Meet the Makers: The Designers Behind Trébor Style
Every piece at Trébor Style comes from somewhere specific — a workshop in Milan, a studio in San Francisco, a family business four decades in the making. We built this around designers who build their own craft. Here are a few of the people behind the pieces.
ZIIO — Milan, Italy
Founded by Elisabeth Paradon in the early 1990s, ZIIO has spent over 30 years pairing Murano glass and semi-precious stone with sterling silver, entirely by hand — no two pieces exactly alike. The brand has been carried by international buyers at Barneys, Bloomingdale's, and Harrods, with Queen Rania of Jordan among its wearers.
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Rajola — Italy
Rajola's signature material is Sciacca coral, sourced from the Sicilian coastal town it's named for — a material with a centuries-long history in southern Italian jewelry-making. Each piece pairs that coral with sterling silver and gold in designs that feel rooted in place rather than trend.
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Sanalitro Gioielli — Milan, Italy
Every Sanalitro piece passes through the hands of master stone cutter Massimo Sanalitro, hand-sculpting gemstones into one-of-a-kind designer drops rather than machine-faceting them to a standard cut. The result is jewelry where the stone's shape is as considered as its setting.
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Dyanne Belle — Woman-Owned
Dyanne Belle's pieces are handmade, one-of-a-kind, and built around a distinctly celestial sensibility — pavé-set discs and Tahitian pearls arranged like small solar systems. A woman-owned studio making the kind of jewelry that reads as sculptural first, wearable second.
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Mabel Chong — San Francisco, USA
Mabel Chong's story starts with a single pair of her mother's gold earrings, sold to help fund the family's move from rural China to Hong Kong. Self-taught and self-funded, Mabel launched her own line in 2004 and opened her San Francisco studio in 2007 — and still travels to gem shows around the world to hand-select every stone that goes into her designs.
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Frederic Duclos — France & California
Frederic Duclos grew up in southeastern France in a family that had designed accessories for generations, studied in Paris, then partnered with his wife Karen in California to found their studio in 1984. Together they built one of the few electroforming workshops in the US — a manufacturing method that let Frederic push sterling silver into sculptural shapes most contemporaries weren't attempting. Over 40 years later, the studio is still designing with one rule: every piece starts with a specific woman in mind.
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Martha Seely — USA
Martha Seely's path to jewelry started in costume design — dressing characters for theater, film, and television before she began designing pieces of her own. That background shows: her celestial-inspired collections, drawn from NASA Hubble and Chandra telescope imagery, carry the same sense of movement and drama as a costume built for the stage. She works in recycled precious metals and responsibly sourced gemstones, with a minimalist sensibility she traces back to her Scandinavian heritage.
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More designer stories to come — this is the first of an ongoing series. Browse the full designer directory here.