Caitlin Mociun

Caitlin Mociun is a fine jewelry designer in Williamsburg who hand-fabricates each piece in New York City, beginning with stones from her personal gem library selected for how light moves through them rather than their grades.

Caitlin Mociun starts with the stone. Every piece in her fine jewelry line (hand-fabricated in New York City) begins in a gem library she's assembled over years: unusual cuts, off-color diamonds, minerals chosen for how the light moves through them rather than how they rank on a grading chart. A California native who spent her teens moving through Malaysia and Prague before earning a BFA in textiles at RISD, Mociun pivoted from fashion into jewelry around 2008, drawn to the permanence of metal and stone. Bauhaus principles run through the formal logic of her work: geometric, uncluttered, but never austere. Her Driggs Avenue flagship (which she designed herself, down to the glass-brick walls and ash wood cases) doubles as a curatorial project, stocking handmade ceramics, glassware, and objects from emerging makers worldwide. The animating question, across all of it, is what it means to make something worth keeping.