Maalya is made under conditions that most contemporary jewellery no longer tolerates.
Stones are acquired individually, not in parcel. Each is evaluated for quality of colour, clarity, and cut before it is considered for inclusion. The work of composition, the placing of one stone against another, is the work of a trained eye and a considered hand.
Three principles govern every piece that leaves our atelier:
Integrity of Material. Nothing is used that has not been chosen. Every element is present because it is irreplaceable in that position.
Economy of Form. The design does only what is necessary. What remains when the unnecessary has been removed is the piece.
Duration of Ownership. These are not objects of a season. They are made to stay in families, to carry names forward, to mean something long after the occasion of their giving is forgotten.
Maalya asks to be kept.
