Born of the tide.Worn against the body.
A single rope of pearls.
SANTA ONDA began with one piece — the Marea necklace. A rope of cultured Akoya pearls, interrupted by a single silver cross and a raw ocean-blue larimar stone. It was made for a friend, and then for her friends, and then we stopped counting. The house was built around it.
Slow, because slow is what the material asks for.
Pearls cannot be hurried. Silver cannot be hurried. Every clasp we make is closed by hand, every seam on every silk slip is pressed flat twice. We release in numbered editions of forty, sixty, or eighty. When an edition closes, it closes.
Between two cities.
Our jewellery is strung and set in Mexico City, in a small studio three flights up in Colonia Roma. Our silk and wool pieces are cut and stitched in Lisbon, in a family-run atelier that has been there since 1962. We travel between them four times a year.
Worn, not displayed.
Nothing we make is meant to sit in a box. A pearl is happier against skin. A silk slip is happier against a body. Atlas cuffs look best with a few soft scratches. Buy a SANTA ONDA piece and wear it until it becomes part of the way you are remembered.
“We are not designers. We are makers of small, careful objects — and we believe in giving those objects away to the right people.”