Gold: From Earth to Atelier
By Marcus Hale
Every gram of gold that enters our atelier carries documentation tracing it back to its source mine. We work exclusively with Fairmined-certified operations in Colombia and Peru, where small-scale miners receive fair compensation and environmental standards are enforced at every stage. The raw gold arrives as granules — unassuming beads that betray nothing of the fire and lustre locked within.
Our goldsmiths alloy the pure 24-karat gold with precise quantities of copper, silver, and palladium to achieve the 18-karat standard that defines our work. The result is a metal that balances warmth, hardness, and workability. This is where science meets craft: the proportions differ by fractions of a percent depending on whether the gold will be drawn into wire, hammered into sheet, or cast into a complex form..