L’Objet and Jessica McCormack Set the Table

A fork with the finish of fine jewellery. A caviar dish shaped like a spiralling shell. Gold rope curling around champagne coolers, napkin rings and vanity mirrors. After years of admiring each other’s work, Jessica McCormack and L’Objet’s Elad Yifrach have come together for a first collaboration that brings McCormack’s jeweller’s eye to L’Objet’s world of porcelain and metalwork, spanning art de la table, vanity pieces and, for the first time, cutlery.

Both houses have been in these waters before. L’Objet’s longest-running dinnerware, Aegean, has drawn on the Mediterranean since 2007, and Jessica McCormack’s Beaches collection of 2023 combed the shoreline for jewellery. This time the tide brings in more: the collection draws on the forms of shells, spirals, and marine ropes. A twisted corde motif runs throughout, lining edges, forming handles, and shaping bases. On the vanity mirror it lies coiled like rope on a quayside before rising to frame the glass. Scallops wash up on the head of a serving spoon and the tips of the ice tongs.

For L’Objet’s debut cutlery collection, each handle begins as a twisted cord, swells into a shell, and tapers to a spiral at the tip, so that a fork picked up at dinner has the finish of something you might otherwise wear. The set arrives in a navy leather case finished with a gold rope. Hand-sculpting and fine metalwork, the disciplines of the jeweller’s bench, have been turned on porcelain, steel, and brass instead of precious metal and stones.

At the centre of it all is caviar, one of the table’s most precious rituals, and the pieces to stage it properly. The prize catch is a caviar dish designed for people who actually use one: polished stainless steel sculpted into the whorls of a spiralled shell, its aperture cradling a glass cone that keeps the caviar chilled over ice. It comes with the requisite mother-of-pearl spoons, nestled in a companion shell, since metal spoons leave their taste on the roe.

The ritual is completed by a series of festive serving pieces: a champagne cooler and an ice bucket, both finished in gold rope, and an oval platter edged the same way. Shell forms appear across bowls and serving pieces, rendered in fine bisque porcelain with hand-painted 24-carat gold. There are footed shell cups that look designed for olives but are perfectly happy holding chips, and napkin rings in gold.

“Jewellery has always been a source of inspiration for me — its intimacy, its precision,” says Elad Yifrach, L’Objet’s founder and creative director. “With Jessica, we wanted to bring that sensibility into the home, to create objects that feel both personal and essential. What I admire about Jessica’s work is its balance — something substantial, yet completely effortless. Her pieces feel as natural with denim as they do with black tie, which is very much how I think about objects. I like to create things that feel important but never imposed.”

“I’ve long admired his ability to bring such beauty and refinement into everyday objects,” says Jessica McCormack, who opened her Sloane Street boutique in 2023. “This collection brings together some of my favourite design motifs and perfectly translates the intimacy and craftsmanship of jewellery into everyday pieces for the home.”

This is tableware built to be used, at the kind of dinner where someone will inevitably put an elbow in the butter. The metal pieces, in stainless steel and brass, are sturdier than their luxury finish suggests.

The collection is at L’Objet, 162A Sloane Street, and online now.