House Relics: I marks the first release of jewellery from the AW26 collection, Trapped Inside A Softly Decaying House. Exploring themes of memory, domestic spaces, heritage, and the objects that remain after a life lived within the walls of a home, the collection reflects on the house as both a place of belonging and confinement.

The jewellery pieces are created as fragments of belongings left behind, small relics unearthed from a space filled with history, stillness, absence, and traces of those who once inhabited these spaces. Drawing from the architectural details and domestic objects found within my grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s homes in rural Bulgaria, each piece references preservation, decay, and remembrance.

House Relics: I introduces the first chapter of an evolving archive, with further relics to be revealed in future releases.