Vol. I — No. 4Published where she is expectedNairobi · London · New York

The day’s noteNairobi — the house receives today.

Adorn your reign · Est. MMXXVI

In this numberA letter, three notices, nine plates, and the register of stones.

No. I — Safuthe Line · chosen today No. II — Ahadithe Promise · made to order No. III — Tajithe Crown · by appointment

OLORI

Account

Yellow sapphire rows worn as a high collar

Aquamarine necklace worn down the nape by lamplight

A letter, before anything is sold

Adorn your reign.

Fine jewellery and high jewellery, rooted in African royalty — cut in Nairobi the way titles are conferred: rarely, exactly, and for life.

Explore the Line Discover Taji — the Crown

Frontispiece — Wúrà · Jua: the yellow sapphire rows, worn as a collar of office.Frontispiece — Ìtànṣán · the Odò necklace: aquamarine, worn to the nape.Safu · Wúrà — forthcomingTaji · one of oneReserve by letter Request a private viewing

aquamarine · Jos Plateau — emerald · Kagem — ruby · Montepuez — sapphire · Ilakaka — tanzanite · Merelani — opal · Wollo — chrysoprase · Haneti — every stone papered, every mine named · aquamarine · Jos Plateau — emerald · Kagem — ruby · Montepuez — sapphire · Ilakaka — tanzanite · Merelani — opal · Wollo — chrysoprase · Haneti — every stone papered, every mine named ·

Notices of the house — three ways to wear a crown

Prices are spoken inside

I.Safu — the LineFine jewellery in small editions — chosen today, worn within the week. From $18,400.

II.Ahadi — the PromiseMade to order from a gouache you approve. Eight to twelve weeks.

III.Taji — the CrownHigh jewellery, one of one, received in the salon. Prices spoken inside.

The Shamba choker — emerald and tanzanite, one of one

Featured collection — the spotlight turns with the season

Ṣègi

SHEH-ghee — the royal-blue bead of the earliest crowns

Ṣègi were the blue beads reserved for kings and the royal priesthood, set into the oldest crowns. Rendered here in sapphire and diamond — from deepest royal to palest sky, the blue of the first crowns.

Ṣègi · Bahari$18,400 · three of nine remain Ṣègi · Mvua$21,500

The seven collections

Sapphire and diamond — the Ṣègi collection

Ṣègi · Bahari — the tassel, at rest. Safu · three of nine remain

Register of stones

Browse the house by stone

Montepuez, Mozambique

Named mines, papered stones, cutters paid as craftsmen. Choose a stone to follow it through the house — or read the covenant.

Best of the Line

The Line, entire

Ṣègi

Taji — the Crown

“Some pieces are not for sale in the ordinary way. Taji is met by appointment — and I bring the case myself.”

My grandmother wore coral the colour of an argument won. She taught me that a queen is not crowned so much as recognised — and that recognition, like colour, must be held with a steady hand.

— The Founder, Olori Jewels

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Ọlá · the Shamba choker — emerald and tanzanite;
one of one, received in the salon.

The plates, by lamplight

Figures II — IV

Aquamarine drop necklace with ruby spiral links on deep teal — Fig. II — Ìtànṣán · Zamani. Aquamarine of eleven carats, ruby at the throat of it.

Black opal necklace with cascading coloured stone fringe — Fig. III — Zuhura · Malkia. Opal from Wollo, refusing to choose a colour.

Pink sapphire chandelier earrings and layered diamond chokers against oxblood — Fig. IV — Neema · Waridi. Pink sapphire, worn in rows after midnight.

The Maison

Olori is a Yoruba title — she who is head, the queen beside the crown. A name from one coast of Africa, a house raised on another: we cut colour in Nairobi the way titles are conferred — rarely, exactly, and for life.

Every stone is named, papered, and traced to its African mine. Every setting is drawn by hand in the Nairobi atelier before a single claw is raised.

Enter the Maison — the letter in full

Hand-painted gouache drawing of a diamond and emerald necklace

Gouache on grey paper — the promise before the piece.

The atelier

Drawn by hand,
before it is ever set

Each commission begins as gouache on grey paper, the way court jewels have been promised for two centuries. You approve the painting before we touch the gold.

Begin an Ahadi commission

From the Journal

On wearing blue to a coronationNo. 4 The bead came before the diamondNo. 3 How a stone is given its nameNo. 2

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Letters from the house — one a month, and only when there is something to say. First looks before the vitrine is dressed.

Papered, not promised · Insured to your hand · A person answers within the day · Nothing is charged until dispatch — the notices, in full

A letter from the founder — i

I will tell you plainly what this house is for. Not for the gasp — for the quiet after it, when the room has risen and settled and you have not moved at all.

The letter continues — to Safu, the Line

The salon receives in Nairobi, Tuesday — Saturday

Nairobi, Karen — and London & New York, by travelling appointment.

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Adorn your reign.

Ṣègi

Register of stones

Best of the Line

Mvua — the rain

Kijani — green

Asubuhi — the morning

Malkia — the queen

The plates, by lamplight

Drawn by hand,before it is ever set

From the Journal

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Drawn by hand,
before it is ever set