Gold has always been more than a metal. It’s memory, sunlight, and sentiment you can hold. But lately, it’s also been something else: expensive.
In the past year alone, the global price of gold has soared — a truth that even the most established jewelry houses can’t ignore. As much as we wish beauty could exist outside the rules of economics, it doesn’t. Our hearts want to keep every price untouched; our hands (and spreadsheets) remind us we can’t.
At Stanza, we’ve always promised honesty — in craft, in storytelling, and in value. So this is us being transparent: we want you to know what goes into your jewelry, what makes it meaningful, and why its price sometimes changes.
Glint Necklace | Angelic Bracelet | Seven Stars Ring
Where Your Investment Goes
Every necklace, ring, or pair of earrings begins with three quiet pillars: Design, Craftsmanship, and Care.
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Product Development – From sketch to prototype, every curve, clasp, and gemstone placement takes hours of iteration. We test proportions, finishes, and structures to make sure a piece feels like poetry on skin.
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Craftsmanship – Our artisans have decades of experience. Their work — engraving, polishing, stone setting, casting — isn’t mass-produced; it’s intentional, mostly done by hand, and that time matters. (More on Craftsmanship)
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Operations & Fair Wages – A jewelry brand isn’t just gold and gems; it’s people. From our craftspeople to our small team managing logistics, photography, and customer support, we believe every person deserves to be paid fairly and treated with respect. (More on fair wages)
Our Pricing Philosophy
In traditional jewelry retail, the final price often includes multiple layers of markup — sometimes five to ten times the production cost. Every middleman adds a cut before the jewelry even reaches you.
We chose a different route.
At Stanza, we sell directly to you, keeping markups minimal — a fraction of what legacy luxury brands apply. Most of what you pay goes directly into the making — the craft, not the overhead.
To put it plainly: a 14K gold ring that might retail for $1,200 elsewhere could cost around $500–$600 at Stanza.
We’ve traded excess profit for integrity, and loud marketing for quiet craftsmanship.
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The Hard Decisions, So You Don’t Have To
Running a small, independent jewelry brand is full of choices — many of them difficult. Balancing fair wages with rising gold prices, maintaining small-batch production while keeping prices accessible, growing with integrity instead of shortcuts.
We make the hard decisions so you don’t have to. Your only decision should be the easy one: whether you love the design, whether it feels like you.
And judging by the fact that our return rate is only a fraction of the industry average, it seems that the care we put in — the time, the fairness, the storytelling — is finding its way to the right hands.
Why Prices May Change
As gold continues to rise (and it is, fast), we face a choice:
Cut corners — or stay true to what makes our pieces meaningful.
We choose meaning.We will continue using recycled solid gold, ethically sourced gemstones, and skilled craftsmanship — even if that means a modest increase in price.
Our promise has never been to make jewelry cheap. It’s to make it worth it. Because beauty shouldn’t cost an arm — but it should honor the hands that made it.
Fortune's Turn Necklace | Simply Herringbone Chain Necklace
The Poetic Truth of Gold
Robert Frost once wrote, “Nothing gold can stay.” But maybe, in our own way, we’re trying to challenge that.
We want to make gold that does stay — not because it defies time, but because it gathers it. It collects your touch, your stories, your seasons. Every mark, every polish, every moment adds to its worth.
Gold, for us, isn’t about permanence. It’s about presence. And that, we believe, is priceless.
