Lila Rice is a designer and self-taught metalsmith based in Kingston, New York. She makes handcrafted sterling silver jewelry inspired by the natural environment as well as the human realm of engineering, hardware, and mechanism. Her aesthetic embodies opposing elements: the masculine and the feminine, the organic and the industrial, the antiquated relic and the modern classic. Geometry and symbols figure heavily in her work, a fact she attributes to the singular human experience of inexplicable attraction, for both the maker and the wearer. Each piece is made to contain and hold safe the power and meaning that the wearer assigns to it.
