David Atkins Designs: history & approach

DESIGN

 David Atkins has made a specialty of Cufflink design, and offers one of the largest available ranges of classic plain Sterling Silver and solid Gold cufflinks:

• Only precious metals are used in our cufflinks. (ie Sterling Silver, Carated Golds, Platinum etc)

• Great care has been taken to design simple geometric shapes with the added visual delight of highly polished curved surfaces.   Such designs are versatile and timeless - and aimed at discriminating consumers. They make a treasured and a long lasting gift.

• These cufflinks are also eminently suited to engraving, and we offer this service with a range of elegant fonts.
  

• We consider cufflinks a discerning accessory which adds ‘presence’ and ‘class’ to the wearer and their clothes – clean, sculptured pieces which complement and enhance.

• All our cufflinks have a fully designed back (sitting on the inner shirt cuff) which complements the shape of the front. This gives a much more sophisticated look, and is rarely done in other cufflinks, which usually have a standard attached swivel back.

• Most of our cufflink designs are cast as a single piece solid ‘stud’. The central shank is curved to allow the cufflink to sit evenly on the cuff. As well as allowing design freedom this also results in a cufflink of great strength and reassuring mass.

• Our cufflinks vary in size, and tend to be slightly larger than most, since many men prefer the presence and more masculine look this gives.

ETHOS:

‘Grace. Utility. Soul’

are the qualities that inform our design philosophy

and appear on our Certificate of Provenance in Latin as:

' Decor . Utilas . Anima '  

 David Atkins

David Atkins turned to silversmithing and jewellery design in 1998 after a long and varied career in product design in Australia and America.

In his previous career as an industrial designer he designed a multitude of familiar products in Australia and the US, for Telstra, Mercedes Benz, Repco, Corning – and many others – garnering many awards in the process.

Having made considerable achievements with mass produced products, David turned to silversmithing and artisan work as a completely different area of design, one - which he felt - ‘speaks to the soul’ 

These days he is more interested in designing and producing objects of lasting beauty in precious metals and unique Australian timbers. The processes used in the design and creation of these objects are more akin to those used by the renaissance masters and artisans – than modern techniques.