PRESS RELEASE: TEN Exhibition

TEN Exhibition

4 – 8 March 2026

Vitsoe, Türkenstraße 36 80799 München, Germany

TEN marks a decade of collaboration between BA Jewellery Design at Central Saint Martins and Vitsoe, celebrating our shared commitment to design, integrity and longevity. TEN honours a sense of completion and beginning, invites audiences to consider the values they assign to objects and fosters dialogue between jewellery, design and space. The featured works will champion contemporary jewellery as a medium of thought, intimacy, and expression.

The number ten marks milestones, measures value, counts time, and signifies completeness. It is both quantitative and qualitative; from the ten fingers that first shaped adornment, to Dieter Rams’s Ten principles for good design. It is a decade, a rating, a unit, a limit and an ideal.

In this exhibition, TEN is not a boundary but a beginning; artists have responded to the theme with a variety of approaches: ten works, ten materials, ten processes, ten themes. Others interpret it more abstractly: perfection, repetition, duality, binary code, or a personal journey.

Presented within the elegant, modular space of the Vitsoe showroom, the exhibition will feature work from current students, staff and graduates, as well as some special guests who have exhibited with us over the past decade of our collaboration. We will also be showcasing work from a new project with Adi Toch and David Clarke, where selected students have explored the material properties of tin, the traditional material for a 10th wedding anniversary. Here, tin symbolizes strength, durability and flexibility; a dedication to our treasured relationship with Vitsoe and Munich Jewellery Week.

Sally Collins, Course Leader of BA Jewellery Design at Central Saint Martins commented:

“Ten years of exhibiting in collaboration with Vitsoe for Munich Jewellery Week, marks a significant milestone for BA Jewellery Design. Over the past decade, this collaboration has brought together the work of students, staff and alumni, creating a dynamic creative ecosystem that reflects the depth and forward-thinking spirit of our programme. Rooted in shared values – integrity of materials, attention to detail, and design that stands the test of time – the partnership has offered an international platform for experimentation, critical exchange and ambitious presentation. We are deeply grateful to Vitsoe for their generosity, trust and continued collaboration during this time, with heartfelt thanks from the staff, students and graduates of BA Jewellery Design at Central Saint Martins.”

Jennie Moncur, Creative Director at Vitsoe said:

“A chance conversation a decade ago initiated what has become a longstanding annual collaboration between Vitsoe and the BA Jewellery design course at Central Saint Martins. 'Longevity’ is very much part of Vitsoe’s everyday vocabulary so, in this respect, it isn’t surprising that 2026 marks the tenth years of our relationship.

Furniture and jewellery may seem like an odd pairing, but it is Vitsoe’s ethos, such as less, but better; reuse, not recycle; and long-term thinking which have provoked CSM’s annual second year projects. The student engagement when visiting our production building – their Inquisitiveness and consequential making – never fails to surprise. We are excited to see this year’s realization, as well as being reunited with exhibits created during the last ‘TEN’ years.”

Events

04.03.26 - 08.03.26

Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday: 10.00 - 19.00
Friday: 10.00 - 17.00
Sunday: 10.00 - 15.00

Vitsoe
Türkenstraße 36
80799 München
Germany

06.03.2026:
Year 2 Live Event
17.30 - 20.00

About Central Saint Martins, UAL

Across art, design and performance the students and staff of Central Saint Martins create ideas, materials and actions for a better future. Among our alumni shaping the world through creative action are Francesca Amfitheatrof, Bea Bongiasca, Grace Wales Bonner, Matty Bovan, Caroline Broadhead, Veronica Fabian, Isamaya Ffrench, Craig Green, Dinny Hall, Isaac Julien, Christopher Kane, Hannah Martin, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, Sandy Powell, Simone Rocha, and Yinka Shonibare.

Central Saint Martins is part of University of the Arts London (UAL), an international centre for innovative teaching and research in arts, design, fashion, communication and the performing arts. The University is made up of six Colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts.

www.arts.ac.uk/csm

About Vitsoe

Since 1959 Vitsoe has created and evolved furniture that allows its customers to live better, with less, that lasts longer. Vitsoe is renowned for its single-minded commitment to responsible design as well as its continuous production of Dieter Rams’s original furniture, for which it holds an exclusive worldwide licence. Vitsoe only sells directly to its global customers, ensuring a seamless process that nurtures lifelong relationships.