Editor’s Note
**Editor’s Note:** This portrait delves into the creative universe of Anna Jewsbury, the visionary behind Completedworks, whose sculptural jewelry and expanding design practice reflect a lifelong dialogue with contrast and imperfection.
London: Meeting the Jewelry and Furniture Designer Behind the Avant-Garde Label Completedworks
By Laurine Abrieu
June 15, 2026
The founder of the jewelry brand Completedworks, Anna Jewsbury, creates modern, sculptural pieces infused with movement, tension, and imperfection. A grammar of sensibility shaped by a childhood of contrasts, a free trajectory guided by curiosity, and a vision of total creation that she now explores in new realms — objects, tableware, and furniture. For now, and surely not only.
Anna Jewsbury wears an Off-World ring in platinum-plated brass, and P214 earrings in recycled sterling silver, plated in 18-carat yellow vermeil with freshwater pearls, Completedworks. She is dressed in a Pleats Please Issey Miyake top paired with vintage trousers. On the wall, painting “Gestural Involvement With Others” by Sian Costello.
On the shelf and pedestal, a set of vases signed by Completedworks. In the mirror reflection, a console in clay, aluminum, expanded polystyrene, and silver nitrate, Completedworks.
At first glance, nothing seems fixed about Anna Jewsbury. Neither forms, nor ideas, nor even places. In her London interior, every object appears caught in a slight movement, as if suspended between two states. A vase seems to slump, a chair sketches a twist, a piece of jewelry bends like fabric. It is precisely in this in-between that the language of Completedworks, the London accessories brand she founded in 2013, is written.
A jewelry creator turned artistic director of a global universe — handbags, objects, tableware, furniture — Anna Jewsbury embodies a decidedly atypical path. A graduate in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford, she claims a non-linear trajectory, guided by curiosity.
Daughter of an English father, a chemistry professor, and a Filipino mother working in marketing and television, Anna Jewsbury was born at the crossroads of two worlds: rationality and structure on one side, emotion, performance, and warmth on the other.
A confrontation of extremes that she never seeks to resolve but to make dialogue.
She grew up in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, in a modern 1979 house filled with Filipino handmade furniture and objects her mother collected, as well as piles of decoration and fashion magazines from which Anna spent hours cutting out images.
To these anchors are added the breathtaking landscapes of Yorkshire, the harshness of the wind, the shifting surface of water reservoirs.
The resin vases in the foreground, the cream stools, and along the wall, the coffee table in clay, aluminum, expanded polystyrene, and silver nitrate are signed Completedworks. In the background, vases B143 and B159 in recycled glass, Completedworks. On the wall, painting by Emilio de la Morena.
Chair, pedestal, and side table, Completedworks. On the wall, work by Dia Azzawi.
Anna Jewsbury wears a Cecilie Bahnsen skirt, a Prada sweater, and Jil Sander shoes.
Creative, Anna Jewsbury has always been, but not necessarily in the “romantic” sense, she confesses.
As a child, she was already fascinated by beautiful objects, textures, and how elements visually dialogue with each other. Very early on, the gesture became part of her daily life. Watching her mother embroider pillowcases, handkerchiefs, and dish towels, she observed how domestic objects could be transformed with care and attention. By her side, she learned to sew.
A founding feeling that has never left her and still irrigates the very essence of her thinking today.
In a way, studying mathematics and philosophy did not distance her from creativity; it rather refined her perception. So, when she turned to jewelry and design, her acquired knowledge proved fully transferable.