Four To Try: The New Melbourne Jewellery Stores That Are a Cut Above

Jewellery is best when it’s thoughtful and meaningful. Whether we’re talking about engagement rings or beaded necklaces, introducing new jewellery pieces into your collection is often a personal process.

Purchasing jewellery online pales in comparison to buying in person. In-store, you can expect a bespoke shopping experience, one where you can pick up, try on and play with pieces. This past month, several new jewellery spaces have opened in Melbourne. Here are the new jewellery stores worth a visit.

Linden Cook, Fitzroy

After a whopping 12 years in business, Melbourne jewellery label Linden Cook has opened its first permanent physical space. Founder Linden Cook, alongside her eldest daughter Georgie Amad, creates handmade, made-to-order pieces in Melbourne. The label has become known for its delicate, organic forms and fingerprint jewellery. Its new Fitzroy home, designed by Annabel Kerr, is intimate and moody, and fuses natural wood furnishings with elevated, contemporary furniture.

Finer Rings, South Yarra

South Yarra frequenters would be familiar with Finer Rings’ original Jam Factory store that opened back in 2018. The Melbourne jewellery label has just relocated across the road, so those who want to peruse its affordable, everyday pieces can do so without having to venture far from its first outpost. Finer Rings creates its jewellery at its five Australian stores, as well as in its Balaclava studio. Its new Chapel Street home is quintessentially Finer Rings: minimalist, light-filled and lush.

KDJ House, Armadale

Katherine Denton Jewellery has opened its first bricks-and-mortar store in Armadale. The elevated fine jewellery label’s showroom houses its refined collection of dainty pieces and will be home to private consultation appointments. “I didn’t want a typical retail space. I envisioned a space that feels like an extension of my home, a place where clients can connect with the jewellery in a personal, intimate way,” founder Katherine Denton says.

Newend, Collingwood

Melbourne jewellery label Newend has found a new home in Collingwood Yards. Newend’s Melbourne-made, androgynous jewellery is playful and current, fitting in naturally with its surroundings. Architectural studio Heliotope designed the store based on Newend’s insignia of the ouroboros – a serpent consuming its own tail – which translated into the physical space as the central circular table that grounds the store and Newend’s utilitarian pieces.