A jewellery box is often seen as a simple cardboard box with a lid. It is used for the jewellery’s transport and storage, where it fulfils its role in the shadows. But jewellery boxes can be so much more. The traits they possess change our interaction with them and with the special pieces inside. What if some jewellery boxes can be more protective, whilst others show off the pieces?

Let’s take these jewellery boxes out of their hiding place and give them a bigger role in our personal environment—honouring the beautiful jewellery pieces and giving them a dedicated place. A place where both are elevated and admired, whether on a dresser or on the wall.

Designer Lotte Schoots has playfully explored this universe of possibilities. Here, not only colour and material, but also the mechanisms play an important role in how the jewellery boxes reveal their treasures. These boxes are no longer just serving to protect during transport or storage, but also exist to reveal and delight.

The research for this project took place as part of the design in residence programme at Emma Pforzheim, Germany.