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A house that takes its time.
Six pairs of hands, a workshop on Saint-Paul East, and the conviction that jewelry isn't an accessory — it's something you pass down.
Our story
From sketch to your hand.
Maison Aurélia was born in 2018, in a basement on Saint-Paul East in Montréal. Léa Aurélia Tremblay, trained at the Montréal School of Jewelry and then at Le Arti Orafe Academy in Florence, wanted to bring back what twenty years of industrialization had pushed to the margins: slowness, gesture, responsibility.
Seven years later, the workshop has grown without changing its philosophy. Six pairs of hands, two precious machines (a rolling mill and a laser welder), a shared foundry in Mile-End, and a single gold supplier — Stuller, RJC-certified, 100% recycled.
No dormant stock. No disposable seasonal collections. Every piece you see on this site was designed to be worn for thirty years, polished every twelve months, and one day passed down.
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Ethical 18K gold
100% recycled, certified by the Responsible Jewellery Council. No gold extracted for Maison Aurélia. Our supplier publishes a traceability report each year — available on request.
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Lab-grown stones
Diamonds, emeralds, rubies: all our crystals are lab-grown. Identical chemical composition, hardness and brilliance to mined stones — without the human or environmental cost. IGI certificates provided.
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Limited series
No piece is produced in more than 50 copies. Every jewel is numbered, engraved, and ships with a certificate of authenticity signed by the jeweler who made it.
The process
Twenty-two steps, six hands.
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The sketch
It all starts on paper. An idea, sometimes a commission, sometimes an obsession. The sketch lives, is revisited, validated as a team before moving to 3D CAD.
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Lost wax
The 3D model is printed in high-resolution wax, hand-retouched, then injected into a plaster mold. At 720 °C, the wax vanishes — and molten gold takes its place.
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Stone setting
Every stone is set by hand under binoculars. An operation that takes four to eight hours for a piece set with five diamonds.
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The finish
Polishing in three passes (paper, brush, felt), laser engraving of the serial number, quality control, signed case. Twenty-two steps. No shortcuts.
Bespoke
A piece that belongs to you.
Recasting a grandmother's wedding band, designing an engagement ring from a sketch, transforming an heirloom sleeping in a drawer: this is the most intimate service we offer.
Allow six to ten weeks, two or three workshop meetings, and a budget starting at $1,800. We can work from your own gold if you wish: it will be melted, recycled and redrawn into the piece you'll wear.
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