Institutional Pieces
Designed and produced
under one roof.
Awards, ceremonial pieces, pins and corporate jewellery for film festivals, municipalities, cultural institutions and brands. One studio, one chain of decisions, sketch to delivered piece.
Who we work with
Four kinds of
institutional brief.
Festivals
Film festivals, literature awards, music festivals and cultural events that need a piece distinct from the standard trophy supplier — designed with narrative, produced with jewellery standards.
Municipalities
Town councils, tourism boards and regional bodies commissioning awards, commemorative pieces or ceremonial jewellery with civic meaning. We work with the brief, the heritage and the deadline.
Brands
Companies commissioning pins, recognition pieces or corporate jewellery — anniversary editions, internal awards, distinctive gifts. From a single piece in gold to a 300-unit run in plated brass.
Designers
Designers and agencies with their own concept who need a production partner. We respect the design, engineer it for production, and deliver the finished piece. Authorship stays with you.
Deliverables
Concept to
delivered piece.
A standard institutional commission closes with —
- Conceptual design with narrative. When the piece needs to say something — a place, a value, a story — design starts from the meaning, not from the shape.
- Production engineering. CAD, prototyping, mould strategy and unit-cost analysis built into the design from the first block-out.
- Material strategy. Gold, silver, brass or bronze, with optional electroplated finishes. Material chosen for the brief — symbolic weight for a single award, budget discipline for a 300-unit run, never the other way round.
- In-house production. Casting, setting and hand finishing in the same studio that designed the piece. One quality standard, one accountable interlocutor.
- Confidentiality on committee-sensitive projects. When the commission is bound by approval cycles, embargo dates or internal review, we work to those rules without friction.
- Production partnership for external designs. When the design comes from your own team or agency, we engineer and produce. Authorship remains with the original designer.
Why it matters
Most institutional pieces
pass through three hands.
The standard route for an institutional piece runs through three suppliers: a designer, a CAD studio and a workshop. Each optimises their own step. The piece compromises somewhere — proportion, finish, unit cost, or the time it takes to get from approval to delivery.
When the brief matters — when the piece carries a festival’s name, a town’s heritage, or a client’s recognition — the chain of decisions should be one chain, not three.
Work
Two pieces,
two roles.
Case 01
Almorratxa pendant
The piece
A minimal sterling silver pendant with 18K gold-plated finish, abstracting the silhouette of the almorratxa — a four-spouted glass vessel central to Lloret de Mar’s Festa Major. 28 × 16 × 4.5 mm. 2.75 g. Satin finish. Produced in three material tiers: sterling silver, 9K gold, 18K gold.
The brief
Commissioned by a private client with a single instruction: a pendant inspired by the almorratxa of Lloret’s traditional plaza dance — a Moorish-origin perfume vessel that, in local legend, was broken in defiance during a medieval courtship, and is now ceremonially shattered each year by four young women in the town’s patron saint festivities. The brief was narrative, not technical. Everything else had to be engineered from scratch.
The challenge
The almorratxa is a complex volumetric object — four spouts, a swollen body, a tapered base. Translating it into a wearable piece meant deciding what to preserve and what to let go. The chosen path: a hybrid approach combining a 2D silhouette with a rounded-profile wire that holds volume without weight. The bail had to integrate into the silhouette as a continuous flow — not added on — so the pendant would hang in balance without breaking the minimal line. Several iterations and prototypes before the form settled.
The outcome
The piece was later adopted by Lloret de Mar’s town council as the official gift for municipal employees marking 25 years of service. Over 100 units produced to date across the three material versions. The design lives on as an on-demand piece — a private commission that found its institutional use through the strength of its interpretation.
Credits
Conceptual design, CAD, prototyping and production by Studiojoia.
Case 02
Amargura Cultura lapel pin
The piece
A solid 18K gold lapel pin in cursive script lettering for Amargura Cultura, a cultural association. Mirror finish, 47 × 14 mm, 1.4 mm thick, secured by a double-pin fixing for optimal stability.
The brief
Amargura Cultura provided their existing brand lettering as the starting point. The task: translate a digital cursive logotype into a wearable solid-gold pin — preserving the typographic identity while making it producible, durable and balanced on a lapel.
The challenge
A digital logotype is not a piece of jewellery. The connected cursive needed to be re-engineered for casting: minimum metal thickness throughout to avoid breakage in the mould, structural connections strong enough to hold the script as a single piece, and careful editing of details that would not survive at that scale. The fixing system had to be invisible from the front and stable in use.
The outcome
A clean transfer from digital identity to wearable object: the association’s cursive logotype re-engineered as a solid 18K gold pin that holds together as a single cast piece, reads correctly at lapel scale, and sits stable in wear thanks to the double-pin fixing. A brand mark preserved — now in metal.
Credits
Lettering provided by Amargura Cultura. Typographic adaptation for jewellery production by Studiojoia Pro. Production by Studiojoia Pro.
Investment
Quoted by
project, not by piece.
A single award in gold, a 50-unit ceremonial run and a 300-unit brand pin commission are three very different briefs. Each quote reflects scope — design hours, material strategy, mould cost, unit production and finishing.
Send the brief — we reply within two working days with a structured estimate: design hours, unit-cost range by material, mould investment if applicable, and timeline. For volume work, we provide a fuller estimate that covers the full production run.
Start a project
Bring the brief.
We’ll make the piece.
An award with a story. A pin run with a deadline. A ceremonial piece with civic weight. A corporate commission that needs to feel like jewellery, not merchandise. Two working days for a structured reply.