Story

I was maybe ten when I made my first bracelet — carved out of a piece of wood I found in the garden. It didn’t fit quite right, and the string kept slipping, but it was mine. I didn’t know anything about jewelry, but I knew I liked creating things that felt personal.

Years later, wandering through a market in Asia, I saw someone shaping silver like it was soft clay — raw, precise, effortless. Watching that, something clicked.

I wasn’t supposed to be the maker.
I was supposed to bring the idea.

That’s how MENDEL JWLR started — not with a perfectly cut gem, but with a story.
With the need to wear something that looked like it had lived.

Because this brand isn’t about shiny things that sit untouched in boxes.

It’s about pieces that live. That get scraped up in your pocket on a road trip. That clink against a bottle during a late-night conversation. That gather stories like dust — and wear them proudly.

We don’t care for flawless. We care for real.
We don’t do mass production. We do character.
We don’t erase imperfections. We highlight them.
Because they mean you’ve been somewhere.

MENDEL JWLR is for the ones who’ve tried, failed, laughed, cracked, climbed, wandered, lost, found.
For the ones still figuring it out — and not pretending otherwise.