Dimitria

As a child, her summers were divided between two old worlds. Her mother's family came from Kounina, a village in the hills of Achaea above the Gulf of Corinth — feast days, stone houses, the slow rhythm of mountain life. Her father's home was the island of Lesvos — Mytilini, as the Greeks call it — far across the Aegean, near the Anatolian coast: olive groves, salt-bleached light, a place that has been making things by hand for three thousand years.

Her first job in fine jewelry was at Edith Weber Associates on the corner of 77th and Madison — a legendary collection of rare antique and period jewelry, catering to the elite of New York. The kind of place where you learned by holding things older than your grandmother and listening to people who knew. Upper East Side. Brass nameplates. Velvet trays.

In the late nineties, she settled in San Francisco with her husband, and the city became her stomping ground for the next two decades. From Cow Hollow to Union Square to the independent ateliers of the Mission and Hayes Valley, she worked at — and helped shape — some of the most respected fine jewelry houses on the West Coast.

In November of 2023, after thirty years on other people's counters, she opened her own door — a small boutique on Water Street in historic downtown Mystic, on the Groton side of the river, one block from the bascule bridge. Open to the public three days a week, and by private appointment two more.