L’Objet and Jessica McCormack Bring the Language of Jewelry to the Table

For Jessica McCormack and Elad Yifrach, jewelry and the home have more in common than one might initially think. Both are deeply personal, meant to be lived with, and become more meaningful with time. That shared philosophy is at the heart of the new collaboration between McCormack’s eponymous jewelry house and Yifrach’s L’Objet, which translates the language of fine jewelry into a collection of objects for the home.

The partnership is a natural meeting of minds. Yifrach had long admired McCormack’s ability to make pieces feel equally at home with jeans or black tie, while McCormack had been collecting L’Objet pieces herself for years. “There is a natural alignment between our two worlds,” McCormack says. “We have a shared appreciation for craftsmanship and quality, and the collaboration grew from that genuine connection.”

Courtesy of Jessica McCormack and L'Objet

Courtesy of Jessica McCormack and L'Objet

The sea provided their shared visual vocabulary. For McCormack, the inspiration is personal. Growing up in New Zealand, she was surrounded by dramatic beaches and has returned to marine motifs throughout her work, most notably in her 2023 Beaches collection. References to that collection, as well as her Hello Sailor designs, appear throughout the new pieces, where shells, spirals, and marine rope take on a new scale and purpose. For Yifrach, the sea was already quietly present in L’Objet’s design language. When the two finally sat down to discuss the collaboration, it offered an immediate point of connection.

The resulting collection spans art de la table and vanity pieces, with a particularly strong focus on the idea of a beautifully set table. Shell forms are rendered in bisque porcelain and accented with hand-painted 24-karat gold, while a twisted cord motif winds through the collection, appearing along edges, handles, and bases. Yifrach compared the structural motif to the continuous presence of a chain in a piece of jewelry. That approach is what gives the collection its distinctly jewelry-like quality. “It means an object earns the same scrutiny as a ring—line, proportion, finish, considered from every angle,” Yifrach says. “Nothing is decorated after the fact.”

Courtesy of Jessica McCormack and L'Objet

Courtesy of Jessica McCormack and L'Objet

McCormack approached the transition from jewelry to home objects with a similar attention to the way things feel as much as how they look. In her jewelry practice, she considers the sensation of a ring on the finger or the movement of a bracelet on the wrist. Designing for the home simply shifted that same thinking to a different scale: the feel of a bowl in the hands or the weight and balance of a fork at the table. “In both cases, it’s about creating objects that are not only beautiful to look at, but are enjoyable and easy to interact with every day,” she says.

McCormack’s favorites, the Gold Shell Bowls and Salad Servers, illustrate the point. The bowls can hold everything from ice cream to fries (or simply sit as sculptural objects in a room) while the salad servers turn a practical utensil into something more decorative, with a tapered, twisted handle and trident-like top.

If the collection is designed for everyday life, that doesn’t mean it is without a sense of occasion. At its center is a series of serving pieces designed around a refined caviar ritual, including champagne and ice buckets, platters, and a sculptural caviar dish. But even here, the designers resist the idea that entertaining should feel overly formal.
Yifrach imagines caviar on ice, champagne kept cold, a whole roast chicken arriving on a gold corde-rimmed platter, and fries piled into shell-shaped vessels. “Something unfussy and generous,” he says. “The collection was built for a refined ritual, but I never wanted refinement to mean restraint.” McCormack envisions something similarly inviting: a table that is layered, joyful, and full of character rather than perfectly precious. “The best tables are the ones that tell a story and show signs of being enjoyed,” she says.

Courtesy of Jessica McCormack and L'Objet

Courtesy of Jessica McCormack and L'Objet

Both designers hope the collection encourages people to look at everyday objects with the same affection they might have for a favorite piece of jewelry. “I want people to treat their home the way they treat their jewelry box,” Yifrach says, “with the same care, the same expectation of beauty in the smallest details.”

For McCormack, the connection is equally emotional. The jewelry we wear and the objects we choose to surround ourselves with can become markers of taste, experience, and memory. The goal, she says, is to create pieces that are “not reserved for special occasions, but become part of everyday life.” In other words, the most luxurious object on the table may be the one you reach for without thinking twice.

Carly Witteman is Town & Country’s Associate Fashion Editor, covering luxury style, jewelry and timepieces, beauty, and arts and culture while styling various photoshoots and projects for print. You can find her on Instagram at @carlymaewitteman, where she’s probably posting about a Broadway show, her new favorite pair of shoes, or her current read.

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