FOUNDER STORY

Why I'm Letting Go of My CollectionI'm Diana, and for twenty years, I was a travel writer. I wrote for National Geographic, Condé Nast Traveler, a few others. Forty-seven countries, mostly alone, mostly the places no one tells you to go.Wherever I went, I bought jewelry. Not the airport stuff — the little stall in Fes where an old silversmith taught me how to spot real Berber turquoise. A pearl diver's widow in Hatajima who sold me her husband's last harvest. A market in Jaipur where I spent six hours haggling over one ring, then drank tea with the seller's whole family afterward.Each piece has a place. A person. A story.I am turning fifty-six this year. My knees are done with cobblestones. I bought a small cottage in Vermont, and I move there next month.The cottage has one closet.I have spent two months trying to decide which pieces to keep. I cannot keep them all. So I am letting most of them go — at prices that almost feel disrespectful to the women who made them, but I would rather they be worn than sit in a storage unit somewhere.If you take one home, please wear it. That is the only thing I ask.— Diana