STYLE : DESIGN : Facet Statements

From dangly earrings to chandeliers, from cuff bracelets to napkin rings--it was only a matter of time before jewelry designers who make artful baubles for the body moved on to do the same for the home.

“My generation is more generic in their dress and more expressive in their homes,” says Lisa Graves, the 32-year-old jewelry designer for ASIL (Lisa spelled backward) who adorns copper bowls and candlesticks with pieces of colored resin. “Dressing up and going to clubs is no longer important. We’re having families and spending more time at home.”

Usually designers’ new works echo their jewelry with the same media--silver, enamel, stone, coins, even organic materials. Bradley Levin decorates vases and perfume bottles with the same pave of beads that he uses on handbags and belts. Mark Brazier-Jones creates fanciful metal and glass sconces and chairs that have the same personality as his eccentric pendants and pins.

Some jewelry designers, such as Lisa Jenks (bracelets and flatware at ICE Accessories in Brentwood) and Stephen Dweck (leaf necklaces and botanical plates at Neiman Marcus) are already licensing their names to other companies, but most are branching out one candlestick at a time. Jim Reva, who favors found objects in his punk brooches and earrings, adds curlers, pennies and keys to chandeliers at the Gallery of Functional Art in Santa Monica. At New Stone Age in Los Angeles, Bob Natalini uses bugs--real ones--for his scarab earrings, and his new insect shadow boxes conjure up memories of eighth-grade science projects.