Our Location
Trinidad & Tobago
#48 Don Miguel Rd, San Juan
About Us
The Designer
Jewellery designer, music and travel lover. Art and design have been present in Jacqui’s life since childhood. Nurtured by the raw complex beauty of the Caribbean landscapes and its beautiful inhabitants, it serves as the inspiration for her work.
Her love for art and design, as one of the modern Caribbean designers is illustrated by embracing the contrasting styles of minimalism and brutalism, she has managed to create jewellery that bridges the divide of art and design and placing them in a completely new context became one of the hallmarks of the Koko Karibi Design as a vibrant visual representation of the Caribbean landscape. She does not follow trends she creates timeless pieces A graduate of the Metal Institute of Technology she holds both a Diploma in Metallurgy and Teaching.
Jacqueline Snaggs-Charles
CEO, Creative Director
From Idea to Product - How Our Jewllery is made
Embracing the concept of cultural ambiguity each design begins with an idea that comes from careful observation of everyday life: the beauty of nature, the stories of peoples, their histories and spaces or the pricelessness of rare crafts performed in the workshops of the world.
Under the influence of these inspirations, the first sketches are drawn which then takes the form of prototypes. Each collection is created in a slightly different way. Everything that happens at the next stage is the result of a conscious understanding of carefully selected technologies, techniques and materials, guided by the reliable intuition and knowledge of a skilled artisan.
Each creation harnesses different techniques that adds the textures and finishings to the metal. Some designs benefits from the aesthetics obtained as a result of forging, forming or melting the metals with ancient casting techniques, while others require cutting from sheet metals of brass or silver to create satin finishes or highly polished surfaces.
Each design becomes imperfectly perfect thanks to these different processes. We love exploring and marrying age old technologies and materials to create contemporary designs.
