About Gabriele Paolo
A bespoke fine jewellery maker and Mokume-gane specialist, working quietly from a bench in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. Working entirely in precious metals, carrying the discipline of the craft into contemporary fine jewellery.
Trained in the Quarter, shaped at the bench
Gabriele Paolo Gucci came to jewellery the long way. A formal grounding at the School of Jewellery in Birmingham gave him the language of the craft, but it was the years on the bench afterwards, alongside makers in the Jewellery Quarter, that taught him the patience of it.
He chose Mokume-gane after seeing a single forged billet. The pattern pulled out of the metal struck him as the closest a maker can get to a fingerprint. From that point the practice took its current shape: classical fine jewellery on one hand, and a quiet, ongoing study of Mokume-gane in precious metals on the other.
The bench remains the centre of everything. Every commission begins and ends in the same small studio, in the same square mile of Birmingham where the Quarter has worked precious metal for over two hundred years.
- 2014Began training at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham
- 2016Graduated, then took up bench work in the Jewellery Quarter
- 2018First Mokume-gane billets forged in precious metals
- 2021Established the practice as Gabriele Paolo Jewellery
- TodayCommissions, remodelling and Mokume-gane from the Birmingham bench
Birmingham Jewellery Quarter
The studio sits inside the historic Jewellery Quarter, a square mile that has shaped precious metal in Britain since the late eighteenth century. It is the natural home for a practice like this one.
Every stage of every commission happens here, by hand. Design consultations, billet forging for Mokume-gane, ring construction, setting, finishing and final hallmarking - all carried out in the same room, by the same maker.
- Engagement & wedding rings
- Mokume-gane commissions
- Pendants, earrings & bracelets
- Heirloom remodelling
- Repairs & resizing
Made by hand. Made for one.
Three ideas hold the practice together. They decide what we take on, how we work it, and how a finished piece eventually leaves the bench.
Made by hand
Every piece is forged, filed and finished at the bench. No outsourced casting houses, no anonymous production line - just the maker and the metal.
Mokume-gane, in precious metals
A three-century-old Japanese forging tradition, worked here in 18ct golds, palladium and silver. The pattern in each billet is unrepeatable.
One person, one piece
Bespoke means built around a story. We design, forge and finish for a single wearer, a single occasion, a single ring.
A ring made for one wearer.
Commissions begin with a quiet conversation. Tell us about the piece, the person, the occasion - we will take it from there.