Before the brand,there was the bench.

I started working with semi-precious stones and sterling silver more than twenty-five years ago.

Not as a side hustle. Not because jewelry suddenly became a good business idea. This has always been the thing I come back to.

I can spot Karen Hill Tribe silver from across a table, and I have never met an estate sale I could walk past. Give me a tray of old beads, a piece of silver with some weight to it, or a stone with character and I'm going to pick it up.

I spent fifteen years running an independent retail business in Midtown Reno. That taught me a lot about what people actually keep: not the thing that looked most expensive, and not the thing everyone else already had. The piece with a point of view.