Nick Foulkes x Menē featured in The Blend by The Week.

Menē is honored to share that the Nick Foulkes x Menē collaboration was recently featured in the September 2026 issue of The Blend by The Week. The feature appears in the magazine's First Person section, written by Nick Foulkes himself, as a reflection on the collaboration and the ideas that shaped it.

The piece, titled Golden Opportunity: a self-confessed accessories admirer enjoys an unexpected collaboration with jewellery brand Menē, offers an intimate look at the thinking behind the capsule. Written in Foulkes's own voice, the feature traces the origin of the collaboration from Diana Widmaier-Picasso's initial invitation to the pieces that emerged from the design process with Menē's chief creative officer Sunjoo Moon.

On the Menē philosophy.

Throughout the piece, Foulkes captures the particular character of Menē as a brand. He describes the company as what happens when bullion decides it would rather live on the body than lie comatose in a vault, framing Menē's commitment to 24-carat gold and PT999 platinum against the more common practice of magnifying the cost of modest quantities of precious metal through branded luxury. The pricing model, which breaks down each piece into metal price and the Menē Fee covering design and manufacture, is positioned as the center of gravity for the brand.

Foulkes connects Menē to an older tradition of jewelry as instantly accessible, wearable purchasing power, a feeling he observes has been gradually eroded by the layers of financial instruments that stand between contemporary life and tangible value.

On the pieces.

The feature highlights several pieces from the collaboration in detail, including the two chain bracelet designs that Foulkes describes as drape-worthy and loosely worn, inspired by the catenary curve and the aesthetic sensibility of classic Alain Delon cinema. The Socrates Ring, cast in platinum, continues a personal tradition for Foulkes that began with a cameo ring gifted by a dear friend more than twenty years ago.

The piece de resistance, in Foulkes's own words, is the solid-gold Nick Foulkes x Menē Lighter Holder, with its pistol-grip case and approximately 190 grams of precious metal transforming the most banal of everyday objects into something of beauty and tangible weight in the hand.

Explore the Nick Foulkes x Menē collaboration in 24k gold and pure platinum, shaped for the collector who values the considered object.

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