Our Story

Every Eriness piece starts in a notebook. Erin Sachse draws first and asks questions later. Not from a reference image or a trend report, but from whatever is living in her head that week. The sketch comes first. The gemstones follow once she knows what the piece actually wants to be. This is not how most fine jewelry gets made, and honestly, it shows. In the best way.

Erin did not come up through the traditional industry. At 18, she was hand-wrapping jewelry and wearing it because she liked it, until a Fred Segal buyer stopped her and asked where it came from. Her eye has always been the only credential that mattered. It turns out Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift, Lupita Nyong'o, Charlize Theron, Laura Dern, and Miley Cyrus have a good eye, too. 

“For me, fine jewelry does not have to be so serious. There is beauty and power in playfulness. I draw inspiration from the California coast I was raised on and my summers outdoors on the lakes of northern Canada. Our Jewelry is intended to stand the test of time, to be treasured, passed on, cherished, but most importantly to be worn.”

— Erin Sachse Nathan, Founder & Designer

The collections that followed are a record of that eye getting sharper. Resist argued that fine jewelry could carry a political point of view and mean it. Ladybug was channeled more than designed, drawn during her mother's final days while an 80-mile-wide swarm of ladybugs flew over Los Angeles as she slept. Butterfly became the visual signature: ombré color, movement, the kind of piece that makes people stop you on the street. Form hand-drew every curve of a proprietary chain because she looked at what was available and knew she could do something better.

Erin thinks in color. Not as a finishing touch, but as the primary design language. The One of One collection makes that plain: rare stones held for two years, then designed through pregnancy and the loss of her home to fire. Optimistic and hard-won and completely unrepeatable. Behind every piece is a woman with a sketchbook, a point of view, and no interest in making jewelry that plays it safe.