Memories

A collection of jewelry that questions the concept of preciousness.

Instead of using stones conventionally considered precious, the main material of the collection is the Brazilian agate. Although it has great demand in Africa and Germany (big buyers of products with this material), it is a little-valued stone in Brazil – easily found in local craft fairs.

By using this banal material in contrast to silver and gold, the collection investigates and reinterprets the concept of preciousness: childhood memories can be the purest and most precious raw materials.

The jewels are inspired by playgrounds.

To climb the ladder and go down the slide. To swing while staring at the clouds. To play on the seesaw with your best friend or your first love. Life was a playground and may have never ceased to be.

In Teutonia, a bucolic town in the interior of southern Brazil, piles and more piles of agate stones imbued with memories were dormant for years – just waiting for a story to tell.

Only old stone discards were used, manufactured with industrial cutting and polishing processes. The agate is placed as the protagonist and represents the user: Small scenarios of valuable moments. Each person sees a fragment of their own history. A memory, an intimate smile.

The collection is produced in different types of metals like silver, yellow gold and rose gold, and in the most accessible versions with baths of these last two.

The main point of the Memories collection is to enhance a national raw material and reuse discards of the industry by placing them as protagonists in the pieces.

Unlike most of the jewelry produced, it is manufactured on an industrial scale, with a focus on exportation, so all the pieces were designed to potentiate and optimize processes, with the minimum of discards and the maximum reuse of raw material.

To democratize elegance and beautify oneself with the most precious memories – the fusion of past, present, and future.