Carey Lowell of “Law & Order” fame and Brooke Garber Neidich of the Sidney Garber brand have created a 17-piece collection celebrating women’s connections.
In addition to a friendship that spans more than a decade, Brooke Garber Neidich, the owner and creative director of the Sidney Garber jewelry brand, and Carey Lowell, the actress and artist best known as Jamie Ross, an assistant district attorney on the NBC television series “Law & Order,” admire each other’s work.
Ms. Neidich has several pieces of pottery made by her friend, and Ms. Lowell owns a collection of Sidney Garber designs. And with a jewelry collaboration introduced earlier this month, they are now involved in a working relationship, too.
The idea for a collaboration was first sparked when Ms. Neidich saw one of Ms. Lowell’s works: a mobile with a cascade of organic shapes in white porcelain that was hanging in Onna House, a gallery in East Hampton, N.Y. “Right away, I thought, ‘This is jewelry,’” Ms. Neidich said.
The stylized shapes that grabbed Ms. Neidich’s attention were goddess figures. And the 17-piece Carey Lowell for Sidney Garber collection — rounded, totemic female forms, mainly in gold, ebony or white ceramic with diamond accents — has details that “are about regeneration and the source of connections,” Ms. Lowell said.
The gold-edged opening in the Gaia pendant, for example, is meant to recall the birth canal, and the gold ornament on the ebony Delphi pendant represents a belly button, a link between mother and child.
Ms. Lowell had definite opinions about the look and feel of the pieces. In one instance, she suggested that the collection include a leather cord with small gold charms at each end that echoed the collaboration’s motifs, the kind of piece that could be worn multiple ways. The low-key design took cues from a custom necklace that Ms. Lowell had commissioned from Sidney Garber years ago: an adjustable length of leather featuring a diamond remounted from a solitaire ring. “I’m really not blingy,” she said. “I love the collection because it’s really casual.”
Working with Ms. Lowell was friction-free, Ms. Neidich said: “Thankfully, our taste is specific and aligned.”
The organic, asymmetrical shapes were unlike anything else at Sidney Garber, best known for offering goes-with-anything necklaces and bracelets that are variations of gold links or its signature Rolling Bracelet. However, “I don’t feel like it was a stretch for me,” Ms. Neidich said. “Everything works well with what we do.”
Prices in the collection range from $1,500 for a ceramic pendant to $29,500 for an 18-karat yellow gold necklace displaying all the collection’s motifs, placed end to end.
The collection, which debuted Nov. 4 at the New York department store Bergdorf Goodman alongside an exhibition of Ms. Lowell’s ceramic work, is available at the Sidney Garber boutiques in New York and online.
The next collaboration for the brand: a capsule collection centered on pearls with the artist Sheree Hovsepian, with other collaborations to follow “every 18 months to two years,” Ms. Neidich said.
But Ms. Lowell’s contribution was poised to be a brand mainstay, she said, adding, “It’s not going anywhere.”
