"Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing..."
- Christina Georgina Rossetti

Mirei Takeuchi is a German-Japanese jewelry artist whose work captures the tension between transience and permanence, fragility and strength. Trained first as a product designer in Tokyo, and later under Otto Künzli at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, she brings precision and restraint to her poetic, sculptural forms.

In GARDEN, Takeuchi’s Dragonfly series evokes the delicate architecture of insect wings—transparent, fleeting, and impossibly light. But here, their essence is translated into laser-cut stainless steel, giving enduring form to the ephemeral. This quiet paradox—of lightness rendered in metal—runs through much of her work.

Her pieces often begin in nature: a moment of flight, a silk thread in motion, the hush of a fading petal. These impressions are distilled into minimal, emotionally resonant forms that feel at once ancient and immediate. Takeuchi’s refined techniques and pared-back palettes invite stillness and introspection. They are not just adornments, but vessels of memory, silence, and breath.

Takeuchi has exhibited widely in Europe, Asia, and North America, with works in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Die Neue Sammlung, and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. She is a recipient of both the Herbert Hofmann and Bavarian State Prize.