About
I learned the trade in Germany, at a school that has been teaching goldsmiths since 1768. Casting, forming, soldering, setting stones. The same way it was taught two hundred years ago. That's the part that hasn't changed. What I do with it has.
Michael Rüscher, master goldsmith and designer
Origin
Grew up in the Bregenzerwald. Early on, I was pulled away, out into the world, into the craft. After twenty years I came back to do it all again, differently. Different approach, same hands. Turns out the place I wanted out of is the right place to build things. Timber, meadows, people who make things. Munich, Zurich, Milan, all close enough.
Workshop
Marktstraße 39a is my studio and my lab. Mornings, the lights go on one by one. Between the monsteras, the pieces in the glass cases start to catch the light. Then the coffee machine. The workshop behind it is cool. Grey aluminium, white, open. Almost no drawers, one magazine for all the tools, everything can be taken apart and rebuilt. Every goldsmith's workshop I know looks the same, dark timber and the romance of it. I wanted out of that picture, so I questioned every piece and rethought the room. Evenings: wipe it down, lights off. Closer to a kitchen than a workshop.
Workshop and store, Marktstraße 39a. Wiped down every evening, then the lights go off.
Bespoke
Some pieces exist only once. A stone you bring, an idea you can't quite describe yet. That's bespoke.
How bespoke works
