E2J on Alsolike's 'Secondary Function'

24 Sep 2025

At the end of last week, the group exhibition “Secondary Function” at Alsolike Gallery (London, UK) came to a close. Secondary Function, provided during the London Design Festival 2025, drew attention to the ways in which function can challenge visual centrism, expand sensory and spatial perception, connect the viewer with their environment, and serve as an entry point for cultural inquiry.

Among the participants was jewellery designer Lena Esaulova, a member of The NAJ. She runs the jewellery blog Lenaginarium, and develops several jewellery brands such as E2J, presents functional jewellery inspired by the aesthetics of the Victorian era, where technical functionality is seamlessly combined with elegance of form.

As part of the exhibition, Lena presented a line of bags in which jewelry pendants—specifically functional lock pendants featured on the E2J necklaces—are incorporated as part of the bag hardware, yet can be transformed into conventional jewelry pieces. In this way, transformability and the motif of the direct functionality of human hands, which lie at the core of the brand’s DNA, fulfill a secondary function.

The exhibition drew significant attention from both the press and visitors, with the high level of organization and the wide range of presented objects particularly noteworthy.

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Source: Lenaginarium