THE HOURGLASS

On a crisp fall morning earlier this month, the jewelry designer Chorthip Lagnese was sitting in her studio in Woodstock, New York, arranging wave-shaped resin bangles across a sturdy table. Woodstock is where, in 2010, the onetime designer for Tiffany & Co. chose to create and run her eponymous line, Chorthip, out of a rustic country house where she lives with her husband and two young boys. “I love being at home,” Lagnese said. “I don’t need to go anywhere. When I am here, designing alone, I can come up with something really unique.”

Since leaving Tiffany, where she created timeless pieces and also worked with the architect Frank Gehry to, as she put it, “take his language and translate it to jewelry,” Lagnese has been growing her business with small, thoughtfully designed collections. Her Rain collection features simple silver pieces that resemble running rain drops, including a ring that has become her all-time bestseller. The Pebble collection consists of delicate, pebble-shaped pendants, in the form of necklaces and earrings. “I’m very inspired by the simplicity of nature,” she said, adding that she does not draw from the more ornate jewelry design of her native Thailand. “When I am able to create something that is unusual but also simple, it’s very satisfying.”

For Whisper, Lagnese is creating a special, chocolate-colored edition of the wave-shaped bracelet. Called the Infinity Bangle, it is the result of over a decade of experimentation that began when Lagnese was still a student at F.I.T. After years of “sketching and playing with sheet metal and shapes in my head,” she said, Lagnese arrived at its current design, an undulating, continuous series of curves that appears seamless but has seven invisible joints. “I love form,” Lagnese said. “Form is, if I may say, my specialty.”

Shop Chorthip Lagnese's edition with Whisper here.