MR-01
Le Méridien
From $9,400
Halo solitaire
A brilliant centre ringed in rose gold, on a split platinum shank whose two halves each carry eleven stones.
1.20 ct brilliant · 18k rose gold + platinum 950
Try it onProvidence, Rhode IslandFictional concept
Every stonehas ameridian.
Cutters call it the meridian: the one line through a rough stone where light goes in and comes back out. We find it first, then build the ring around it — never the other way round.
18k & platinum · cut and set in-house · six-week commissions
Ref MR-011.20 ct · G · VS1
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Est. 2009 — Jewelry District
Every stone independently graded
Cast, filed and set under one roof
Lifetime re-polish, no charge
The collectionSix pieces we keep
Six pieces we keep
in the salon.
These are made in sizes 4 to 9 and sit in the case today. Everything else is made to your hand — see bespoke.
MR-04
Trace
From $11,200
Pear halo
Six claws on a pear centre, a halo of fourteen full cuts around it and eighteen more down the shoulders.
0.90 ct pear · platinum 950
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MR-07
Solstice
From $7,800
Coloured stone
A radiant-cut pink sapphire from one Ceylon parcel, haloed in brilliants and cut down into rose gold.
2.60 ct pink sapphire · 18k rose gold
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MR-11
Latitude
From $2,150 the pair
The band pair
Court-profile bands turned from a single bar so the colour matches, then engraved inside by hand before sizing.
18k yellow gold · 4 mm and 2.6 mm
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MR-16
Tidemark
From $3,200
Hand-raised earrings
Sheet gold folded over a steel stake until the ripples hold their shape. No two pairs fall the same way.
18k yellow gold · 26 mm · post fitting
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MR-21
Verdure
From $18,500
Filigree collar
Seven filigree medallions, carved tourmaline leaves and a drop that swings free. The ear-drop is sold with it or alone.
18k gold filigree · 11 green tourmalines
Try it onAnatomyFive parts.
Five parts.
One line of light.
Scroll and the ring on the right lifts apart — the same ring you were just turning, opened along its axis and put back together. Five pieces leave this bench as one: the shank, the basket, the seat cut into it, four claws, and the stone. The basket holds the pavilion four tenths of a millimetre clear of your finger, and that gap is the reason it still lights up at dusk, indoors, with the curtains shut.
- 01Shank
- Court section, 2.4 mm of 18k — domed inside so it turns without biting.
- 02Basket
- The open cage: it carries the seat and holds the pavilion off your finger.
- 03Seat
- A bearing turned at the pavilion's own angle, so the girdle lands all the way round.
- 04Claws
- Four in platinum 950, run up outside the girdle and bent over the crown.
- 05Stone
- 1.20 ct round brilliant — table, crown, girdle, pavilion, culet. 57 facets.
Same geometry as the ring above · opens on scroll · still and open if you prefer reduced motion
Bespoke
Commissioned in four sittings.
About half of what leaves this bench started as somebody else’s ring, or as a stone in a drawer. Bring it in. If it can be worn again we will tell you how, and if it cannot we will say that too.
- 0160 minutes · no charge
The conversation
You bring a photo, a budget, or nothing at all. We put trays on the table and find out whether you actually like what you think you like.
- 02Week 2
Drawing and wax
A hand drawing at scale, then a wax you can wear for ten minutes. Everything gets argued about now, while it is still soft.
- 03Weeks 3–5
Casting and setting
Cast upstairs, filed, and set at the bench. We send you a photograph the morning it goes into the kiln — most people frame it.
- 04Week 6
The fitting
Final sizing on your hand, hallmark, and your commission number goes into the book. First re-polish is booked before you leave.
Commission
Nº 087
Stone
1.48 ct · H · VS2
Quoted 4 March, in writing
$12,750
Six claws · platinum 950 · week 6
Bands
from $2,150
Set stones
from $4,500
Full commission
from $6,800
Re-setting your own stone
from $980
Gallery · the atelierTwo benches, one kiln,
Two benches, one kiln,
and the window.
Twelve frames from the last three months. Nothing leaves the workshop until it has been looked at in daylight, at the window on Chestnut Street, by somebody who did not make it.
01/12 Closing a band on the block. The seam goes at 780 °C. Bench 1 · Tuesday
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“A ring is a machine for holding light still. Everything else is decoration.”
House motto, painted over the kiln
StoriesWhat people say
What people say
after week six.
Invented people, invented town, invented house — this is a demo concept
Nº 041
We came in with my grandmother's ring — too worn to wear, too loved to melt. They cut the old band down and set it inside both of ours, so her hallmark is still in there against my finger. I did not plan to cry at a jeweller's bench on a Tuesday.
Nadia Okonjo-RossProvidence, RI
Latitude pair, commissioned in March
Off the tray
I am not a jewellery person. I sat with a coffee and a tray of pink sapphires for an hour and nobody hovered, nobody upsold me, nobody mentioned a payment plan. I picked the stone everyone else had passed over. It is the best thing I own.
Peter VanceNewport, RI
Solstice, bought off the tray
Nº 063
Six weeks to the day. Theo's finger is half a size bigger in summer, so they built a hidden bar inside his band for it — we never asked, they just noticed at the fitting. The photo they text you when it goes in the kiln is a lovely touch.
Danny & Theo BarlowNew Haven, CT
Two bands, commissioned in September
Re-set
My mother's emerald had been in a drawer since 1998 because no one would touch a stone with a chipped corner. They re-cut it a shade smaller, built the collar around it, and charged me for the work rather than for the drama.
Marisol ReyesBoston, MA
Verdure collar, re-set family stone
VisitFourth floor, above
Fourth floor, above
the old rolling mill.
Ring the buzzer marked 4A. There is no shop window and no doorman — there is a kettle, a bench with the light on, and usually a dog called Pewter.
Opening hours
- Tuesday – Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Sunday – Monday
- By appointment
- Commission fittings
- Thu & Fri, from 15:00
Where & how
212 Chestnut Street, 4A
Jewelry District, Providence, RI 02903
(401) 555-0164salon@meridian.example
Metered parking on Clifford Street; the garage on Richmond is free after 17:00. Step-free entrance at the rear, lift to the fourth floor.
Book a fitting
Demo form · sends nothingTell us what you are after and we will hold a bench slot. No deposit until the wax is approved. Prefer to talk? (401) 555-0164.
Before you book, in plain words
- Deposit
- Nothing until you have held the wax and approved it.
- Timing
- Six weeks from that approval. We hold two slots a week so the number stays honest.
- Afterwards
- Re-polish and claw re-tips at no charge, for as long as the piece is yours.
Before you come in
Questions we get every week.
Not on Tuesday to Saturday — walk in and someone will put a tray in front of you. Sunday and Monday the salon is closed to the street and open by appointment only, which is when commissions and re-sizings are usually seen.