafted, but also with laser-cutting. His favorite materials are silver and acrylic, often used in combination. Paul Derrez shows here remakes of and variations on his older designs, produced in numbers, available in a range of bright colours. Paul is keen on wearability and affordability.
Alex Gasparis
(Texas, 1995)
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2019
Yearning for order, or surrendering to chaos,
She yields to fluidity,
Immersed in unpredictability,
Preserving the moment of flux and encapsulating it.
Chloe Valorso
(Paris, 1992)
Central Saint Martins & Royal College of Art
- A physical exploration of a metaphysical dimension -
Chloe Valorso is a Spirit Artist Jeweller working with the resurgence of magic, in the witching hours of the 21st century. She is investigating our reality, forging the unreal from fragments of the real. Using jewellery as a shamanic language, her pieces act as amulets that empower the wearer through their compelling symbolic qualities and deep sense of history – an essential component in this innovative interpretation of mythology.
”ShinkaQ"
A design label launched by Japanese Artist Q Hisashi Shibata in the spring of 2016.
Shinka means evolution 進化 and true value 真価.
Today digitally designed products dominate the market. ShinkaQ questions this trend and designs with his bare hands to awaken a new evolution of true value.
Material: porcelain (limoges), clay, silver 925, glazing, gold plating
Ela Bauer
(Poland / Israel / Netherlandss, 1960)
University of Jerusalem
Technical Training in Jewellery, Jerusalem
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 1995
The notion that everything evolves constantly lays in basis of Ela’s working-process. Nothing is clearly defined; events and “things” do not begin or end, they’re rather a momentary result of on-going processes. In her current work she focus on colour as material.
As colour is often the first given you perceive and experience, before interpreting, it is a powerful vehicle of moods and atmospheres. The materials she often works with -mainly different sorts of resins- enable her to create infinite colour-pallets with different
tactile qualities.
Morgane de Klerk
(France / Netherlands, 1987)
Sandberg Insitute 2020,
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2011
Design de Mode, E. Hemingway, Nîmes, 2007
Morgane is a research driven jewellery maker dealing with the social aspect of jewellery.
She embraces diversity through a full range of colours, materials and textures.
For The Pool, she merges handcradting and manufacturing techniques in her limited-edition multiples.
Sophia Zobel
(Amsterdam, 1991)
Vakschool voor goud -en zilversmeden, Schoonhoven, 2014
Arts & Crafts - Jewellery, Willem de Kooning academie, 2022
With her mind focused on the soil beneath our feet, Sophia studies European symbology in stories and reclaims them in her work. As a means to root and to uproot, she combines goldsmith techniques with hand carved 3D printed materials and cutting 17th century Dutch Roemer glass shards, to transform and redefine their meaning and value.
Martina Turini
(Italy, 1990)
Languages & Cultures of Asia & Africa, 2012
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Jewelry, 2017
UVA, Comparative Literature, 2019
Her handcrafted jewelry combines formal simplicity, ascribable to the taste of Nordic countries to an exuberant materiality echoing to the Italian and Mediterranean craftsmanship traditions.
Her inspirations come from the forms of nature, but above all from the skeletons of past architectures.Her work is a constant research
on metals, of which she loves the alchemic nature and the challenge that hides their fluid malleability under a hard and cold bark.
Iris Nieuwenburg
(Netherlands, 1972)
Sandberg Instituut, Free Design, M.F.A, 2002
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2000
Known as a designer in unique pieces, her attention will be here on multiples in small series. While working in the studio, the object finds its final form and shape while working intuitively on the jewel, becoming an earring, ring, brooch, or necklace. The pieces are growing under her hands, always the concept of movement in time in mind. In this case Nieuwenburg chooses silver and 18 carat gilding to emphasize the pure shape in order to seduce the viewer, to touch and wear the jewel. When worn, own memories are added and poured into the container of the jewelry.
Marguerite Bones
(France, 1994)
Graphic, École de Condé, 2015
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2019
Pedestal by Alex Zamora @itsalexzeta
Handmade.
Gender Neutral.
Healing the past.
Violent yet delicate.
Objectifying the fear.
Protecting by sharpening.
Imperturbable self-possession.
Hardly essential but smoothly visible.
Gabriella Mika Goldsmith
(Denmark, 1991)
Central Saint Martins, Jewellery Design, 2018
Sandberg Instituut, Challenging Jewellery, 2020
Gabriella primarily works with bead and weave techniques to achieve fabric-like material.
She touches on themes such as the deception of texture, surrealism and witty humor, occasionally combining them all into either bigger statement pieces to her more wearable subtle sculptural pieces.
Floor Mommersteeg
(Netherlands, 1962)
Vakschool Schoonhoven
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
She chooses a specific material to explore in full scope. For many years she has worked with nylon fiber, there possibility’s and quality’s.
Using heat she builds forms, sometimes natural like pebbles, sometimes mathematical structures like grids. Colouring the transparent material adds to the brilliance of the necklaces, brooches and ear jewellery.
Wearing these delicate looking, but in fact very strong structures, makes them sparkle and catches the eye.
Triin Kukk
(Estonia, 1990)
Estonian Academy of Arts, 2019
Triin’s work celebrates boredom and highlights the invisible. The focus of her artwork lies on observation of the everyday and discovering something new in it. The artist is intrigued by vague shifts and emphasizing the secondary aspects.
Stefanie Verhoef
(Netherlands, 1988)
Vakschool Edelsmeden, Amsterdam
Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten BFA/Ed
While looking for original and innovative contrasts, Stefanie combines concept with craft, creating rough edged yet delicate pieces.
By looking for unusual opposites and balancing them together, all interacting elements can fully show their potential. She plays with unconventional stone setting, use of color, materials and shapes, all together defining her unique aesthetic.