Skip to contentAUSTYN WEINER
Material Good is proud to introduce Austyn Weiner as our first feature in the Women in Collecting series: an artist, collector, and longtime friend of the house. For this collaboration, Austyn curated a capsule of vintage jewelry within Found & Collected, bringing her singular eye for beauty, history, and the unexpected to a collection that feels as personal as it is refined.
Austyn Weiner is an artist working across mediums, known as much for her painting as for her instinct as a collector. Her taste runs toward the beautiful, the unique, and occasionally in her own words the “strange” objects that carry a story as they carry style. That same sensibility shapes both her studio practice and the way she moves through the world of vintage jewelry.
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WHERE HER LOVE OF COLLECTING BEGAN
WHERE HER LOVE OF COLLECTING BEGAN
Austyn traces her love of collecting back to her grandmother Shirley, a lifelong gatherer of small, distinctive objects such as pins, scarves, buttons, stones, etc. rarely valuable in the traditional sense, but woven together into something that told the story of a life. Watching that everyday act of self-expression left a lasting impression on Austyn as a young artist, instilling the confidence to seek out her own voice, whether on canvas or in the pieces she chooses to wear.
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HOW SHE SELECTED THE PIECES FOR THE COLLECTION
HOW SHE SELECTED THE PIECES FOR THE COLLECTION
Austyn’s eye moves fluidly across eras, from the delicate mysticism of Art Nouveau to the bold geometry of Art Deco to the machine-age glamour of the 1930s through '50s. But it's the 1960s and '70s that speak to her most: decades defined by color, cultural collision, and a kind of magic she says she can spot instantly. A love for the era shared with Material Good. Her selections for the capsule draw on this same instinct, favoring pieces where craftsmanship, era, and storytelling all meet.
AUSTYN WEINER
Pressed to choose a single favorite, Austyn points to an 1980s Boucheron ring set with yellow and orange sapphires — a bold, stacked design unlike anything she's encountered before. She describes wearing it as feeling like royalty, tempered by the sense of stepping into a role larger than herself — which, for Austyn, is exactly what the best jewelry should do.
