the original collection of found-object designs is a travelogue of sorts, curated during mark's time on the road with singer-songwriter rufus wainwright who, along with his sister martha, instilled a passion to evoke emotion through his jewelry; each of these original pieces, composed entirely of antique charms, is a vignette of art and history: at once melancholy and romantic, edgy and sexy, masculine yet sensitive – and like life, no two necklaces are the same, each standing as a unique testament to the lives they previously lived