These captivating earrings from Austin Titus feature a slender rectangle slice of rose-cut sky-blue kyanite, its soft translucence highlighted by an artful metalsmith’s touch. The gemstone is partially wrapped in a folded oxidized silver setting. A pop of fused 24k gold punctuates the design, offering a warm, luminous accent against the cool silver and serene blue kyanite.  Length is 1.25 inches.

KEUM-BOO (translates to "attached gold") is a Korean metalsmithing technique that has been used for centuries. It is the process of fusing pure 24k gold onto fine silver using heat and burnishing creating a permanent diffusion bond.

The Austin Titus studio is located in the historic neighborhood of Church Hill, in Richmond VA. Her work is influenced by old world textures and details yet always with the desire to keep a contemporary edge. She finds beauty in the imperfect, tactile nature of an object that has been handmade—raw edges, hammer and file marks—these are the signature of the maker and a timeline of the process.