The Story
Petals,
set like stones
Magnolias were the first flowers our founder ever crafted — on porcelain, in a ceramics studio, years before nails. The habit survived the change of canvas: petals built in relief so they hold a real shadow, not a crafted one, and finished with the jeweller’s logic that anything raised deserves a setting.
Here the setting is gold wire, laid wet into each petal’s midline and pressed home with a burnisher — one continuous filament per flower, bent by hand to follow the petal’s curl. The pearls are graded to the nail: smaller stones for smaller tips, so the proportion holds across the hand. It is bridal work in discipline, though most of it is bought, we notice, by women marrying no one.
Some flowers are worn once; this one keeps.
— The ManiKIRA AtelierFounded on the belief that hands deserve couture