PEARL INTERRUPTED Fearlessly Unique

Perfection is boring. The pearl industry culls Tahitian pearls if they are too irregular, too unpredictable, too much work. When something interrupts perfect nacre development — a wandering nucleus, a change in temperature, a shift in the sand — the resulting pearls are rejected at the source and sent to the bargain bin.

I source my Tahitian pearls from a specialized wholesaler on Maui, Hawaii. They come to me in lots as the oyster made them — undrilled, unpolished, unloved. I hand drill each one, grind down the rough spots and hand polish them so they glow — sometimes all the way to the nucleus itself — and set them in sterling.

Look for Tahitian pearls within my designs. Their irregularity isn't a defect I'm working around. It's the whole point.