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You should not have to choose between jewelry worth wearing and the pride of making it yourself.

Rare By Me is a limited-release, live-guided jewelry-making experience built around something more lasting than the piece: learning how to create it.

CPL source photograph of Marina Merfi and Ira Copel with their ceramic jewelry.
Marina Merfi and Ira Copel with ceramic jewelry from their shared practice. Photograph from CPL.

Not jewelry chosen from a shelf. We provide the materials, tools, and live guidance, you decide what they become.

The piece you wear afterward is proof: you can make something worth talking about.

Origin romance is part of the brand. We use the country, area, material memory, and visual clues we have, then turn them into a private piece story the wearer can carry.

Jewelry with a past. Made by you.

Your guides

Meet Marina and Ira.

Mother and daughter, their ceramic jewelry began as shared curiosity. They still create together across two studios.

CPL source portrait of Marina Merfi wearing her ceramic jewelry.

Marina Merfi

artists, curators and guides

Marina moved from graphic and fashion design into clay and teaches the ceramic practice they began together.

CPL source portrait of Ira Copel wearing her ceramic jewelry.

Ira Copel

artists, curators and guides

Ira continues their design and assembly work from another studio, keeping the shared practice moving between them.