A visit to a musical instrument museum with her toddler son inspired El Perro del Mar’s Sarah Assbring to recalibrate her pop sensibilities and work on what would become KoKoro. It was a “please-touch” museum where they could play the instruments, and Assbring fell in love with the percussion used in Indonesian gamelan music, and with harps from Asia and Africa. KoKoro looks outward, both musically and lyrically, to the world, and rather than a tender clinch, it’s a wholehearted bear hug of global pop sounds. Assbring will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on her.
Assbring: Mia Larsson is a Swedish jewellerist making special pieces out of for example shells of blue mussels and oysters. Her pieces have an obvious heaviness and fragility to them, but Mia’s respect of nature’s design and the simplicity of her handling of the material makes her pieces one the most beautiful jewellery I know. I usually am not so fond of jewellery. Hers are something different. A league of their own.
Photos after the jump.
—jewellery by Mia Larsson; styling by Nicole Walker; photos by Ari King
—jewellery by Mia Larsson; photo by Marcus Palmqvist; stills from El Perro Del Mar video “Breadandbutter”
