About
Small jewelry, made close.
FURLUMI is a small jewelry studio. We design in Shanghai and finish each piece in a Guangzhou workshop with people we know by name. Thirty pieces across four edits — Letter, Pearl, Line, Evening — held to a single standard: sterling silver, 1.5 micron 18k gold vermeil, real freshwater pearls, honest weights and lengths on every product page.
What we believe.
Most small jewelry is sold like it's a logo. We'd rather sell it like it's an object — a weight in grams, a length in centimeters, a real pearl with a real grade. The FURLUMI website is the opposite of mystery: every product page lists material, plating spec, weight, dimension, clasp, stone, chain length, and origin. If you wouldn't want to read it on a Mejuri or Catbird page, we shouldn't hide it on ours.
What we make.
- Letter — small symbols kept near the skin. Heart pendants, signets, initials, lockets.
- Pearl — freshwater pearls (AA–AAA grade) on fine silver chains, with bezels and frames.
- Line — open shapes and clean edges. Hollow ovals, cubes, knife edges, slim bars.
- Evening — pieces with a touch more weight or drape for after-dark light.
How we make it.
Every piece starts as a sketch on paper or a digital model in our Shanghai studio. The shape is reviewed on a small in-house print, adjusted, and sent to a Guangzhou workshop we've worked with for four years. The workshop casts in sterling silver 925, electroplates a 1.5 micron 18k gold vermeil layer under heat (heavier than the 0.5 micron plating most $25 brands use), and hand-polishes the surface. The three onyx Letter pieces — Heart on Shell, Moon Note, Night Drop — are brass with a sterling-silver post, plated 1 micron 18k gold, with the onyx cabochons set by hand. Each finished piece is weighed, photographed, inspected for plating evenness, and packed in a FURLUMI cotton pouch and recycled card box before it leaves.
Pricing.
FURLUMI starts at $21 and tops out at $62. We work directly with the workshop and ship directly to you. No retailers, no markups. A US boutique vermeil necklace of the same gauge and weight typically costs $90–140; the same materials and workshop standard in our hands cost $34–46. That difference is the entire point.
Founder.
FURLUMI is run by Maris Chen — Shanghai-born, returned home in 2025 after three years at a small jewelry studio in Brooklyn. The brand began with one small object: a brass heart pendant her grandmother kept inside a sandalwood box for decades, engraved with “good luck” in cursive. Maris was eight when her grandmother gave it to her; thirty-two when she lost her. The first edit of thirty pieces is built around what that pendant taught her — small enough to keep close, honest enough to last beyond one season.
The Guangzhou workshop is led by master jeweler Mr. Chen, with a five-person team handling casting, plating, stone setting, and polish. We do not name customer accounts on the public site for their privacy — we do name the workshop for their craft.
Quiet endorsements.
FURLUMI launches in 2026 — no public reviews yet. These are short, unpaid responses from a handful of friends and early-circle wearers who tried pieces before launch. We're keeping names short and asking permission before each one goes up.
"Wore the Letter Heart for three weeks. Forgot it was on by week one — that's the highest compliment I can pay a pendant."
— L., Brooklyn (stylist)"Got the Half Pearl as a birthday gift from Maris. The half-pearl shape sits cleaner against the lobe than any full pearl stud I own."
— J., Shanghai (editor)"The Thin Bar lives on me. The 25mm scale is exactly the size that disappears under a sleeve but holds up close."
— A., London (designer)"Ordered three Editorial hand chains for my team for our magazine launch. Quiet, restrained, doesn't compete with the outfit."
— K., Bangkok (content director)"The Heart, on Shell is the first onyx piece I've actually kept after the first wash. The bezel work is real."
— M., Hong Kong (gallerist)
Questions you'd ask at a counter, you can ask us by email. We answer within 24 hours. support@furlumi.com