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Maison Medina, bespoke jewelry, Victoria, British Columbia

Nothing here exists yet. Every piece begins as a conversation.

The Collection · One
A round brilliant-cut diamond in a slender six-claw white-metal solitaire setting, lit from one side on dark slate.

The Rosedale Solitaire

PLATINUM · 2.4 CT OLD EUROPEAN CUT · 2024

Commissioned around a stone that had been in one family since 1948.

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The Collection · Two
A yellow-gold ring with pierced scrollwork along the shoulders and a milgrain edge, set with a round brilliant-cut diamond, on dark slate.

The Cordova Band

18K WHITE GOLD · HAND-CUT PAVÉ · 2025

Eleven stones, each seated by hand. The profile sits flush.

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The Collection · Three
A round white-metal pendant of openwork filigree set with blue sapphires of several cuts around a larger oval centre stone, on slate.

The Fairfield Pendant

PLATINUM · MONTANA SAPPHIRE · 2025

A stone chosen for the way it changes colour under different light.

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The House

We do not keep a collection. Every piece leaves the bench once, for one person, and is never made again.

Three halo rings and a diamond chain arranged on slate beside a black Maison Medina case, with lavender, rose petals and quartz.
Commissioned pieces, photographed before they leave

Five stages,
ninety-one hours at the bench

  1. Conversation

    An hour, usually two. What it is for, who wears it, what they already own. Nothing is drawn yet.

  2. Design

    Hand sketches first, then CAD. You approve the renders before a gram of metal is ordered.

  3. The Stone

    Sourced to the brief and shown to you before it is bought. Certificates where they exist, our eyes where they do not.

  4. The Bench

    Cast, filed, set, polished. The longest stage and the quietest. Photographed as it goes.

  5. The House

    Finished, certified, boxed. Delivered in person in Victoria, or shipped insured.

Materials

Metal

Platinum, 18k in three colours, recycled where the assay allows.

Rough

Selected at the parcel, before anything is committed.

Cut

Shown to you under daylight and under lamp before it is bought.

Set

Seated by hand. The stone decides the setting, never the reverse.

Portrait

Dua Medina

Founder · Victoria, British Columbia

I opened Maison Medina in 1991 and have been at the bench ever since. I work alone and take one commission at a time, which keeps the work slow and the attention undivided. Most of what I know came from taking nearly-right things apart to find out why they were only nearly right.

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