expertly crafted

Marine themes inspire a whimsical blue-ink pen crafted by the expert hands of Lorena and Marcela from Costa Rica. Using synthetic elements, the artisans recreate a natural scene inside the resin structure, featuring a little ray, leaves and stones. The item also comes with black and blue ink refills for long-lasting use.

Become an expert in the culinary arts with this fabulous and practical gift set from Mexico curated by the NOVICA team, featuring everything you need to make magic happen in the kitchen. Begin by putting on a stunning apron crafted from gabardine in a lovely navy blue shade, with beautiful cotton hand-embroidered geometric accents on the pockets. Then, start preparing your favorite meals by grinding and blending herbs and anything you can think of with the help of a mortar and its accompanying pestle, expertly carved by hand from mahogany wood. Once you are finished cooking, store your kitchen utensils in style in a colorful utensil holder woven by hand from palm leaf fibers. And finally, plate up your gourmet creation in a colorful ceramic serving bowl so beautifully hand-painted with dazzling motifs that you can use it also for decorative purposes alone.

Every day is a new challenge and world, and so there must be a unique style to wear! As an expert in jewelry, Indian artisan Bhavya Jain crafts a marvelous set of 14 stud earrings, each with a unique design made from sterling silver. The accessories come in a polished finish and feature a myriad of precious gemstones: reconstituted turquoise, onyx, garnet, citrine, amethyst, carnelian, cubic zirconia, ruby, labradorite and cultured pearls.

Stylized peacocks and pretty flowers pose on festive ornaments — one each in green, red, yellow and orange. Working in an ancient art they learned from their father, the Canto Sisters craft the set from dried gourds harvested from the yerba mate plant. They are cleaned, dried and painted before the images are meticulously engraved around the surface by hand.

Cultivated on the Peruvian coast for 6,000 years, mate gourds were decorated with images of birds and fish by the pre-Inca Moche and Chimu peoples. But it was the Inca who went on to use the gourds as cups and bowls, in ceremonial objects and in musical instruments.

Because each unique piece is handcrafted from a natural gourd, please expect slight variations in shape, size and motifs.