Bertha
Anderson
Founder & Creative Director
Jewellery made to tell your story.
“Good design begins with close observation — of line, light, texture and how a piece feels to wear. That is why every piece here begins with a conversation rather than a catalogue.”
Finding meaning
in the smallest details.
A commission starts with listening: the occasion, the references, the way a person actually lives with what they wear. From that conversation come drawings, stone options and, eventually, a single piece.
Bertha is drawn to line and proportion — to how a setting sits on the hand, how a chain falls, how much a piece should weigh. Travel, reading and the ordinary details of a day all feed into that eye.
She works within Arte Oro’s atelier at 38 Jalan Pemimpin — a workshop rather than a retail floor. Commissions are discussed, drawn and made under one roof, by craftsmen with over forty years at the bench.
Made in Singapore,
by hand.
Every commission is developed in-house: the first conversation, the drawings, the selection of stones and the final setting. Nothing is outsourced, and nothing leaves the bench until it feels inevitable on the hand.
See how a piece is made →Three habits of the work.
Look at the hand, the wardrobe, the way jewellery is already worn — before proposing anything.
Sketches are cheap and honest. A design is only agreed once the proportion feels inevitable.
Cut, colour and clarity decide more than the drawing does. The setting follows the stone.
The pieces, lived in.
Discuss a piece
with Bertha.
Bring an occasion, an inherited stone or simply an idea. The first conversation is about understanding the piece — the design comes after.