About
I grew up in my father's workshop.
He was a jeweler — a Master of the Jewelry Guild in Bulgaria — and some of my earliest memories are of sitting beside him at the bench, watching gold take shape under his hands. He taught me that a piece of jewelry is never only an object. It is a small inheritance, made with the quiet intention that someone, fifty years from now, will still be wearing it.
That idea is the reason ANTOANETTA exists.
I trained as a jewelry designer the Gemological Institute of America and opened my own atelier in Los Angeles in 2005 — a small, female-run family studio where every piece is handcrafted in solid 14k gold, start to finish. No plating. No shortcuts. No outsourcing. The team I work with is the same group of bench jewelers I have trusted for years.
Over the last two decades, our work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Those rooms confirmed something I had always believed — that a well-made ring belongs in the same conversation as sculpture.
What we are known for is movement.
I have spent years developing a particular way of engineering rings that shift, roll, and articulate on the finger — what we call kinetic rings. They are meant to be touched, played with, lived in. A quiet, private luxury you carry with you through an ordinary day.
Today I split my life between Europe and Los Angeles, but the atelier has always stayed where it started. Every piece we make leaves our LA studio. When you order from us, you are not buying from a storefront — you are working with me, and with the jewelers I know best, to make one ring for one person.
If you have a question, a custom idea, or a sizing concern, write to me directly. I read every message.
— Antoaneta
