about AGOVIA
AGOVIA is a fine jewellery studio in Suite 509 of the Nicholas Building, on the corner of Swanston Street and Flinders Lane. It began in Brunswick in 2023 and moved into the city, into an old building of small studios where the lift takes its time.
Most of the work is bespoke. Someone arrives with a stone, an idea, or a ring inherited and never worn, and the piece takes shape in conversation: drawn by hand, then made at the bench a few steps away.
The rest is small batch: a handful of each design, sometimes fewer, because every stone is 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 family lines, and they do not sit neatly together. They are not meant to.
Everything is made to be worn daily, in platinum, gold or silver, all nickel-free. The wearing decides the making: band thickness, setting and alloy are settled before anything else.
A piece that lives in a drawer has not done its job.
jasper agostini hudson
Jasper Agostini Hudson designs every AGOVIA piece and makes most of them at the bench. The hand that quotes a commission is the hand that sees it through, from the first conversation to the day the piece is collected.
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.
Bring a stone, an idea, or a ring waiting to be remade. AGOVIA will come back to you with what it would take.
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