about AGOVIA
I make jewellery in Suite 509 of the Nicholas Building, on the corner of Swanston Street and Flinders Lane. AGOVIA has been here since 2023. It is an old building full of small studios, with a lift that takes its time.
Most of what leaves here is bespoke. Someone arrives with a stone, or an idea, or a ring they inherited and have never worn. We work out what it should become, I draw it, and it is made at the bench a few steps from where we had the conversation.
The rest is small batch. A handful of each piece, sometimes fewer, because the stones are chosen one at a time, direct from merchants in Australia, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Thailand, the US and the UK.
The work borrows from Australian, Carib, Corsican and Trinidadian design. Those are my family's, and they do not sit neatly together.
All of it is made to be worn daily, in platinum, gold or silver, all nickel-free. That decides the band thickness, the setting and the alloy before anything else is settled.
A piece that lives in a drawer has not done its job.
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I design every AGOVIA piece and make most of them at the bench myself. Either way, the person who quotes your commission is the person who sees it through, from the first conversation to the day you collect it.
How to say it
AGOVIA is a portmanteau of two family names, Agostini and Govia.
It is said ag-oh-vai-yuh.
The studio sits on the fifth floor of the Nicholas Building: a bench, a case of finished work, and windows that let in enough light to judge a stone by. Every piece is made here, from the first drawing to the final polish. Visits are by appointment.
Suite 509, The Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC 3000.
If you have a stone, an idea, or a ring you would like remade, tell me about it and I will come back to you with what it would take.
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