What Never Makes It to Retail
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Every piece you've ever seen of mine in stores started somewhere else first.
It started on my bench, in San José, as an idea I couldn't stop thinking about — a new way to cast a hummingbird's wing so it catches the light differently, a jaguar's eye rendered in a level of detail that only makes sense up close, a shape I 3D-printed at 2am because I couldn't wait until morning to see if it would work.
Most of those ideas become what you know: the collection. Small batches, hand-finished in 950 silver, carried into retail so you can find them along your trip.
But not all of them make that trip. Some stay with me.
That's what Studio Pieces is.
It's the part of my work that doesn't get mass-produced — the experiments, the prototypes, the one-off casts that came out exactly right and will probably never be repeated the same way twice. Some of it is a technique I'm still testing. Some of it is simply too new, too small a batch, or too strange and specific to ever sit on a retail shelf. If it's in this collection, it exists because I made it — not because a store ordered it.
I started keeping track of these pieces because travelers kept asking the same question after buying something from my regular collection: "Do you have anything else? Something different?" The truth was always yes. It just wasn't anywhere they could see it.
Now it is.
Why this matters if you're planning your trip home
If Costa Rica gave you something you didn't expect — a feeling, a moment, a version of yourself you didn't know was in there — a piece from the regular collection will always hold that. But if what you're looking for is something almost no one else will have, something that came directly off my bench instead of out of a stockroom, this is where you look.
Studio Pieces is available by direct order only. Order online, and if you're staying near SJO before your flight, I can get it to your hotel the same day, by motorcycle courier — no detour to retail required.
Costa Rica isn't a place you visit once and forget. Some of you already know that. This collection is for the ones who want to take home something that proves it.