When someone hands me a piece of jewellery to recycle, the first thing I do is take it apart. It's quiet work. Just me, the bench, and whatever someone has carried around on their hand or their wrist for years. Sometimes decades. And as the piece comes apart in my hands, the metal tells me exactly what it is. Cast jewellery has a particular quality when you get close to it. Granular, almost. There's a brittleness to the structure that you don't see from the outside but you feel the moment you...

What happens when you bring your old gold jewellery to Porini Design. Sue Dunmore on melting, making and why the gold that already belongs to you deserves a new story.

The necklace length guide that treats women like adults. Sue Dunmore of Porini Design on what actually works on real bodies including the things nobody else will say.