01 · The collection
Four surfaces. One language.
Choose the ring structure first. Every surface can then receive one of the five TRACE engravings in silver, gold-plated silver or 14K gold.
Collection I · Surface study
TRACEPalimpsest
Every surface tells a story. Form is reduced to its quietest state, so light, touch, and time can speak.
Mediterranean palimpsest—limestone, weathered bronze, and layered walls. Referenced through material and light, never as applied ornament.
02 · Surface study
Nothing added.Everything revealed.
Like a wall that keeps the memory of every layer, a ring is never a blank object. Its surface carries pressure, polish, friction, and the hand of its maker.
Designed alone. Completed by light, touch, and time. Wabi-Sabi remains the philosophy. The Mediterranean palimpsest becomes TRACE's cultural accent.03 · Engrave
Five traces. Three metals.
Five cultural gestures interpreted as engraving: the motif changes the trace while silver, gold-plated silver and 14K gold change how it holds light.
Laurel
Achievement, carried quietly.In the classical Mediterranean world, laurel marked a passage from effort to recognition. TRACE opens the branch at both ends and removes the ceremonial wreath: achievement becomes something intimate, carried without monumentality. Each leaf follows the next, yet no leaf is identical to another.
Palmette
Form opening from one root.The palmette travelled across Aegean architecture, painted vessels and jewellery as a fan of leaves rising from a single point. Here it is reduced to a compact engraved gesture: discipline at the root, expansion above. It speaks of growth that keeps its centre even while opening outward.
Rosette
A small architecture of order.The rosette appears throughout ancient Western ornament as a flower rebuilt through geometry. Its centre and equal petals hold multiplicity inside a single boundary. Engraved on the ring, it becomes a miniature architecture of balance—a reminder that wholeness is made from parts held in relation.
Living spiral
Movement without a final edge.Inspired by the asymmetric vegetal curves of La Tene metalwork, the living spiral refuses rigid symmetry. One line turns inward while another continues beyond it. The motif records change as a living condition: never sealed, never perfectly repeated, always becoming through movement.
Meander
A path that returns without breaking.Named for the winding Maeander River, the Greek meander turns repeatedly without severing its line. On a circular band, it becomes a natural language of continuity: departure, return and renewed direction. Its rhythm is exact, but the story it carries is one of movement rather than stillness.