Anna Monet

"Every unique piece is made with love and the hope that it will go beyond just jewelry. Each Anna Monet piece is meant to spark conversations about sustainability and great design as inseparable standards and to become talismans of protection and prized possessions in celebration of each woman as an exemplary expression of nature's beauty."

San Francisco jewelry designer Anna Monet finds inspiration in the natural beauty of life on the west coast. She combines her passion for metalsmithing and love of intentionally sourced, unique, organic materials to create her eclectic statement jewelry.

The materials Anna Monet uses in her work (e.g., horsehair, metal) have primitive roots traceable to ancient times. Although they are fascinating on their own, she explores and maximizes their possibilities with soldering, shaping, cutting, binding, dyeing, etc. Anna uses horsehair ethically gathered by Native American artisans in the US. After receiving raw horsehair, it is bound and dyed by hand with flowers, roots, and spices such as roses, Himalayan salt, indigo, redwood bark, and madder root. It is then set in sterling silver, gold-plated brass, or recycled gold.

Anna Monet is a self-taught artisan who learned her jewelry-making craft by practicing it for over 15 years. She completed basic metalworking training at the Scintillant Studio in San Francisco.