Born to a British mother who nurtured curiosity and creativity, and a Jewish New Yorker who has a habit of saving every piece of familial history, Lily has always been fascinated with the past. 

Her love of history grew alongside her love of art, which started in childhood with a fascination for Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors. These two passions have led to a life spent learning the history of craft practices and material culture.

In her late teens, she began to delve into the world of antique jewelry, where she learned about the custom of mourning jewelry. The power of which became all the more apparent after her mother's death in 2015, at which point a local jeweler was commissioned to make a pendant from a lock of her hair, just as they would have done in centuries past.

After her mother’s death and graduation from SVA, she began working for two antique jewelry dealers in NYC. There she grew her knowledge of jewelry tenfold, and learned the general tools of the trade. At the same time she also apprenticed under a local armorsmith, learning how to shape, cut, polish, pattern, chisel, rivet, and weld steel. Through this, she found her love for metal as a medium.

Leaving the jewelry world briefly, she went on to pursue her master's degree in medieval art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, with a focus on miniature objects. There she learned how to identify old objects, how to read them, how to question them, how to understand them. Skills which are vital to the buying and selling of antique jewelry.

Now she aims to curate and present her own jewel box for consideration, always looking for something special to share.