fringe and the braids, feel like
chest plates,” she suggests.
“T h e y hang low er on the body,
and the long rectangular shapes
remind me o f the leather and
beaded chest plates I saw
as a kid.”
Lenon created her line o f
H U E jew elry for the 2009
“ H U E A re Y ou ?” exhibition
mounted by the Am erican D e-
sign Club, a curatorial collective
(w hich she helped found) that
looks for emerging product de-
signers in every corner o f the
U nited States. Lenon uses ster-
ling silver chains and German
silk thread for the colors. “I am
now w orking on a collection o f
crocheted chains and I’m loving
it,” she admits. “ T h e chains turn
into these rope-like forms that
look like salt form ations.”
Annie Lenon
“l’VE BEEN MAKING JEWELRY
ever since I was a little kid,”
says graphic designer Annie
Lenon, w ho grew up in B oze-
man, mt
,
with a fam ily cabin in
the w oods near the Canadian
border and G lacier National
Park. She and her brother loved
playing w ith beads and string-
ing jew elry for their m other,
constructing tiny w ire cages to
hold lichen, moss or anything
she could find in the w oods and
hang as earrings or pendants.
M uch o f her w ork has to do
w ith her M ontana roots: the
shapes and colors o f N ative
Am erican culture, her memo-
ries o f pow w ow s and driving
through reservations. “A fe w o f
the H U E pieces, specifically the
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