"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."
- George Eliot

For Xandra Uribe, jewelry is not just ornament—it is ritual, ancestry, play, and joy made visible.⁠
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Through her project Frijolatorio, Uribe cultivates heirloom beans—tiny, sacred vessels once used by pre-Columbian peoples as adornments and ceremonial objects. In GARDEN, these seeds reemerge as luminous sculptures, cast in bronze, silver, and gold using pre-Columbian lost-wax techniques by Antioquian goldsmiths.⁠

Uribe’s “golden beans” are not simply precious—they are reminders of the region’s rich cultural biodiversity; they are messengers of the divine, in the spirit of the Moche warriors from the northern coast of Peru. Each piece is a living amulet—an object of beauty that carries within it stories of migration, memory, and magic.⁠

With close to 4,000 native bean varieties in Colombia alone, and 45,000 grown globally, Uribe sees beans as pure and honest jewels, true to the original meaning of the word: something that brings joy. The word jewel comes from the Old French joel, rooted in joie—joy. Her beans, then, are reminders that diversity—like beauty—is embedded in the soil and soul of the world.⁠

In GARDEN, Uribe invites us to play, to wonder, and to wear some of the world’s oldest jewelry in new, radiant ways.⁠