Introducing The Estate Collection
The Estate Collection encompasses antique jewellery pieces thoughtfully restored to reflect our stories across time and continents — to honour history, to shape the present, and to hold space for what’s yet to unfold.
In every culture throughout time, jewellery has been used to convey sentiments that words cannot. I have dedicated much of my adult life trying to do just that: create heirlooms, endeavouring to convey heritage, love and becoming where words have failed me.
Through the years of procuring and studying antique jewellery, I have realised that across history, countless before me have done the same — I touch worlds in the hand-cut, less-than-perfectly symmetrical Victorian old mine-cut diamonds. I feel love born and mourned and honoured in all of these pieces. Each of these pieces of jewellery has its unique story to tell, but there’s a universality to them — that across cultures and time, they reflect the whole gamut of life’s moments, from the joyous, the sacrificial and the minutiae of everyday life.
I think of my one great-grandmother whom I have never met, the one who started my father’s love of antiques and his desire to understand the world with that simple gesture of a gift. I feel her gentle nudging, “Go do what I could never dream of. Go do what your father wanted but couldn’t do. Go journey through time and cultures and tell their stories. For their stories are also mine and yours and all of ours.”
This November, through a digital gallery experience, we present to you 10 beautifully restored and reimagined estate pieces that have lived for a long time. They have travelled the world and have their own stories to tell.
Love, Yilin
