Hands before machines.

Building a necklace takes a few minutes. Everything else takes time — and everything else is most of it. This is the part of the brand that cannot be copied from a catalogue, because it is not in the result: it is in what comes before.

Finding it first

The material is chosen before the drawing, not after. A stone with a crooked vein, a fabric found at the back of a warehouse, a crystal in a colour that will not come again: these decide what piece will exist, and how many of them there will be.

Brass and silver carry the structure. Hard stone, pyrite and jade give weight and colour. Resin and crystal come in where a stone cannot give the transparency needed. Fabric and leather replace metal wherever a rigid thread would ruin the fall. Every material has a job, and none of them is there as filler.

Some of it comes from suppliers worked with for years, who know what to set aside without being asked. The rest comes from travelling, and that part cannot be planned: a trip to Morocco is where the bags and a few garments came from — small, occasional things next to the jewellery.

It is the reason some pieces exist only once. Not a marketing decision: the material ran out.

Assembly

Then it gets built. The wire is measured, cut and threaded, each ring closed in turn, the hold tested, the work started again if it does not hold. Every necklace, bracelet, ring and pair of earrings passes through the same hands from beginning to end — no piece is assembled by anyone else.

It is the quickest stage of all: a few minutes for a necklace. Not a shortcut — a consequence. Once the material is right and the length is settled, assembly has nothing left to do but avoid spoiling the choice.

Lengths

A necklace does not come in one size. Short, long, choker: the same idea changes character depending on where it falls. That is why many pieces exist in several lengths, and why the length is stated with the piece instead of being left to the eye.

With bracelets the question moves to the clasp: lobster, adjustable, sliding. Different options for the same piece, because a bracelet that fastens badly does not get worn twice.

By hand

Every piece, start to finish

One

At a time, never in series

Nickel free

And cadmium free, as EU rules require

Photograph · the workbench

When a piece is finished

A piece is finished when it can be worn every day without thinking about it. That means the clasps hold, the weight sits where it should, nothing scratches and nothing catches.

What stays outside this page is the part the finished piece never shows. It is also the part that decides what it will be.