For Those About To Rock

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Kerrang!

Some of the Edge Only collection.

Irish-made jewellery for the gnarly leather-clad headbanger within us all.

Canada-born DJ and designer Jenny Huston writes:

The impetus to start Edge Only came about in February of this year when I was designing a ring that I wanted my Mother [Jane Huston – a designer goldsmith and gemmologist] to make for me. I was describing it and sketching it badly (I don’t have her gift for drawing) and then started talking excitedly about all of the other things I thought would be cool to make down the line. Mum gave me an amused look and said “Jenny you seem to know what you want so why don’t you design a collection? Seriously – it’s not like you don’t know any goldsmiths!”

She had a good point. Mum moved back to Ireland in 1993 to set up and run the Crafts Council of Ireland’s Jewellery Skills Course, so she had been training goldsmiths in Ireland for over 17 years before finishing up to focus on her own work. I had a pool of skilled talent that I could work with here.

Before long I had enough designs to start with and the idea became real. I signed up for the Start Your Own Business course with the Dublin City Local Enterprise Office and the Enterprise Start2 course though the Dublin Business Innovation Centre . I took various other one-day and half day courses throughout March and April and crammed in as much knowledge as possible while designing and working on prototype designs with Mum.

I worked with AAD design studio on the visual identity over the summer as the master models were finalized and then the website went live on September 15. Rock & Roll and Geometric were my first collections (there had to be a nod to music in there somewhere!). I waited to formally launch the company 6 weeks later on October 29 with a further two collections Everyday Icons and Bugs (as well as further additions to the Rock & Roll and Geometric collections (All available at link below)…

Edge Only

 Edge Only (Facebook)

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No fee just some friendly hair-tousling.

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9 thoughts on “For Those About To Rock

  1. Boba Fettucine

    I know U2 are rich, but having a jewellery line that can only be purchased by their guitarist seems a little limiting.

  2. KirkenBrenner

    Ye showed great restraint in not opting to say “up to 11” at any point.

    The same amount of restraint you usually show when it comes to promoting Irish rock music, in fact.

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