Imagine a child in a sweet shop, captivated by bright colours, shiny and crinkly wrappers, the promise of sugar. Then, fast forward 20 years and replace the sweets with beautiful pieces of jewellery that make you wonder just how many bracelets are too many on your wrist… Except you don’t need to picture the latter; go to Made’s Primrose Hill showroom in north London.

Tucked away off a residential street, you’ll find rows of grown-up “sweets”: a delicate necklace with a polished brass chain and horn pendants sits alongside a statement cuff handmade from silver plated brass.

“And no two pieces are the same,” says Neal Gershinson, owner of Made, which creates exclusive pieces for Jigsaw. “They are made by hand, individually carved, grafted and polished.”

That’s the beauty of Made. On the surface, the designs alone draw you in. But underneath the aesthetic lies the story of Made: a fairtrade brand, with all pieces handmade in Nairobi, Kenya by skilled makers, who form part of an 80-strong workforce.

“The intention was to get these guys to produce something commercially viable, based on the philosophy of trade not aid,” says Gershinson, who invested in the brand six years ago and then bought it. “They were individuals carving for the tourist trade but now there are 80 of them within the workshop, under full time contracts with benefits including housing and travel allowances.”

Materials are recycled and locally sourced wherever possible: old door handles for brass pieces; horn and bone are often by-products of the meat industry; glass details come from recycled gin or beer bottles.