Lockdown was a time of stillness — and for me, a time to design and create. With the world fractured and full of noise, I wanted to make something that spoke to the opposite: connection, wholeness, love.

The Unity ring was born from that impulse. Each ring is built around the facets of a life — the people, the pets, the passions, the memories, and the quiet things that make you you. Those elements are bound together by what we call the aroha band: a link of love that holds it all as one. Aroha means love in Te Reo Māori & aroha is what holds us together, our whanau, our lives.

The very first Unity ring I made was my own — a piece that holds my family, my dogs, and my friends, united by a small diamond set into the aroha band. It's one of the most personal things I've ever made. Since then, we've created so many more for our customers. Whilst others have found their Unity ring among pieces we've already made. Each one becomes unmistakably someone's own taonga.

That's the beauty of this ring — it's built around a life. Your life, or the life of someone you love.