Journal

The first hand chain we have evidence of came out of the earth at Akrotiri three thousand years ago. We make the same form in our Athens workshop today. The full goldsmith's view on how...

My grandfather barely touched white gold. Forty years at the bench in Athens and you could say he was kinda refused. Called it a northern invention, something for Swiss watchmakers and Scandinavian minimalists who did...

My grandfather could identify a chain without looking at it. He would close his eyes, run it through his fingers, and tell you: cable. Or rope. Or herringbone. The man had been working gold since...

My grandmother wore the same pair of gold hoop earrings for forty three years. Not the same style. The same actual pair. I remember them on her when I was five years old, sitting on...

Two weeks ago a woman came into the workshop holding a necklace she bought online. Thin chain, tiny diamond, looked nice in the photos. She wore it for three months. The gold had started to...

I'll tell you something I've noticed after twenty years at the bench. A woman will try on six necklaces, debate between three pairs of earrings, and spend forty minutes choosing a ring. But a diamond...

My grandfather Thanasis had this thing he used to say. Every single time someone walked into the workshop and ordered a bracelet, he would hold the finished chain flat across his open palm, let it...

I am going to tell you something that might sound strange coming from someone who sells gold necklaces for a living. Most gold necklaces people buy online are not worth the money. Not because gold...

My grandfather Vouclos had this thing he used to say. I must have heard it a thousand times growing up in the workshop, to the point where I was mouthing it along with him before...