November 21, 2025
OBJECTS FOR THE HOME

I’m pleased to share a closer look at Jelena Behrend Objects.
Each piece is handmade with intention — forged slowly, from the heart — and grounded in my belief that objects can hold presence, offer calm, and carry meaning across time.

Like heirlooms that outlive their moment, these works are created to move through generations, carrying whatever is placed in them: protection, hope, memory, love. They are meant to live with you, and later, to speak for you.

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May 16, 2022
THE JEWELER'S HAND
There are times I would step out of my space to tend the shrubs and perennials in my studio garden to reflect and find inspiration. Transitory moments like these have led me to enjoy a parallel between the role of a jeweler and that of a gardener—the ceaselessly moving hands. As a gardener digs and cultivates the soil, nurtures the vegetation, and harvests the seeds and fruits, a jeweler creates models, melts metal, forges, inlays gemstones, assembles, solders, and polishes finished works. Though, unlike the gardener who races with time to produce an optimal yield, I, the jeweler, have the allowance of time to contemplate and realize every single creation one by one.
This modality of producing annually a small, highly individualized, and focused body of designs was already there in my vision at the very moment when I undertook the role of a metalsmith. As I chose to depend on a minimum of machinery and chemicals, I also chose to optimize the use of my hands, retaining and re-developing the conventional or historical methods of jewelry-making within my own practice. It is a kind of muscle memory or perhaps choreography that consists of numerous tools, which, over time, like the hoe and sickle to a gardener, become the very extension of me.
Jewelry, as a personal object, is exclusive. This very idea characterizes my practice and philosophy of producing deliberately and manually so that each motif and design, new or renewed, carry meanings after each pounding, stamping, forging, and welding. Equally important is the intention behind each commission of bespoke jewelry by my clients; whether it celebrates the success of a career, matrimony, the birth of a child, or the death of a beloved one, the work becomes the index of a particular moment of one’s life. It’s humbling and meaningful to be able to encounter and intimately engage with different individuals, to infuse their narratives and personalities while creating a unique work that speaks only to them and them alone. These encounters also become the ultimate source of inspiration and support for my work and craft.
The archive of my work exists largely in the form of finished pieces and models, though there are significant physical editions that I intentionally hide in various boxes, so that, when the time calls for a revisitation, I can rediscover and reconnect with them. The archive, the vault of my previous works, leaves traces of my thoughts for me to return to, develop, and find a continuum into the present time of my repertoire, just like the seeds in the deep woodland that would only germinate and prosper under the right conditions. The world today spins faster than ever, and changes occur unpredictably and at times chaotically, and I find it centering and anchoring to have this archive to return to, savor the past, and remind myself to be in the present and continue to grow as a thoughtful and conscious artisan. If new commissions set the direction of my jewelry practice, then the earlier works set the foundation, both of which continue to feed, rejuvenate, and sustain my practice and vision.

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June 24, 2017
BABY ROMAN SIGNET RING PHOTOGRAPHED BY Michaela Winstone

Jelena Behrend Pinky Ring on model Michele Ouellet Photogapher Michaela Winstone Stylist Michell Tomaszewski

Jelena Behrend Signet Ring Worn as Pinky Ring

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October 1, 2016
NEW PRESS: FRENCH REVUE DE MODES ISSUE #29 FALL/WINTER 2016/2017 WITH OMAHYRA MOTA

PHOTOS: THIERRY LEGOUES | STYLING: MARCELL ROCHA

Jelena Behrend Studio  Zeus Square Sheet Ring, Signet RingWolf Ring

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August 20, 2016
JELENA BEHREND STUDIO LOOK BOOK 2016
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September 1, 2015
NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY RETAIL

WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT JELENA BEHREND STUDIO JEWELRY IS NOW AVAILABLE AT DOVER STREET MARKET NYC

 

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February 3, 2015
JELENA BEHREND’S OBJECTS OF DESIRE | Vol. 1. | PART V | MICHEL AUDER

What do you do for a living?

 

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August 21, 2014
JBS Reliquarium: The First Piece of Jewelry I Ever Made
My "Good Luck " necklace is the first piece I made and is still my favorite.
When I wear it - on the street, grocery store , at the dentist, anywhere - everybody says - Good Luck back to me.
Think positive. Pretty word opens the iron door. 

Good Luck, Jelena

 

 

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August 14, 2014
#THROWBACKTHURSDAYS ON @JELENABEHRENDSTUDIO SOCIAL MEDIA

As you probably already know Jelena's work has been featured in many publications, magazines, newspapers, editorials. Recently we have started using popular #tbt hashtag to introduce our newer social media followers to the amazing world of Jelena Behrend Studio press pages. It takes the whole big crew of people to take an amazing editorial photograph, so it would be way too sad to let these works sit on the shelf and collect the dust. Here are the few we have recently pulled out from the massive archive and shared with our ever growing social media lovers:

 

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June 17, 2014
LIA GANGITANO, FOUNDER OF PARTICIPANT INC. TALKS ABOUT HER WORK, LIFE, NYC & JELENA BEHREND STUDIO TO VOGUE ITALIA

 

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May 15, 2014
JBS Reliquarium: The Hammer

 A new rubric on Jelena Behrend Blog.  Mummified memories and real-life magic objects from Jelena's life and Studio.

Potential and will ready at hand.

This is Jelena's favorite and most trusted tool that served her for twenty years.

An object of bravery and will, of the poetry of decisive gesture that brings dreams and artistic vision against the surface of hard metal, and proves them true.

 

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