His works are mostly known for its steampunk influence, but Russian fine jewelry designer Vladimir Markin’s latest Carrot brooch is a different style: cute and classy at same time. Created in 18K white gold and yellow gold, the brooch is adorned with orange sapphires, tsavorites and diamonds. A classic Markin touch: a push of the carrot’s top will reveal a rabbit peering with its head out. Markin’s designs are known for being ‘different’. For the past four years, the Moscow-based designer has been giving fine jewelry a wicked twist, thanks to his obsession with mechanical art and the steampunk movement. Rings come adorned with gears, necklaces can be taken apart, ebony wood makes up the body of rings, and pieces are crafted to replicate suspension bridges and floor plans of old cathedrals. Even his first Asian outpost on 8 Elgin Street in Hong Kong stands out among the other hipster stores in that area with a mural of a bearded man smoking a pipe taking up the entire exterior space.
