Next week's Milan Furniture Fair is probably the biggest design event in the world--but Americans are almost completely shut out of it. One exception: Alissia Melka-Teichroew, a young New Yorker and Dutch immigrant. Unlike most young designers, she has struck off on her own: From a kitschy set of rings that went on to monster success, she built a full-on brand, distributing her own work over the web, via her design label, by:AMT. Melka-Teichroew sent Fast Company a preview of the works she'll be showing in Milan at a group exhibition titled Meet My Project.

Here, her Jointed Jewel necklace, which was inspired by the ball joints you'd find in cars or artificial hips. It's actually extremely high tech: Using a 3-D printer, the entire thing was manufactured in one go--rather than assembled from individual parts. (That process, called laser sintering, allows you to create objects like this collapsible lamp that would be otherwise impossible to make.)

Another piece with moving parts, fabricated in one fell swoop. The Collar Diamond bracelet is a witty take on a diamond ring--but this being a bracelet, the "diamond" flops around like a charm, thanks to a ball joint.

A dressed up, limited edition of the previous necklace. The dark grey color comes from hand-dying, which give the final pieces an imperfect, hand-crafted finish that belies their high-tech origins.

Another riff on technology and tradition: a Victorian style necklace, again made in one single run using laser sintering.

Another piece in the same series, this time based on a classic Bulgari design worth millions. Each of the nodes--which in the Bulgari original, are individual jewel setting--moves independently, allowing the piece to drape across the collarbones.

A riff on the pearl necklace, with connected "pearls."

Melka-Teichroew is also expanding into furniture design with her Peasant collection, which takes rough-hewn archetypes like broken picket fences and scrap wood, and elegantly refashions them. Here, Milk Stool with the All Is Vanity, which is is meant to evoke an easel. (That reflection you see of yourself? Something to be tweaked from whole cloth, like a painting.)

The American Beauty Hanging Lamp.

The MIlk Stool and Skirt side table, named after the see-through skirt of dowels, surrounding the base,

The American Beauty Desk Light.