Saxon Burns working by hand at his jeweler’s bench in Phoenix.

SAXON BURNS STUDIO

Architectural sterling silver jewelry, made by hand in Phoenix.

Made-to-order pieces, built for you.

SEE THE COLLECTION

THE STUDIO

Made by Saxon Michael Burns, each piece begins at the bench and is shaped by hand. Desert forms, modernist architecture, movement, and the character of individual stones become rings and objects with a sculptural presence.

FEATURED WORK

Selected pieces from the bench.

Organ Pipe Ring with a clustered verdigris copper form on sterling silver.
Organ Pipe Ring Sterling silver and verdigris copper, clustered by hand.
Niemeyer Ring No. 1, an architectural sterling silver saddle ring.
Niemeyer Ring No. 1 An architectural sterling silver saddle ring and 2023 award winner.
Prickly Pear Ring in sterling silver, copper, verdigris, and lab ruby.
Prickly Pear Ring A Sonoran Desert form translated into wearable sculpture.

Handmade in Phoenix. No fixed patterns. No two pieces exactly alike.

CURRENT COLLECTION

Architectural jewelry made to be worn.

Architectural jewelry and wearable sculpture in sterling silver. Each piece is formed and finished by hand in Phoenix; made to order in your size.

Each ring is made to order by hand in our Phoenix studio — browse the collection below, or contact the studio with questions.

ABOUT SAXON

Architectural jewelry, rooted in the Sonoran Desert and shaped by hand.

Saxon Burns standing beside his jewelry exhibition case in 2024.

Raised in Tucson and now working from a Phoenix studio, Saxon Michael Burns creates architectural, sculptural jewelry in sterling silver. Each piece is handmade, with careful attention to proportion, surface, movement, and the individuality of its stone or setting.

His metalwork has been shown in juried exhibitions across Illinois; he won an award for his Niemeyer Ring No. 1 in 2023.

Beyond the bench, Saxon also works in photography and poetry — companion practices that sharpen the eye he brings to silver.

The Organ Pipe story

The Organ Pipe Ring started as a chandelier. Saxon spotted it on television — a dense cluster of cylindrical forms hanging in midair — and couldn't stop thinking about it. The result is a ring that looks like a miniature cityscape, an arrangement of organ pipes, or an organ-pipe cactus reaching toward the sky.

The Niemeyer series

Named for Brazilian modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer, the series studies the sweep, weight, and negative space of architecture at ring scale. Niemeyer Ring No. 1 received Melissa’s Gift Comrades in Art Award at the 2023 Parkland College Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition.

Niemeyer Rings No. 1 and No. 2 displayed with exhibition labels.
Saxon Burns at his outdoor market booth with the Parkland Art Collective.

EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS

Metals

2024 — Illinois Community College Juried Exhibition, Governors State University Visual Arts Gallery. ‘Niemeyer Ring No. 1’ exhibited. 2023 — Parkland College Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, Giertz Gallery. Melissa’s Gift Comrades in Art Award for ‘Niemeyer Ring No. 1.’ 2022 — Parkland College Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, Giertz Gallery. Metals Award of Artistic Distinction for ‘Sea Waves and Sails.’

Sea Waves and Sails copper piece displayed beside its award label.
Sea Waves and Sails, copper — 2022 Metals Award of Artistic Distinction.

Photography

2021 — Around the Block III: Artists from Our Neighborhood, Giertz Gallery. 2021 — Spotlight: Work by Parkland College Art Students and Alumni, McKinley Foundation, University of Illinois. 2019 — Parkland College Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, Giertz Gallery. Purchase Award for ‘Tucked.’ 2018 — Parkland College Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, Giertz Gallery. Merit Award. 2018 — Illinois at 200, Giertz Gallery. 2018 — People Places Things: A Photography Show, Downtown Urbana.

SHIPPING

Free shipping within the United States on every order. We currently ship to US addresses only. Each piece is handmade in our Phoenix, Arizona studio. Most made-to-order pieces ship in 4–6 weeks.

RETURNS

Made-to-order pieces are final sale — each one is built for you and can’t be resold. Doesn’t fit? We’ll resize your ring once within 30 days of delivery; you just cover the shipping. Ready-to-ship pieces can be returned within 14 days of delivery — unworn, in original condition, return shipping on you. Just email saxonburnsstudio@gmail.com and we’ll take it from there; refunds go back to your original payment method. And if anything arrives damaged or not as described, tell us within 7 days and we’ll make it right — that’s our promise.

Saxon Burns on horseback in the Arizona desert among saguaro cacti.

CONTACT

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Mesa Wedding Band

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Mesa Wedding Band

$175

Built as a wedding band, easy enough for every day.

A wide, hammered sterling silver band — built as a wedding band, easy enough for every day. Made to order in your size in our Phoenix studio.

  • Solid sterling silver, handmade
  • Wide band with a hand-hammered finish
  • Made to your size — enter your ring size at checkout
  • Made to order in Phoenix, Arizona — please allow 4–6 weeks for fabrication and shipping

Materials: Sterling silver

BUY — $175

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Serra Band

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Serra Band

$250

Brutalist, weighty, unapologetic.

A wide, sculptural wrap band with a rough heat-textured surface and a visible seam. Brutalist, weighty, unapologetic — named for Richard Serra, built by hand in our Phoenix studio.

  • Solid sterling silver, handmade
  • Wide wrap band with a heat-textured surface and visible seam
  • Made to your size — enter your ring size at checkout
  • Made to order in Phoenix, Arizona — please allow 4–6 weeks for fabrication and shipping

Materials: Sterling silver

BUY — $250

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Horizon Cuff

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Horizon Cuff

$250

Quiet, clean, easy every day.

A slender sterling silver cuff set with a single faceted periwinkle cubic zirconia. Quiet, clean, easy every day — made to fit your wrist.

  • Solid sterling silver, handmade
  • Set with a faceted periwinkle cubic zirconia
  • Made to fit your wrist — enter your wrist measurement at checkout
  • Made to order in Phoenix, Arizona — please allow 4–6 weeks for fabrication and shipping

Materials: Sterling silver, cubic zirconia

BUY — $250

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your wrist measurement at checkout

Meridian Earrings

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Meridian Earrings

$95

A modernist drop earring.

Three graduated sterling silver circles swinging from handmade ear hooks. Light, easy, and a little bit architectural — a modernist drop earring made to order in our Phoenix studio.

  • Solid sterling silver, handmade
  • Three graduated circles on handmade ear hooks
  • Drop length: 2.5 inches
  • Made to order in Phoenix, Arizona — please allow 4–6 weeks for fabrication and shipping

Materials: Sterling silver

BUY — $95

Free US shipping · Made to order — please allow 4–6 weeks

Lab Ruby Band

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Lab Ruby Band

$175

A clean, narrow sterling silver band with flush-set stones — understated on its own, striking in a stack.

The band is formed from sterling silver wire and the stones are set flush into the surface, sitting level with the metal rather than raised above it. It's a precise setting style that gives the ring a smooth, modern profile and keeps it comfortable against neighboring rings when stacked.

  • Handmade to order in Phoenix, Arizona
  • Sterling silver wire band
  • Three lab ruby stones, flush-set, as shown
  • Also made to order in any size, with one, two, or three stones — your choice of Clear CZ, Lab Ruby, Agate CZ, Black Spinel, or Blue Spinel
  • Note your size and stone preferences in the ring size field at checkout
  • Pairs beautifully with other Saxon Burns Studio rings
  • More one-of-a-kind narrow bands in other stones are available in our Etsy shop
BUY — $175

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Organ Pipe Ring

THE COLLECTION

Organ Pipe Ring

$250

This ring started as a chandelier.

Saxon spotted it on television — a dense cluster of cylindrical forms hanging in midair — and couldn't stop thinking about it. The result is this: a ring that looks like a miniature cityscape, an arrangement of organ pipes, or an organ-pipe cactus reaching toward the sky, depending on the light and who's looking.

The copper cluster is built by hand from individual tubes, soldered together in rows, then soldered to a copper base plate. The ring itself is a hollow-form construction of sterling silver wire and sheet, fabricated at the bench. The pipes are then soldered to the ring — a process requiring precise heat control across two different metals.

The verdigris patina is achieved by heating the metal and applying cupric nitrate and liver of sulfur, building up the teal and turquoise tones with craggy black accents. No two pieces will patina identically. The finish will continue to evolve with wear, deepening and shifting over time the way all honest metal does.

This is not a subtle ring. It's a conversation, a sculpture, and a piece of jewelry all at once.

  • Handmade to order in Phoenix, Arizona
  • Sterling silver and copper
  • Hollow-form silver band
  • Copper tube cluster with verdigris patina achieved using cupric nitrate and liver of sulfur
  • Made to your size — enter your ring size at checkout
  • Made to order — each piece’s verdigris patina is unique
  • Please allow 4–6 weeks for fabrication and shipping
BUY — $250

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Prickly Pear Ring

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Prickly Pear Ring

$250

Modeled after the prickly pear cactus.

The desert's most generous plant, rendered in metal. Sculpted copper pads rise from a sterling silver band, blooming with verdigris patina the color of monsoon-season desert — and a single lab ruby set like a ripe prickly pear fruit.

  • Each ring is handmade to order in your size — a wearable sculpture, not a conventional band
  • Made to your size — enter your ring size at checkout
  • Hand-built sterling silver band with sculpted copper prickly pear pads
  • Verdigris patina, sealed but organic — it will continue to shift gently with wear and time
  • Accented with a lab-created ruby
  • Please allow 4–6 weeks for fabrication and shipping

Materials: Sterling silver, copper, lab ruby

BUY — $250

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Niemeyer Ring No. 1

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Niemeyer Ring No. 1

$225

This ring has been to a gallery. Twice.

Niemeyer Ring No. 1 was selected for the Parkland College Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition at Giertz Gallery in 2023, and the following year for the Illinois Community College Juried Exhibition at Governors State University Visual Arts Gallery.

It is named for Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect whose swooping concrete forms changed what buildings were allowed to be. Saxon drew on the sweeping curves of Niemeyer's Brazilian modernism — twin domes rising from a vast flat platform — and came home and made this.

The two dome elements are formed by dapping: a silversmithing technique in which sheet metal is shaped into a hemisphere using a dapping block and punch. Each dome is then soldered to a silver tube. Holes are drilled through the shank, the tube is set into them, soldered in place, then cut back and filed flush. It's precise, unhurried work — the kind that doesn't show when it's done right, but holds everything together.

The result is a ring that is unmistakably architectural. Chunky, considered, and completely handmade.

This is a made-to-order piece. Your ring will be made fresh at the bench in Phoenix, Arizona, to your size.

  • Handmade to order in Phoenix, Arizona
  • Sterling silver throughout
  • Dome elements formed by dapping, set on silver tube
  • Inspired by the concrete curves of Oscar Niemeyer's Brazilian modernism
  • Exhibited: Parkland College Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, Giertz Gallery, 2023
  • Exhibited: Illinois Community College Juried Exhibition, Governors State University Visual Arts Gallery, 2024
  • Made to your size — enter your ring size at checkout
  • Please allow 4–6 weeks for fabrication and shipping
BUY — $225

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Niemeyer Ring No. 2

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Niemeyer Ring No. 2

$225

Exhibited alongside the award-winning Niemeyer Ring No. 1, No. 2 is the quietest piece in the series — a flared trumpet of sterling and fine silver balanced on a hand-fabricated band.

Saxon built the Niemeyer series around the concrete curves of Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer: sweeping, weightless forms that shouldn't stand up, but do. This one is all about negative space and lift.

Made to order in your size by Saxon Burns Studio, Phoenix, Arizona. Please allow 4–6 weeks.

Sterling silver and fine silver. Handmade.

BUY — $225

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Niemeyer Ring No. 3

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Niemeyer Ring No. 3

$225

The heavyweight of the Niemeyer series. No. 3 sets a broad hand-fabricated silver disc — pierced with a single aperture — over a flared trumpet stem and a squared, architectural band. It uses a serious amount of silver, and it looks like it.

Inspired by Oscar Niemeyer's boldest concrete volumes and made to be worn as sculpture, this is a companion to the award-winning Niemeyer Ring No. 1.

Made to order in your size by Saxon Burns Studio in Phoenix, Arizona. Please allow 4–6 weeks.

Solid sterling silver. Handmade.

BUY — $225

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Summit Ring: sculptural sterling silver ring rising to a single peak, set with a lab-grown ruby.

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Summit Ring

$225

Summit Ring — a sculptural sterling silver ring that rises to a single peak, set with one lab-grown ruby.

Each Summit Ring is made to order by hand in our Phoenix studio. There is no template — every ring is built individually, so yours will have its own subtle variations in the peak's line and finish.

Architectural jewelry, made by hand in Phoenix.

  • Solid sterling silver, handmade
  • One lab-grown ruby
  • Made to order in your size (4–12½)
  • Please allow 4–6 weeks for making
BUY — $225

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Canyon Band: wide textured sterling silver band with a round bezel-set tourmalinated quartz cabochon.

THE COLLECTION

Canyon Band

$195

A wide band with a deeply eroded, canyon-rock texture, hand-fabricated in sterling silver and crowned with a bezel-set tourmalinated quartz cabochon. Raw, geological, and entirely handmade in our Phoenix studio — the Canyon Band is wearable sculpture for everyday wear.

  • Handmade sterling silver band with a heat-textured surface
  • Bezel-set round tourmalinated quartz cabochon with natural patterning
  • Made to order in your size
  • Processing time: 4–6 weeks
  • Made to order — each band’s heat-textured surface is unique, so no two are exactly alike

Materials: Sterling silver, tourmalinated quartz cabochon

BUY — $195

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Offset Onyx Ring

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Offset Onyx Ring

$185

Most rings sit straight on your finger. This one doesn't — and that's the point.

Saxon designed the main stone to sit slightly askew, tilted to the side rather than centered upright. It's a small decision that changes everything about how the ring wears and how it catches the eye. On your hand it reads as confident and a little unexpected, the way good jewelry should.

The ring is built by hand using traditional fabrication techniques — no casting, no molds. Saxon laid out the individual elements on a sheet of sterling silver, cut them out, and soldered the components together piece by piece. The shank is formed from a split double round wire, soldered to the base. The whole piece was then oxidized in liver of sulfur, hand-buffed to bring the silver back up on the high points while leaving the recesses dark, and finished by setting the two black onyx stones — a larger oval as the centerpiece and a smaller teardrop alongside it.

The result is a ring that looks like it came out of the desert — dark, graphic, a little worn-in, completely handmade.

  • Handmade to order in Phoenix, Arizona
  • Sterling silver with two black onyx stones: oval and teardrop
  • Traditional fabrication: cut, formed, and soldered by hand
  • Oxidized finish with hand-buffed highlights
  • Off-center stone setting
  • Made to your size — enter your ring size at checkout
BUY — $185

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Interlocking Ring

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Interlocking Ring

$135

Three bands. One ring. The kind of thing you can't stop moving on your finger.

A rolling ring works because the bands are truly interlocked — not attached, not hinged, but woven through each other so they move independently while staying together. Saxon makes these by forming two sterling silver bands and soldering them around a third, locking all three into a single piece that rolls and shifts as you wear it.

It's a centuries-old design, and the reason it has lasted is simple: it's deeply satisfying to wear. The three bands catch light differently as they move. It stacks beautifully with other rings or wears equally well on its own.

Made to order in your size, entirely in sterling silver.

  • Handmade to order in Phoenix, Arizona
  • Sterling silver throughout
  • Three interlocking bands, fabricated by hand
  • Made to your size — enter your ring size at checkout
  • Please allow 2–4 weeks for fabrication and shipping
  • Pairs well with other Saxon Burns Studio stacking rings
BUY — $135

Free US shipping · Made to order — enter your ring size at checkout

Howlite Statement Necklace

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Howlite Statement Necklace

$195

Howlite is a stone that looks like it's already been somewhere. White with grey veining running through it like a topographic map — it has the quiet drama of marble without the formality.

The large front links and the oversized circular ring that suspends the pendant are all fabricated by hand from sterling silver wire. The pendant itself is held in an alternative prong setting, also made from wire, which cradles the stone while keeping it visible from all angles. The delicate links that run around the back of the neck are commercial sterling silver chain — chosen because the front of this necklace is doing enough work and the back shouldn't compete.

The result is a necklace that's bold at the front and effortless everywhere else.

This is a one-of-a-kind piece. There is only one.

  • Handmade in Phoenix, Arizona
  • Sterling silver throughout
  • Large front links and circular ring: handmade from sterling silver wire
  • Pendant setting: wire prong construction
  • Back chain: commercial sterling silver
  • Stone: howlite, round cabochon
  • One of a kind; this exact piece will not be made again
BUY — $195

Free US shipping · One-of-a-kind piece

Valence Bangle Pair

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Valence Bangle Pair

$95

Two bangles, one polished, one dark.

A matched pair of sterling-silver stacking bangles: one polished bright, one hand-hammered with a dark patina. Made by hand in our Phoenix studio.

  • Sold as a matched pair — one polished bangle, one dark hammered bangle
  • Solid sterling silver, made by hand
  • Medium — 2.5-inch inside diameter
  • Made to order in Phoenix, Arizona — please allow 4–6 weeks for fabrication and shipping

Materials: Sterling silver

BUY — $95

Free US shipping · Made to order — please allow 4–6 weeks