About us
WE WARMLY WELCOME YOU TO THE RINGSCHMIEDE BERLIN!
We support you in the implementation of your ideas. The focus is on joy and fun. During the entire workshop, we will be at your side with our professional advice and personal experience and help you to realise your wishes and ideas.
The team of the Ringschmiede are Jens, Francesca, Anne & Bettina.
Jens
As the founder of Ringschmiede, it is my concern for my team and me to offer an environment together with our customers in which everyone feels comfortable. This creates a dynamic in which people value each other. This forms the optimal basis between clients and service providers to create new results with joy. I always enjoy finding unconventional solutions together with my clients.
Since 1997 I have been working as a goldsmith in my own workshop in the beautiful, old factory building Studio house Mengereile.
FRANCESCA
Since 2018, I have enjoyed teaching the courses at the Ringschmiede and feel very comfortable in our team. I particularly enjoy working with people, developing ideas and putting them into practice.
As an Italian jewellery designer from Perugia, I have always been open to adventures to learn new goldsmithing techniques since my goldsmithing training. So I completed my BFA in Florence at the Alchimia School of Contemporary Jewellery. This was followed by my MFA at SUNY New Paltz in the USA. Various internships, including silversmithing, then took me to England, where I completed a working residency at the School of Jewellery. During this time I specialised in Mokume Game, a technique I continue to experiment with today.
In addition to my work at Ringschmiede Berlin, I develop my own jewellery collections as a freelance designer.
Anne
After starting my training as a goldsmith at the IKA in Belgium, I completed it in Melbourne and complemented it with a Masters in Interior Design in Australia. With my background in architecture, I have always been interested in all facets of the design process, right through to completion. Therefore, I find it great to share exactly these steps with clients of Ringschmiede Berlin.
I look forward to accompanying you on the adventure of making a piece of jewellery with your own hands.
Bettina
Ich kümmere mich um alle organisatorischen Belange innerhalb der Ringschmiede. Bei Fragen zu unserer Beratung, Kursterminen und allen anderen Angelegenheiten rund um die Ringschmiede Berlin stehe ich Dir gerne zur Verfügung.
Als gelernte Goldschmiedin habe ich nach meinem Vordiplom an der HFG Pforzheim mein Studium an der Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam mit einem BA of Design im Bereich Schmuck und Objekte abgeschlossen. Nach verschiedenen Ausflügen in die bildende Kunst und langjähriger Arbeit an Theaterkulissen betreibe ich seit 2013 neben meiner administrativen Tätigkeit in der Ringschmiede mein eigenes Schmucklabel in Berlin.
