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Our Story

Maris Pearl is a fine pearl brand rooted in the belief that beauty and purpose are not opposites. Founded in Hawai'i and shaped by a lifetime between oceans — the Aegean, the South China Sea, the Pacific — every piece is designed to carry a meaning as unique as its wearer.

We work with baroque pearls for their natural shape and their connection to the water that made them. Each piece is designed to be worn, loved, and passed down: jewelry that tells a story because it comes from one.

Founder Note

I'm Stephanie. Maris is my maiden name. In Latin, it means of the sea. My family is from the island of Andros, Greece; a place where the sea fed your family, shaped your culture, and carried your ancestors home. Today, I live on O‘ahu, in Hawai‘i; another beautiful island, half a world away.

I built my early career at the intersection of fine art and conservation, a surprising space that taught me that beauty and purpose don't have to be separate things. A pearl is the ocean’s response to intrusion: it takes something unwanted and makes it luminous. What if, similarly, a beautiful pearl pendant could remove marine litter from the ocean?

Maris Pearl was formed around that idea. Our studio has grown alongside my family, and my family has grown alongside the ocean: my son charges into the waves without hesitation; my daughter's feet dipped into the Pacific before they ever touched solid ground.

Maris Pearl exists for their generation, and because I believe that what we wear can carry meaning. That a pearl — layered slowly, shaped by water and pressure and time — is the perfect vessel for a bigger story.

My dream is for Maris Pearl to become a beloved global pearl house, and for the foundation we're building to protect saltwater ecosystems across our planet. Every ocean. Every coast. Every sea.

With love and saltwater,
Stephanie

The Design

The oldest design traditions of island worlds share a common language across oceans: elemental forms, stripped of ornament, shaped by light and water and time. It is the aesthetic I grew up with, and it lives in everything we make at Maris Pearl.

As a GIA-certified pearl specialist, I select every pearl personally, always drawn to natural, baroque shapes and the glowing lustre that quickly became our signature. Every pearl is hand-selected, and every pearl is uniquely shaped by its environment: by temperature, by current, by depth, and by the skill of our partners during each harvest. We set them simply, so nothing competes with what the ocean already made.

The result is jewelry that feels ancient and contemporary, elegant and eternal all at once; at home beside the Pacific or the South China Sea, the Aegean or the Atlantic. Our pearls are designed to be worn close to the skin and kept for a lifetime.

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