Two L-shapes walked into a jewelry studio in New Hampshire and came out as one of the best pairs of earrings Fred and Kate Pearce ever made. Each earring stacks a smaller sterling plate on top of a larger one, both with softly rounded corners, so you get a clean outline running around the edge and a step of depth you can see from the side. The surfaces are hand-worked with a gentle hammered texture that catches light unevenly, the way silver should.
The pair is made as a mirror image, so the cutout corners face each other when worn. Each earring measures 1 1/4 by 1 1/4 inches, and together they weigh 7.81 grams. That's big enough to make a statement but light enough to wear all day. They have post backs and are stamped PEARCE Sterling. Fred and Kate Pearce worked as a husband-and-wife team from 1969, and their pieces are collected for exactly this kind of quiet, confident modernism.
