03/03/2026
A recent article in by
“Jewelry designer Sarah Ysabel Narici finds beauty and brilliance in the most esoteric places. Case in point: Her latest influence is Soviet-era architect Galina Balashova’s cosmonautics designs ofthe 1960s. “Galina used design as a tool to connect on an emotional level,” Narici explains. “She humanized spacecraft interiorswith soft colors and shapes to create a calming atmosphere inhigh-stress situations. She was way ahead of her time.”
Narici translated Balashova’s philosophy on an intimate scale with her latest collection, aptly named Protection, a theme she says resonates deeply today, when so many are feeling unsettled. Unveiled at New York’s Salon Art + Design last fall, the series centers on a softly rounded capsule form she envisioned as an oral bud. She forged the design in gold with inverted, spiked diamonds and suspended it from a blackened-gold sinuous collar inlaid with jade and emeralds. In the Sky Pod earrings, she explored the cocoon-like silhouette using custom-cut, egg-shaped pale blue topaz drops accented with diamonds.
“My job as a creative is to look at the world around me and distill it through my own lens,” says Narici.“
