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Hand-forged brass · One of one

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48 pieces struck by hand in solid brass, set with cowrie and raw cabochon. No mould, no repeat — each one keeps the mark of the hammer that made it.

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unique pieces

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How it works

Three steps, one object

Nothing is mass-produced, so nothing is bought in a hurry. The house works to the rhythm of the metal.

Choose your piece

Browse them all. Each is photographed on the hand, at scale, so you know exactly what arrives.

We size and finish

Your ring size, the patina you want, the stone you chose. The bench adjusts the piece to you.

It ships in a week

Wrapped in raw cotton, boxed in reclaimed wood, insured door to door — anywhere in the world.

The collection

Six to begin with

A rotating selection from the house. Filter by what you wear.

See all 48

Collectors

What they say when it arrives

I bought the Aida for myself the week I made partner. Three years on, the brass has gone the colour of dark honey and people still stop me in the street to ask about it. It has aged better than I have.
Amara OkonjoArchitect · LagosAida
What surprised me was the weight. You see the photographs and think, that is a beautiful object. Then it arrives and it has heft, and you understand that someone stood at a bench and hit it until it was that shape.
Claire VasseurGallerist · ParisShani
I wore the Elva to my mother’s eightieth. She turned it over in her hand for a long time and said it reminded her of a bracelet her own mother had. That is not a thing I expected to buy.
Nadia BensaïdDocumentary producer · MontréalElva
Ordered on the Tuesday, sized on the Thursday, on my hand the following week. For a one-off object made by hand, that is faster than most things I buy that are made by machine.
Inés ReyesChef · Mexico CityKuva

Journal

On brass, and the people who beat it

All articles
Material
6 min read

Why brass darkens, and why we let it

Every house that works in brass faces the same question on day one: lacquer it, or leave it. We leave it. Here is the argument for a metal that refuses to stay new.

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History
9 min read

The cowrie was money before it was ornament

For four centuries the shell we set into a ring was a unit of account from Bengal to Benin. Wearing one is not a motif. It is a citation.

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The house
5 min read

The economics of making exactly one

A mould pays for itself at the two-hundredth cast. We never reach it. What that does to a price, and what it buys you that a run of two hundred cannot.

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The piece you want may already be spoken for

48 exist. When one goes, it does not come back.

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