From space
to body.
ARKVEIL is a jewelry house founded by two women architects. It selects independent jewelry studios across Asia, today from China and Nepal, and publishes its own editions. Before jewelry, we worked through rooms, corridors, thresholds and facades — always on the relationship between a body and the space around it. Over time our attention moved closer: from the room to the object, from architecture around the body to structure placed directly on it.
Jewelry became the smallest architecture we could work with.
Our story → Journal →Objects
Our house edit. Each object is named by what it does to the body and released in chapters, not seasons.
ARKVEIL Designers
Independent studios across Asia, selected by ARKVEIL. The object keeps its designer's name; we add ours only as the one who chose it.
Editions
Works from our founder's studio, published here in limited printings. Artwork by X.C Studio, adjacent to the objects, never among them.
What does this object change?
We do not begin with decoration. We begin with that question.
An earring extends the line of a jaw. A ring interrupts the geometry of a hand. A rigid curve holds a space open against the skin. A small shift in proportion changes a whole silhouette.
Some objects extend. Some fold. Some hold. Some distort. The body is the site; the object is the intervention.
Shaped by two cities.
One of us came through Los Angeles — open light, long shadows, the quiet geometry of distance. The other through New York — density, friction, bodies constantly negotiating with the city around them.
Both of us were trained at the scale of buildings. ARKVEIL is based in Los Angeles; New York never quite left. The house is where the two ways of seeing meet.
Form & Material
A close study of the object: weight, surface, structure, and proportion. We look at how each piece sits, moves, and feels against the body.
Space & Image
Light, shadow, and the space around a piece. We use images to explore how an object changes the body's outline and the way it is seen.
Not jewelry about architecture.
Jewelry seen through it.
We are not interested in pieces that quote buildings. We are interested in the questions an architect asks of anything: How does a line continue beyond the body? Where does an object touch, hover, compress, or leave space? How does it change from the front, from the side, in motion?
Every piece — ours or a designer's we select — must do something. Extend a line. Shift a proportion. Interrupt a silhouette. Hold space. If it changes nothing, it does not belong.
ARKVEIL grows out of a continuing practice across architecture, visual art and object design, recognized internationally for its architecture and design work. It is not an architecture project reduced in scale; it is a separate practice with the body at its center.
A museum. A boat. An earring. The scale changes. The question stays the same: what does the object do to the space around the body?
Selected EUNXY · Form Around the Body · Unfolding a Silk Edition
Some images use AI-generated models or digitally rendered objects, including on product pages.