Gift Card
Regular price £25.00
Choosing the perfect gift isn’t always easy, our digital Gift Cards take the uncertainty out of gift giving. When you purchase a digital Gift Card, you will receive an e-mail with a unique code. Enter this code during check out to redeem the voucher. Our digital gift cards can be used to purchase anything from our web shop.
- Gift cards expire 12 months from the purchase date
- Gift cards cannot be exchanged for cash
- If the total order value is less than the value of the gift card, any balance will remain on the card and may be applied to future purchases, provided that the card has not expired
- If you return goods you have purchased using a gift card, the credit will be issued back to the gift card
- Promotions and discounts do not apply to the purchase of gift cards
About Us
Julia Georgallis and Jess Jones have been firm friends since they met in 2007 while studying Product & Furniture Design at Kingston University. Their first collection, TIME, was designed in 2009 in response to a university brief which set the task of combining the ancient process of lost wax casting with the relatively new process of rapid prototyping, or 3D printing as it’s more commonly known.
They quickly realised that 3D printing made it possible to cast unique pieces and, although jewellery wasn’t a common outcome for students on their course, it was obvious that a bespoke jewellery system was a perfect answer to the brief. Jewellery often marks a significant moment or memory and by creating custom-made pieces where the shape is influenced by an individual’s special date, this sentimentality is enhanced. With a specially designed algorithm to translate data to dimensions, the first object in the collection was created – TIME rings. After graduating the pair exhibited the rings during London Design Festival 2010 and went on to expand the range and sell jewellery for a couple of years.
Then, as often happens, life got in the way - Jess went on to have a successful career in marketing for London based design brands Skandium, Richard Brendon Studio and SCP and Julia freelanced as a product designer, graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2014, before retraining as a baker and starting a career in the food and hospitality industry.
In 2019, ten years after first designing together, they decided to relaunch their jewellery as part of a wider studio concept, with more ideas on how to create thoughtful, bespoke pieces. Meta Studio is forged with friendship and a joint understanding of what jewellery should not only look like, but also feel like to wear.
COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY
Meta is a slow jewellery brand. We make bespoke pieces that are made to order, which means that we don’t produce any waste or unnecessary stock. All of our pieces are produced in Birmingham’s prestigious jewellery quarter by skilled, heritage artisans and technologists. We do not invest in unsustainable materials or work practices.