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OFFFHAND is an independent jewellery and objects label from Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria. Founded by Michael Rüscher, master goldsmith and designer. Familiar at first glance, unexpected when you look again.

About OFFFHAND

Michael Rüscher grew up in the Bregenzerwald and learned his craft at a school that has trained goldsmiths since 1768. Casting, forging, soldering, setting stones, the way it was taught two hundred years ago. After twenty years out in the world and in the trade, he came back to do it all differently.

In his workshop at Marktstraße 39a in Dornbirn he makes rings, chains, earrings and bracelets from solid silver, gold and platinum. Nothing hollow, nothing plated, from responsibly sourced precious metal: recycled or from controlled mining. The workshop itself is no romantic wooden room but a lab: aluminium, white, open, wiped down every evening.

Torch flame on a ring in the OFFFHAND workshop

Bespoke

Alongside the collection, Michael makes one-offs by appointment. Often it starts with a stone chosen together, from which the design grows. There are family rings too, signet rings and pinkies. He is especially drawn to stones away from the mainstream: lesser-known gemstones and old cuts. Every piece comes out of an intense exchange, with hand-drawn sketches.

Design

Same question, different scale: how do things feel that you hold every day? This leads to objects. The Silver Cup, an espresso cup in solid silver. CLMP, a table leg that clamps any board. The Wallet. And Jetpack, old Rimowa cases rebuilt as backpacks.

Lookbook

Two Cities: three days in Vienna in March 2026, four days in New York in September 2026. The same pieces, worn as always.

“I'm interested in the traces of making. Jewellery is not a finished product but a thought carried on.” Michael Rüscher

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