Logan Circle RingsMarch 2010 14 karat white gold These geometrically abstract wedding rings have a hidden secret. The couple who commissioned them had their courtship in the Logan Circle area of Washington DC and made a home there when they got married. A fan of cartography, the groom suggested using the traffic circle itself as the design. When viewed from the side, the grooves in the ring align with the positions and angles where the roads enter the circle on the map.

The blue silk cord mimics some of Hepworth's classic stringing patterns

The whole assembly is riveted together in the four corners—the ring is completely cold-forged

Nicolaus Copernicus' scientific proof of the Sun's centrality to planetary orbits is why we call our system the Solar System

which itself would be buoyed by larger crashing waves in the center of the ring

I was immediately excited to work with them

and Variation II was done with reticulated silver on the Hebrew letters

similar to a bicycle-chain bracelet

which was cut out of flat sheet

A 14-karat gold sleeve wraps around the inside edge to protect the wood from the wearer's skin and to strengthen the ring

We placed a tiny diamond below the central sapphire between each pair of antlers to represent the shed spreader in a traditional antler mounting

After conferring with the client

as nine diamond paddlers steer their canoe straight into the sunrise