Our Mission
It's our mission to make meaningful and sustainable jewelry that fosters connection through personal storytelling.
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We create sustainable jewelry that holds personal significance for those who wear it. People connect with symbols and their meanings, and the individual way they resonate with their personality, ambitions, struggles or source of joy. Our intention with our talismans is to offer inspiration, connection, or simply a bit of comfort.
“It’s so touching, and we feel so immediately connected with them…to know that it’s out there giving someone joy, helping someone…that’s just the best feeling in the world.”
Ovid's Metamorphoses
The stones Deucalion had thrown were formed as men,
Those from Pyrrha’s hand reshaped as women.
Hence we are hard, we children of the earth,
And in our lives of toil we prove our birth.
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Inspired by the idea of metamorphosis, we took the name Pyrrha from the Greek myth of Pyrrha & Deucalion. To us, the name is symbolic of both a physical change — the transforming of metals into jewelry — and an emotional transformation for the wearer.
Beautifully Flawed
Inspired by a collection of Victorian wax seals we found while digging through a box of old letters at an estate sale, our talismans were born from a desire to give the fragile antique seals new life and permanence. While we design and create all of the imagery for our pieces, we are rooted in that original connection to the past. We celebrate the natural imperfections of our talismans by incorporating original elements like cracked borders from the antique wax seals and proudly show the maker’s hand.
The New Heirloom
Since our humble beginnings in 1995, we have been committed to handcrafting sustainable jewelry with meaning as a reaction to the proliferation of factory made, mass produced fashion jewelry that is so common in our industry. Everything seems to be cranked out at a staggering pace and then left for dead. Because we live in such a throwaway society, we feel it’s necessary to create things that will be kept.