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All Pete Rainey said was, “I got it from Jens Hansen.”

Pete Rainey smiles as he watches jewellery tumbling from the small, drawstring bag Phillipa Pattison is emptying onto the table. Every piece, from...

All Tom Heaphy said was, “I got it from Jens Hansen”

Tom is married to Loz, and the Nelson couple found nationwide fame in 2013 after featuring on the Block NZ. Loz has been a regular visitor to the ...

Eine lang erwartete Reise

Here's a recent travelog article from RND magazine in Germany about New Zealand and The Hobbit. Please click the pictures if you'd like to downloa...

The One Ring profiled as an iconic product in 11th Anniversary Edition of iD Indonesia Design Magazine

Earlier this year we had the pleasure of a visit from renowned Indonesian design blogger Erza Setyadharma.  Erza interviewed us and published an a...

Art Students Share Top Prize

  Two Nelson students, Haiyun Jiang and Erika Isaksen, have shared the year's top award for visual arts and design from Nelson Marlborough Insti...

2014 Jens Hansen Excellence Award winners announced

Two students share the Jens Hansen Excellence Award in Visual Arts and Design for 2014 at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT). The...

Mayor bowled over by proposal

    Nelson mayor Rachel Reese is flaunting her very own One Ring, albeit diamond instead of gold, after her partner Richard Harden proposed to ...

Nelson rings feature of Hobbit Premieres

Today five large-scale One Ring replicas made by a Nelson jeweller are being sent to high profile international premieres of The Hobbit trilo...

Jewellers save the day, cut off tight ring

They say wedding rings are forever and one Nelson man was close to not having a choice. Jewellers at jens Hansen worked for close to an hour to c...

This is Us - Halfdan Hansen Sharing His Thoughts

“I went off to Canterbury University and dld electrical engineering and then I got a lob with an oilfield services company. My last assignment ...

Quality Control at Jens Hansen - The Ringmaker

Nelson Mail chief photographer Martin de Ruyter fell for the oldest trick in the book when he tried on the Gigatown Nelson promotional ring befor...

We'll run rings round Giga rivals

  SARAH DUNN Nelson Mayor Rachel Reese is not above using the power of the One Ring to recruit Japanese social media users to the Gigatown Nelson ...