School of Design Silversmithing & Jewellery

Ángel Jorge Iglesias

(he/him)

Designer and maker of objects of intimacy in metal and leather

 

Cover photography by Shannon Tofts

Contact
nomme.sennomme@gmail.com
@sennomme
Projects
Knight Shift
WIP: On the Body
WIP: 20* Objects

Knight Shift

In a time marked by a crisis of intimacy—where connection is disembodied, love is filtered through market logic and desire takes shape in digital battlefields—I turn to personal experience, the knightly tradition and men’s tailoring to reimagine the uniform of a modern romantic. Knight Shift begins from the bottom up, presenting a collection of male underwear as the site of erotic potential, vulnerability and silent messages.

The pieces are shaped by the metaphors of love-as-gamble and love-as-drug and anchored in the acts of offering, undressing and healing. Worked in leather, patinated copper and silver, the undergarments carry the tactile language of tokens, marks left on bodies by bodies.

A clear progression for Knight Shift would be to expand this intimate vocabulary by adding further forms of body adornment to the armoury and refining the ‘dateness card’ as a tactile invitation in a culture increasingly at a loss for touch.

Sopa de letras

April 2025, briefs in silver-plated/oxidised copper, leather, silver and cotton thread. Price on request

Room 318

April 2025, jockstrap in reclaimed fur, silver, oxidised mokume-gane in silver and copper, garnets and cotton thread

Tender

May 2025, codpiece with belt in oxidised/patinated copper, reclaimed fur, vellum, silver, cotton thread and fishing line. Price on request

Suturas

December 2024, briefs in patinated copper, silver and linen thread. Price on request

Season Ticket

February 2025, briefs in vellum, silver, garnets, cotton backing, polyester stuffing, cotton thread and adhesive. Price on request

Programmed Fantasies

March 2025, boxer briefs in patinated/oxidised copper, pearls, leather, silver and cotton thread. Price on request

WIP: On the Body

Building on 20* Objects, this project saw the cards placed on a mannequin and a bed. I challenged myself to transform them from flat shapes into objects with volume, scale and potential as body adornments. This moment marked the turn to an intimate uniform, beginning with male underwear as its first expression.

WIP: 20* Objects

The starting point for my final collection, in this project I explored the card as an invitation to touch. Playing and business cards became platforms for conceptual, material and technical experimentation, testing their potential to tell stories and act as tokens of intimacy. The visual language developed here would echo across the rest of my final-year work.