Empires fall, languages are forgotten, cities return to dust. Some symbols stay. Three of them sit at the heart of what we make.
The Crane. Cranes pair for life and dance before they do. People have watched this for thousands of years and seen devotion in it. The ancient Greeks linked it to Demeter, goddess of the harvest. On the Central Asian steppe, it was read as a wise spirit of the open sky. In our Göbeklitepe pieces it is shaped coil by coil in silver filigree, a symbol of love that is chosen and kept.
The Eye. Long before it became the blue bead hung over doorways, the watching eye was painted on the prows of Mediterranean ships, so a vessel could see its way and turn harm aside. Its meaning has barely moved in all that time: protection, a gaze that never closes. We set it in gold, in silver, even across the back of the hand.
The Lion. In Babylon, rows of glazed lions lined the Processional Way to the Ishtar Gate. Across Mesopotamia, lions stood at the entrances to temples and palaces, guarding the line between the everyday world and the sacred one. Our Assyrian Lion pieces bring that guardian closer, braided by hand and set with lapis, azurite and black pearl.
A symbol only works when it means something to the person who wears it. Choose the one that speaks to you.