Earrings are where an era shows its hand. A Victorian drop moves differently from an Art Déco button; a chandelier earring from the 1950s carries its gold with a confidence you rarely meet in new production. Every pair in this collection is one-of-a-kind, vintage jewellery scouted across Europe by our founder and then read piece by piece: hallmark, provenance, a gemmologist's eye on the stones.

The collection reads by typology (drops and pendants for movement, buttons for every day, chandeliers for the evenings that deserve them) or by era, from Victorian and Edwardian through the geometry of Art Déco to the sculptural gold of the Retro and Mid-Century years. Along the way you will meet cuts that are simply no longer made, old European cut and rose cut among them.

If the periods tend to blur together, our guide to jewellery eras puts them in order. The earrings themselves are in Milan, at LIL House, where they can be tried on properly.