OUR STORY

The world of Gilt Theory imagines a woman endlessly drawn to beauty. She is self-possessed and unmistakably tasteful. She wants every piece in her life to celebrate the art of design and the rhythm of life.

From the beginning, she wanted to build a business with longevity: one grounded in values, thoughtful in its process, and committed to doing things the right way.

Gilt Theory started with the founder trying to purchase a piece of fine jewelry for herself. She couldn’t find what she was looking for at retail: the design lacked the thoughtfulness she wanted, while the pieces that resonated were unattainably priced.

After visiting the New York Diamond District, she discovered that working closer to the source could make fine jewelry considerably more attainable—but the experience revealed another gap. The focus was on sourcing and production, rather than design.

It started with a question: could fine jewelry be thoughtfully designed and still priced attainably?

She spent the following year vetting bench jewellers and production partners, developing a way to marry considered design with a more attainable price point.

The result was Gilt Theory: fine jewelry with personality, designed with intention and made to be lived in.

The brand grew from two worlds that had long shaped her: fine arts and business. Fine arts gave her an instinct for proportion, composition, and form. Business gave her the foundation to turn that instinct into something enduring.

Her inspiration is three-fold: history, vintage jewelry, and fashion silhouettes.