The Maize Edition Box

This season, every permanent collection order includes one Maize Edition box, added automatically with our compliments. The Maize Edition box is not sold separately. Images are for artistic reference only.

*Atelier pieces have a presentation of their own: a black fabric and suede pouch, finished with two cotton-linen tassels. Sized to accommodate their larger forms, the pouch takes the place of our complimentary gift box.

 

For the kind of person who keeps the box. And holds everything else together.

 

THE HUSK COLLECTION

begins with what a harvest leaves behind. The shell, the skin, the stone: the part nobody came for. Milled fine, it takes the place of part of the wood in an Italian paper, and the paper keeps it in plain sight. The form of the box never changes, so the paper is the only thing that does. Cacao came first, then Olive, Cherry, Espresso and Tree Bark. Maize is the sixth.

THE MAIZE EDITION BOX

begins with the part of the harvest that held all the rest.

Count the rows on an ear of maize and the number comes out even. Fourteen, sixteen, eighteen. Almost never an odd one. The grain forms in pairs, and the cob keeps every pair in its place. A jewellery house notices a thing like that.

Everything a grain is ever given reaches it through the cob. Then the harvest is shelled. The grain goes on to flour and to someone's table. The cob stays behind.

Dried and milled, it is folded into this paper, the palest of the six. On a sheet this light nothing hides. Every fleck is cob.

Its whole work was to hold. In this box, it holds again.

This edition is for the one who does the same. The one who holds a home, a team, a whole year together, and is rarely the one being held. If that is you, the box is yours to keep. If it is someone you love, you already know whose it is.

The full Husk Collection story lives here: From field → ear → cob → paper → box

 

THE FORM

The form stays quiet so the material can speak. A low drawer, one clean seam, the MYJN wordmark running long across the lid. No hardware, no ornament. The drawer opens half a second slower than it needs to, and that half second is the whole design: time for your mind to catch up with your hands. In daylight the paper is a pale cream, the colour a field goes once the harvest is in.

 

Box and Paper Details

A MYJN® original. Designed exclusively by MYJN studio.

- Paper: an Italian sheet in which the cob of the maize harvest takes the place of part of the wood pulp.

- The cob is what remains once the ears are shelled. It is dried, milled to a fine powder and blended into the pulp, where it replaces up to 15% of the tree cellulose.

- Built by hand into the MYJN drawer box by the same sifu who has made every edition before it.

- The flecks are the cob itself, held in the sheet. Nothing is printed or applied, and no two lids carry the same scatter.

- Paper and board, recyclable at the end of a long life. We would rather you kept it.

Pouches

- Every Permanent Collection piece travels in our signature pouch, cut from a suede-like microfibre. Soft to the touch, firm enough to hold its shape, made to protect.

- Two separate compartments keep pieces from touching and scratching one another. At times, two pieces share one pouch, one in each compartment.

- Each pouch carries a woven MYJN label, double-stitched on both sides.

- To keep the packaging honest, three or four pieces bought together travel in one box, not one box each.

 

Note

- A gifting card travels with every order, its design changing with the season. The card arrives blank. If you would like words on it, leave them in the order remarks.

- During special periods, extra wrapping or a small decorative element may be added.

- The box structure and finishing follow a proprietary process developed in our studio.

- Jewellery shown with the box in photographs is for styling only and is not included.

- The season's box is added automatically. If you would rather not receive one, message us before your parcel is packed.

Seasonal Release