The museum

QUORIELLE is a small museum you can wear. Every lapel pin is a miniature sculpture — a broken column, an escapement wheel, a cracked plaster tablet, a ginkgo leaf — and every piece has a place in one of four halls.

Why sculptures for the lapel

At a wedding the lapel is the one place a man is expected to wear something that means something. For a long time that was a flower. We think it can also be a small work: something with a shape you can look at closely, that belongs to a story, and that you keep after the day.

So we draw our pieces the way a museum describes its objects. Each has an accession number, a hall, a label with its true size, its material and how it fastens.

The four halls

Hall I · Architecture. Columns, arches, stairs and a temple front, in antique brass tone.

Hall II · Mechanism. Escapement and balance wheels, cogs, a pulley, a hinge and a lever, in gunmetal with brass-tone details.

Hall III · Plaster. Fragments from the cast room — a cracked tablet, drapery, acanthus, a knot, egg-and-dart moulding, a ceiling rosette — in chalk-white matte enamel with a thin brass-tone rim.

Hall IV · Nature. A lotus pod, a forked twig, a pebble cairn, a ginkgo leaf, an acorn and a fern, in antique bronze tone.

One motif, several pieces

The lapel pin is the main work in every hall. Cufflinks, tie bars, lapel chains and pocket squares repeat the same motifs, so a whole outfit — or a whole wedding party — can come from one room without everyone wearing the same thing.

Honest materials

Our metal pieces are cast zinc alloy with plated or enamelled finishes. They are fashion accessories, not precious jewellery, and we price them that way: from 24 to 68 USD. We never describe them as silver or gold. Pocket squares are printed polyester twill.

We sell every piece outright; nothing is hired or rented.

Visit the catalogue

All objects are in the catalogue. To put a set together, use the Lapel Studio.