If cutting edge contemporary jewellery is your thing you needn't look any further than Lara Bohinc in uber cool Hoxton Square. Having graced the pages of Vogue, Tatler et al, Bohinc's jewellery is stocked in Selfridges, Harrods and Liberty but the designer's original Hoxton boutique is Mecca for all Bohinc fans.
If I'm honest, I've never been a fan of shops to which entry comes via ringing a bell. I think its a hangover from having worked in a ghastly upmarket boutique on Sloane Street whose relative exclusivity - complete with obligatory door-bell ringing should customers deign to want access - made it the most boring job EVER.
That said, ringing a bell should hardly reason enough to avoid Lara Bohinc. Her semi-fine jewellery crafted out of gold plated rhodium, silver and swarovski crystals in at times Art Deco and other times Modernist shapes.
As Bohinc's jewellery doesn't come cheap my advice would be to get yourself on the mailing list. You'll get special invites to the shop's sales where you can pick up a pair of earrings for as little as £25. A relative steal considering Bohinc's pieces look like they might just be the collectibles of the future. read more