Ogee Trellis

The ogee — the doubled-S curve that forms the pointed arch of a Moorish gateway — pulled out of architecture and turned into a trellis that fills the plane. The same curve runs through Islamic gateways, Gothic windows, Art Nouveau ironwork, and mid-century wallpaper.

What makes the ogee carry across so many traditions is the line itself. It’s slow at the base, tight at the point, and it locks together with its mirror to form a continuous trellis without sharp corners. The whole field reads as one curve rather than a grid of separate pieces.

At architectural scale the trellis works as a screen or a gate. At jewelry scale, a few cells of the trellis become the silhouette of a pendant — the arch shape rendered as cut metal, the openings carrying as much of the form as the solid parts.