We do not design jewellery; we construct architectural narratives sealed in silver, bronze, and gold. Silver & Elegant was founded on the belief that the most enduring objects are those shaped with rigorous intelligence and immense discipline. Each piece is a Future Heirloom — durable enough to outlive its creator. By distancing ourselves from the reflexes of fast consumption and transient trends, we establish permanence as our definitive design standard.
Every design begins not simply with a sketch, but with a structural problem: what form should permanence take? To bring this rational architecture into the physical world, each form is refined through traditional craftsmanship in our Istanbul atelier — shaped by the hands of a master, using the lost-wax casting technique. The metal bears the marks of human judgement and intention. What the hand creates, time preserves.
I am Esen Tunalı Sarı FRSA. I was born in Ruse, Bulgaria, a city shaped by the heavy, uncompromising geometry of Brutalist architecture along the Danube. As a child, my family moved to Istanbul and settled in Bakırköy. Our neighbours were almost entirely silversmiths and jewellers, most working daily in the historic Kapalıçarşı district. I grew up surrounded by that craft — not as a visitor, but as someone who watched it practiced next door, every day, as an ordinary part of life. My family's path then continued to the Netherlands, and finally to the United Kingdom. Today, in our home studio in Borehamwood, London, I bring these influences into a single language — designing narrative forms, and returning to the same Istanbul district where I first learned to understand metal, to have each piece finished by hand.
Some pieces begin with a structural problem; others begin with a hand sketch, a material study, or a memory. Both paths lead to the same question: what form should permanence take?