Werkstatt:München Similar Brands

For Tobias Wistisen designing jewelry is a balancing act pushed to its most extreme limit. Born in Denmark and trained at ESMOD in Paris, he gained his first industry experience working in the design studio of John Galliano.

Goti is an Italian brand, handcrafting .925 silver jewelry in Tuscany by artist Riccardo Goti, exploring darker aesthetic and gothic themes. Often further materials like leather and brass are used as part of the cutting-edge creative process. Goti’s work has a raw masculine edge entwined with a sexy feminine quality to form beautifully disheveled and intricate details.

Parts of Four is designed by Evan Sugerman, U.S. born artist from Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2011, Parts of Four produces jewelry, objects, furniture, and installations. With a background in sculptural processes, Parts of Four can be imagined as an invocation system of rituals and memories: human, animal, geological, stellar, and beyond. It is a meditation on form, material, and processes. The material is the substance. Parts of Four believes in magic and the ability of the material to hold history and power. The material draws the form. Or rather it is a dialogue, a spiritual dialogue born between multiple histories. It is not a reflection on the world affairs but an investigation of inner-space, building and expanding upon it and ourselves, in layers and in juts, slowly and suddenly. Creating magical objects is the goal: hard-edged solid industrialized shamanic-tools. Parts of Four pieces of jewelry are ungendered and non-seasonal.

Chin Teo is a Malaysia-born, Berlin-based artisan jeweler that has handcrafted, contemporary pieces for men since the founding of the eponymous brand in 2009. Chin Teo jewelry captures monumental forms with natural textural finishes through tools and methods of traditional silver/goldsmith crafting and applies traditional silversmith techniques to his craft, lending his pieces a slightly medieval aesthetic that evokes a bold, raw, and emotive approach to jewelry for men. A series of impossibly twisted sterling silver lines form an expressive take on the band ring, while textured oxidized sterling silver bands appear as though carved from natural stone.

Unable to find his ideal jewelry, Japanese designer Takayoshi Yamanami started crafting his own pieces while working as a buyer and launched Detaj in 1995. The creative process always starts by developing a feeling for the material, by endless trials, making the most of the metal properties. Away from decorative concerns, the goal is to find some beauty in the functionality and structure of objects. All Detaj jewelry is handmade in Japan using precision hand tools and original methods. The designs are regardless of gender as creations address the individual.

We discovered OSS Jewelry online and absolutely love their pieces. The jewelry is rugged and raw, as much as can be. The brand’s philosophy about errors and malformations is to transform imperfections into beautiful textures. OSS is based in Paris, France, where each piece is exclusively hand made by its co-founders Josefina & Pablo.

Møsais Paris is a jewelry brand crafting exceptional silver jewelry pieces with insanely rich details by combining digital and traditional artisanal craftsmanship methods. The second letter ø within the brand name is the siamese anagram, with an I resting itself within an O; a nesting that symbolizes a perfect harmony.

Enri Mars is a raw and rugged Italian jewelry brand, made and worn by those who think and act independently and differently from others, free-spirited who dance to their own beat inspired by this world, different cultures, and experiences without price.

CROSS ELEMENTS is an avant-garde jewelry brand with atelier based in Lisbon, Portugal.

Martin Papcún started sculpting thick blocks of water buffalo horn into eyeglasses in 2009 and worked for 8 years for WERKSTATT:MÜNCHEN as a goldsmith during his studies during his studies at the prestigious Akademie Der Bildenden Künste in Munich. His life so far has led to a deep interest in Japan, and the practice of zazen. Over five years ago, he left everything and went to become a monk in the Zen monastery of Antaiji. He meditated in the middle of the mountains, from dawn to dusk, in pain, fever, hopelessness and faith. He merged with nature, became nature. It was not external nor internal, everything became one, the “I” disappeared. It was a radical turning point in his life. In the perception of the world, life and the work of art was cut to the core, form became content, and content became form. After this satori, there was no need to live in a monastery, so he returned to Europe carrying back the Japanese aesthetics and a strong meaning from the monastery wall, “Your temple is where you are right now!” which Papcun’s life continues to be guided by this principle.

M-1989 (Mannucci 1978) blends the family name Mannucci with the defining year when artisan Mario Mannucci began his journey in the artisanal jewelry sector. Today, this legacy continues through his son Marco, who carries forward the family tradition in Perugia, Umbria, Italy, channeling his inherited passion and experience into the creative side of design.