About

Still life arrangement of seashells and coral on a stone ledge with a dark background

Violet has always been drawn to beauty sharpened by impermanence — and the instinct to preserve what cannot last.

Livadia emerged from that impulse: to hold fleeting experience in material form, whether through image, structure, or abstraction.

Livadia reimagines the techniques and sensibilities of the past for the present. Antique methods, rarely practised today, are brought into a modern context. The result is jewellery that feels simultaneously of another era and entirely of the moment. Pieces made to be worn now, and kept forever.

Inspired by Violet's ongoing study of art history as a visual language, the work treats images across centuries as a way of understanding atmosphere, emotion, and cultural memory.

Diving and sailing from a young age was another formative influence in Violet's life, as it altered her perception entirely. Light on open water, the mystery beneath the surface, the shifting threshold where sky meets sea — these experiences formed a different register of attention, which continues to shape how form, colour, and movement are translated into jewellery.

At Livadia, atmosphere and material are inseparable. Stones are chosen for the images they complete: light breaking across coral, movement through deep water, bubbles rising toward the surface. There is an attraction to both clarity and inclusion — to stones that are perfectly resolved, and those marked by internal trace. Inclusions are understood as records of formation: pressure, movement, and time made visible within the stone itself, like water broken by wind across its surface.

Objects become most alive through evidence of use. A softened edge, a worn surface, a small imperfection — these are not flaws but signs of presence. What is untouched often feels distant; what is marked feels lived.

Each piece is made by hand using antique techniques, where variation is inevitable and intentional. No two pieces are ever exactly alike. Over time, they are shaped further by the person who wears them.

Livadia are modern relics. Objects built to carry time.