THE ARTIGAS SISTERS
For Tere and Gabriela, everything begins with family — and with the city that shaped them.
Growing up in Mexico City, they learned to see. The geometry of a doorway. The weight of a table. The way light moves differently through old stone than through glass. Architecture was the first language they knew — their grandfather Francisco Artigas was one of Mexico's most celebrated modernist architects, and that lineage left its mark. His buildings were made to stand the test of time. So is this jewelry.
Their grandmother understood something else entirely. An elegant dresser by nature, she would anchor her classic style with a single unexpected detail: a deep green emerald beetle ring. That image never left. It became a philosophy — the idea that beauty lives in contrast. That a cuff can be rounded and heavy and then taper, unexpectedly, into a sharp tusk. That the familiar and the surprising belong together.
Gabriela finds her inspiration close to home. In Niña, her miniature chihuahua. In the objects on her desk. In the ordinary moments that, looked at long enough, become extraordinary. She designs the way she lives — with curiosity, with restraint, and with a deep attention to form.
Tere came on board in 2008. Before jewelry, she worked in grief and bereavement counseling — which taught her something most salespeople never learn: how to truly listen. How to sit with someone until they find what they actually love, not what they think they should want. That patience, that warmth, is woven into every conversation we have with the people who wear our work.
Together, they have built something that is not really a brand in the traditional sense. It is a practice. A continuing conversation between form and feeling — between what nature constructs over millennia and what hands can make in an afternoon. They find inspiration in the same places they always have: in the geometry of a seed pod, the weight of river stone, the way a branch decides to bend. Creativity, they have come to understand, is not invented. It is noticed. Nature was always the first designer. They are simply paying attention.
Los Angeles. Since 2008.