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Our Greek Jewelry Designers
Worn Hands ~ Honest Hearts ~ Guardians of Tradition
Every designer we work with is a small, family-run workshop in and around Athens, Greece. They don’t have storefronts. Most don’t sell online. They create handcrafted silver and gold jewelry quietly, the traditional way — and we work with them directly. Through Athena Gaia, you’re given rare access to these makers: authentic Greek jewelry, produced just for you, with custom sizes, finishes, and details that big retail brands simply can’t offer.
Maramenos & Pateras | Art in 18k Gold
Created in Athens, Greece, Maramenos & Pateras bring us inspiration from Hellenic architecture, geology, mythology, and nature.
"We are proud to be one of the Greek jewelers that follow the steps of our ancestors, thus promoting a history of 6.000 years"
Metals: Solid 18k gold
Stones: All Natural
Range: ($$$ - $$$$)
Gerochristo | Master of Detail
Spiros is the father of the "Modern Greek Traditional" style of jewelry and also its most prolific contributor. Gerochristo crafts hundreds of new pieces every year, now with his daughter Sofia. Whenever you see a two-toned style (18k gold on sterling silver) with ornate detailing and colorful stones, chances are that its roots can be traced back to the workshop.
Metals: Solid 18k gold,Sterling Silver
Stones: All Natural
Range: ($$ - $$$$)
Kouzoupis | The Style Keepers
"The various periods of the long history and the magnificent civilizations of Greece, as well as the simple and clean lines of the rich Greek nature, are the point of reference and inspirations of the company's jewelry." - Konstantinos A. Kouzoupis
Metals: Solid 18k gold with Diamonds
Stones: All Natural
Range: ($$$ - $$$$)
Yianni | Luxury in Silver
Yianni has quickly become one of our most popular designers. While his artistry fits squarely in the "Modern Greek Traditional" movement started by Gerochristo, his choice of materials and ornate yet rugged style has expanded the movement in a genuinely new direction while keeping his prices accessible to everyone.
Stones: All Natural
Range: ($ - $$$)
Range: ($ - $$$)
Al'Oro | The Delicate Touch
Why Al'Oro? Meet the workshop that supplies chains to just about all of Greece! They also make popular and unique products with those chains, such delicate necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings—many with semi precious stone options.
Metals: Solid 14k and 18k Yellow, White, and Rose Gold
Stones: Diamond, Zircon
Range: ($ - $$$)
Stilvi | Nature Meets Metal
At the end of the day we believe in art, and when we see a designer making a genuine effort to explore a new style of their own invention (and it's good!) ... we get a little weak in the knees. Art doesn't have to cost thousands of dollars, so expect friendly pricing for these unique designs.
Metals: 14k Gold, Sterling Silver with both solid and plated Gold
Stones: All Natural
Range: ($ - $$)
Evangelatos | Cheerful Excellence
The next generation — Alexandra Evangelatos inherits her late father's aesthetic and sense of self as she breathes new life in classic family jewelry designs while creating a colorful new line of her own. We're excited to watch her new work evolve out of Athens.
Metals: Sterling Silver with 18k Gold
Stones: All Natural
Range: ($ - $$$$)
How Greek Jewelry Is Really Made (and How You’re Able to Buy It)
Most of the finest Greek jewelry is not made by large brands or factories. It’s created inside small workshops tucked into neighborhoods around Athens, where silversmiths and goldsmiths work at benches passed down through generations.
These artisans don’t operate retail stores. Most don’t run websites. Their work is traditionally sold locally to Plaka and the islands, through relationships built over decades.
That’s where Athena Gaia comes in.
For more than 20 years, we’ve worked directly with these workshops — visiting them in person, knowing the makers by name, and bringing their work to customers who would otherwise never have access to it.
When you order from us, your piece is often made specifically for you in Greece. That’s why we can offer custom lengths, sizes, metal combinations, and finishes.
You’re not buying from inventory.
You’re buying from the bench of a Greek artisan.
This is not mass-produced jewelry.
This is how Greek jewelry has always been made.
And now, you’re part of that story.
A craftsman at one of the gold workshops melts 75% gold in their onsite furnace to ready it for the artisans on another floor. Photo by Joanne during one of Joanne and Pete's many visits to Athens.