About Us
The Winter House is a British fine jewellery brand based in Manchester that creates jewellery collections, alongside conceptual, one of a kind avant-garde jewellery and sculptural works.
Based on the fringes of the city, the idea of margins and what exists outside of the collective gaze are deeply embedded in the brand, taking creative cues from the mundane and what is often overlooked – a cracked pavement, an overgrown alley, the hazy glow of streetlamps reflected in the rain.
Metal against skin becomes a metaphor for ivy against concrete, nature against the city. The boundaries between the jewellery and the body are fundamental to The Winter House, manifest in surreal and non-conformist ways.
The resulting works are alive, with the appearance of desire, lust and hunger, as they grow and move across the body. Working with recycled silver and gold which is melted and repurposed, the material carries the memories of the past, walks with the wearer today, and will live on beyond this lifetime embedded with this essence through time eternal.
Sculptural pieces transcending time draw inspiration from classical figurative sculptors and setting this against the modern urban environment, capturing visceral and timeless themes which run as threads through the human experience.
Conception and decay become the ultimate expression of this duality, expressed through a celebration of the ephemeral and thought-provoking explorations on the theme of mortality with metal.
Liam Winter is a designer who established his jewellery brand, The Winter House in 2021. At the core of the brand is Winter’s desire to produce work that exists as both art and design, resulting in evocative, emotive and often surreal collections. Using techniques from figurative sculpture, as well as traditional jewellery making processes, Winter creates conceptual pieces that elevate the mundane and overlooked, depicting marginal ideas contrasted with themes of the divine using precious stones and metals. Winter is a self-taught jeweller using his experience studying Performance Design and practice at Central St Martins and Film at The University of Westminster to imbue his collections with compelling narratives that speak to the psyche.