Felix&Friends delivers custom e-Commerce website for Kiki McDonough jewellery
Felix&Friends creates custom luxury e-commerce experiences and digital platforms for distinguished brands in jewellery, furniture and lifestyle sectors. Our collaboration with Kiki McDonough, one of Britain's most desirable luxury jewellery designers, demonstrates our approach to developing sophisticated online experiences that showcase exceptional craftsmanship whilst providing seamless customer journeys.
Kiki McDonough has established herself as a defining voice in British luxury jewellery through striking coloured gemstones and wearable design that breaks conventions of traditional fine jewellery. Her collections employ a wide range of precious gemstones in bold colour combinations, creating pieces that offer modern sophistication with timeless appeal.
This distinctive approach has attracted discerning clients who value both exceptional craftsmanship and contemporary aesthetic sensibility. The result: a colour-immersive digital platform that leverages Kiki McDonough's signature aesthetic whilst serving ultra-high-net-worth collectors worldwide.
The challenge Felix&Friends addressed: creating an e-commerce platform that communicates the extraordinary quality and design innovation of Kiki McDonough's jewellery through digital experience, whilst providing the functionality and user experience that sophisticated jewellery collectors expect when purchasing pieces often valued at tens of thousands of pounds.
Digital Strategy: Colour as Primary Navigation Experience
Felix&Friends' approach to the website redevelopment centres on leveraging Kiki McDonough's signature design element: colour. Effective luxury jewellery e-commerce requires visual presentation that communicates craftsmanship, materials quality and design sophistication. For Kiki McDonough, colour represents not merely aesthetic choice but fundamental brand positioning. The jewellery's bold gemstone combinations and unexpected colour pairings differentiate the brand within a sector often characterised by conservative design approaches.
The resulting website is purposefully colour-immersive, accentuating the extraordinary range of gemstones Kiki McDonough employs across her collections. Rather than treating colour as decorative element, Felix&Friends positioned it as primary navigation experience. Customers explore collections through colour relationships, discovering how different gemstone combinations create distinct emotional and aesthetic effects. This approach educates whilst engaging, helping collectors understand the sophisticated colour theory underpinning each design.
The website demonstrates pairings of styles and tones, showing how pieces work individually and in combination. This proves particularly valuable for jewellery collectors building coordinated collections or seeking pieces that complement existing items. By presenting multiple styling contexts, Felix&Friends' digital platform replicates the personalised consultation experience typically available only in physical retail environments.
Showcasing Craftsmanship Through Visual Storytelling
The website makes extensive use of striking visuals that capture the bold colours, unusual combinations and intricate settings characterising Kiki McDonough's work. Effective luxury jewellery photography requires technical excellence: capturing gemstone brilliance, revealing metalwork detail, communicating scale and wearability. Felix&Friends' digital platform presents imagery that conveys the design skill, quality and craftsmanship invested in every piece.
Collections receive distinct presentation approaches appropriate to their positioning. The highly sought-after Special Editions Collection, featuring unique or limited-production pieces, receives dedicated showcase treatment that emphasises exclusivity and exceptional design innovation. These pieces attract serious collectors seeking jewellery that transcends conventional luxury categories, offering genuine artistic merit alongside investment value.
User Experience: Intuitive Navigation for Sophisticated Customers
Felix&Friends restructured website navigation to ensure smooth, intuitive customer journeys. Ultra-high-net-worth jewellery collectors expect digital experiences that respect their sophistication whilst providing comprehensive product information. Navigation architecture balances multiple browsing approaches: by collection, by gemstone type, by colour palette, by price range. This flexibility accommodates different customer research patterns, whether someone seeks specific gemstone types or explores broadly across collections.
Perfect Collaboration: UHNW Sector Expertise
The e-commerce functionality maintains the desire and elegance aligned for luxury jewellery retail. Purchasing processes feel effortless, with clear information presentation and secure payment processing integrated seamlessly within the refined Kiki aesthetic.
Felix&Friends' extensive experience delivering high-end digital projects for the ultra-high-net-worth sector proved ideal for collaboration with Kiki McDonough. Understanding the expectations, aesthetic sensibilities and purchasing behaviours of sophisticated jewellery collectors informed every design decision, ensuring the website serves both brand positioning objectives and commercial requirements whilst maintaining the sophistication this discerning audience expects.
Signage placement, scale and material specifications were developed in close collaboration with British Land, Squire & Partners and Martin Kemp Design, ensuring seamless integration with architectural and interior design schemes. This collaborative approach ensures signage elements were sympathetic rather than compromise the carefully orchestrated aesthetic experience residents encounter throughout Clarges Mayfair.
Establishing London's New Residential Pinnacle
British Land has developed a new icon and pinnacle of residential living for London through Clarges Mayfair. The development represents the convergence of distinguished architectural design, exceptional interior specification, and meticulous attention to detail that defines truly outstanding residential property. Felix&Friends' contribution through bespoke pattern design and comprehensive signage creates visual continuity and distinctive identity that reinforces Clarges Mayfair's position as one of London's ultimate residential addresses.
The collaboration demonstrates Felix&Friends' approach to luxury property sector work: creating bespoke visual languages that express development positioning through refined design solutions rather than obvious branding. For developments serving ultra-high-net-worth international residents, this subtlety proves essential. Sophisticated buyers expect environments where design excellence speaks through quality and detail rather than prominent branding or decorative excess.
Felix&Friends remains proud to contribute to this exceptional Mayfair development, creating visual elements that will define residents' daily experience for decades to come.