Where simplicity meets meaning
Lili’s Jewelry is about timeless pieces, thoughtful design, and details that feel personal — made to stay with you.
Our story
We are a family-run artistic practice shaped by making, presence, and shared responsibility.
What we do grows from time spent together - from conversation, trust, and a belief that objects gain meaning through care rather than speed. This work does not exist in isolation, but in constant dialogue: between materials, people, and the space that holds them.
At the heart of the practice is Matija -the maker.
He works with his hands, instincts, and materials that carry memory. From early on, he was drawn to contrast: between nature and structure, softness and precision, the ancient and the contemporary. Wood marked the beginning. Resin followed. Metal joined in. Each material opened a new question rather than closing one.
His work explores what happens when seemingly incompatible elements meet. Olive wood, fossil oak, silver, brass, epoxy resin - combined not to imitate perfection, but to search for balance. Working without molds whenever possible, each piece is shaped directly and intuitively, becoming unrepeatable by nature.
A background in engineering informs his way of thinking, while architectural training shaped his understanding of form, tension, and rhythm. A formative moment came through studying silversmithing under master Lazar Rok Lumezi - an experience that extended beyond technique and reshaped his relationship with jewelry, material, and the act of making itself.
He is particularly drawn to mechanisms - closures, joints, connections - where function becomes meaning and structure becomes visible, intentional, and expressive. For him, jewelry is never mere decoration. It is a wearable sculpture: a fragment of thought, emotion, or silence made tangible. Something that lives with the body, changing through light, movement, and time.
This practice is accompanied and grounded by Karla.
She runs the shop and gallery, cares for every encounter around the work, and holds the connective space between studio and audience. As the first point of contact, she guides visitors through the pieces with sensitivity and clarity, shaping how the work is approached, understood, and lived with.
Within both the family and the practice, she is a steady presence - a companion in process, a listening ear, and a grounding force. Sometimes a model, sometimes a quiet correction, often the one who brings things back to earth when they begin to drift. Through her, the work remains open, relational, and anchored in everyday life.
Together, we run a gallery in the center of Zagreb - a space where contemporary artistic jewelry is not only shown and worn, but experienced. A place for dialogue, material presence, and slow attention.
Matija’s work regularly appears in group exhibitions across Europe, including Milan, Rome, and Venice, where it enters a wider conversation within the contemporary jewelry field. These encounters - with spaces, audiences, and other practices - continue to shape both the work and our shared direction.
This is a place where material and emotion meet.
Where nothing exists “just” as jewelry.
Where form carries meaning and meaning remains deliberately open.
