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Launching this month in Dalston in East London,

new jewellery brand Jakhu Studio’s range of

handsomely-proportioned silver earrings, rings and

objects is driven by Spanish designer Maria Bernal’s

love of ancient Peruvian metalwork techniques

and Japanese aesthetics. She first travelled to Peru

in 2012, where she discovered the artisans of the

Huancayo region, inspiring the idea of a collaborative

partnership. It’s testament to her design skills that

Bernal has created such a confident, contemporary line

from such a confusion of cultural influences, including

Dalston itself. Though much of her life and work

centres around South America, she was adamant she

wanted an East London base for Jakhu. ‘I love the

personality of Dalston,’ says Bernal. ‘Its multicultural

vibes are inspiring me to achieve what I set out to do.’

jakhustudio.com

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stories

A new jewellery brand’s love affair

with South American metalwork

‘NUNA’ EARRINGS, £195 PER

PAIR; ‘QALA’ BRACELETS,

£205 EACH; ‘QALA’ CUBE

RING, £225; ‘SUMAQ’

TETRAHEDRON RING, £215,

ALL PART OF THE 001

COLLECTION, BY JAKHU

STUDIO. TURTLENECK,

£420, BY BURBERRY

Art and financial services are not

natural roommates, but a new project

by South Korean bank KEB Hana bucks

the trend, bringing culture and finance

under one roof. Designed by local

architecture firm The System Lab and

located in Seoul’s affluent Samsung-dong

district, Place 1 is a bank, just not as

you know it. Defined as a ‘cultural bank’

and a ‘slow banking space’, KEB Hana’s

new home will host the company’s

offices and customer services, as well

as standalone artworks and public

exhibitions. The building itself was also

conceived as a large-scale artwork for

the local community. The external

cladding is made of prefabricated state-

of-the-art UHPC (ultra-high performance

concrete) panels that feature movable

circular disks, each holding an art piece

by different contemporary Korean

artists, including Jin & Park, Oh-Sang

Kwon and Sang-Won Lee.

thesystemlab.com

BANK STATEMENT

From Suzhou silk and Savile Row

tailoring to Triberg cuckoo clocks,

it’s impossible to resist the pull of

geographically-specific traditional

craftsmanship. Unless, of course,

it’s not traditional at all. ‘Speciality

towns’ are becoming big business.

More Las Vegas than Le Locle, these

often purpose-built towns ‘specialise’

in everything from chocolate to sex

toys. With an estimated thousand

such mono-enterprise zones in the

making, China is leading the charge.

If that’s what the people want,

let them have it, we say. And while

they’re immersing themselves in all

these Instagrammable faux

experiences, we’ll take a road trip

to Triberg to buy one of those

traditionally handcrafted clocks.

SINGLE PURPOSE

INCOMING | JOHN WEICH

Hair: Yoshitaka Miyazaki using L’Oréal Professionnel Techni Art. Make-up: Emma Broom using Chanel Rouge Coco Lip Blush and Blue Serum Eye. Manicurist: Saffron Goddard using Kure Bazaar. Model: Britt van der Voort at Elite London

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