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ORBISJEWELERS & SILVERSMITHS IN ATHENS8 stores · curated ORBIS register
Cycladic Shop sells jewellery inspired by the Museum of Cycladic Art's collection and complements it with ceramics and museum-related gifts. Folli Follie adds fashion jewellery and accessories from a brand established in Athens in 1982 to this selection. ILJMuseum Shop combines jewellery with decorative objects and art publications, also accepting custom orders for pieces in production.
Athens / Greece
Reached through the Stathatos Mansion entrance while the museum's main doorway is under construction, the Cycladic Shop sells jewelry, ceramics, and gift items inspired by the Museum of Cycladic Art's collection, from figurine-shaped earrings to reproduction ceramic bowls. Every purchase supports the Athens museum's educational and scientific programs.
Best for Jewelry, ceramics and gifts inspired by the Museum of Cycladic Art collection
Athens, Greece
Athens-founded jewelry, watch and accessories brand established in 1982; after a major 2018 accounting-fraud scandal and its founders' 2020 conviction, the label continues trading in Greece through a restructured entity, FF OPSCO.
Best for Fashion jewellery
Folli Follie was established in Athens in 1982, starting as a jewelry manufacturer before launching a watch line in 1994 and opening its first overseas store in Japan in 1995. The company grew into an international accessories retailer before a hedge fund's 2018 investigation found that Folli Follie had overstated its store count and misrepresented its finances; Greek prosecutors found that chairman Dimitris Koutsolioutsos and his son and then-CEO George Koutsolioutsos had forged bank statements between 2009 and early 2018. Greek courts convicted the pair, handing down sentences of 10 to 17 years in 2020, with investigators estimating total losses to investors and creditors at roughly 413 million euros. The Folli Follie brand itself continued trading afterward: its current retail site identifies the operating company as 'FF OPSCO' and lists four active Athens stores alongside an online shop.
Athens / Greece
On the ground floor of the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum near the Acropolis, the ILJMuseum Shop sells fine and artistic jewelry, decorative objects, and souvenirs alongside scholarly and general-interest art publications. The shop also takes custom orders for jewelry and objects in production, plus postcards and posters available in person or by mail order.
Best for Jewelry, fine-art, souvenirs, books
Plaka / near the Acropolis, Athens
Founded by goldsmith Ilias Lalaounis near the Acropolis, this Greek house draws its collections from ancient and Byzantine motifs. Its archaeological-style jewelry earned an international following.
Best for Archaeological-style Greek fine jewelry
Koukaki / Online
LoFi Concept is both an independent record shop and working ArtLab in Athens’ Koukaki neighborhood. The lab makes jewelry, pots, lamps and paintings from scratch, while the record section ranges across jazz, Afro-Latin, reggae, hip-hop, ambient, techno and other exploratory music.
Best for Vinyl records, handmade art objects and ArtLab goods
Athens City Centre
Jewelry studio (est. around 2019) with a showroom at Praxitelous 33 in Athens and a second base in Naousa, Paros. Makes sculpted necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings set with stones including quartz, citrine, kyanite and aquamarine.
Best for Handcrafted sculptural jewelry in silver and gold.
Neso Studio is a jewelry atelier founded around 2019, with its main showroom on the fourth floor of Praxitelous 33 in central Athens and a second base in Naousa, on the island of Paros. Each piece is made using the traditional technique of wax sculpting -- carving or modeling a design in wax before it is cast -- and every finished piece is cast in sterling silver (925) and hand-finished with a signature 18-karat gold plating. The studio incorporates precious and semi-precious gemstones, including quartz, citrine, kyanite and aquamarine, set into sculptural necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings. According to the studio's own account of its process, a single piece takes at least five days to complete from wax model to finished object, reflecting a small-batch, hand-executed production process rather than mass manufacturing. The dual Athens/Paros footprint mirrors a common pattern among contemporary Greek jewelry ateliers, which often split time between a year-round city studio and a base in the Cyclades tied to the summer season and to island-based material and craft traditions.
Athens / Greece / Online
SHOP AT EMST is the official online store of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, selling exhibition-linked prints, jewellery, and fashion pieces such as the 3Quarters x EMST collaboration. Current offerings include hand fans and prints tied to the museum's Earth to Earth and Voices exhibitions, with every purchase supporting the museum.
Best for Museum store, art prints, fashion
Panepistimiou, Stadiou, central Athens
Founded in 1895, this Greek gold house is known for museum-inspired ancient-Greek goldwork and haute joaillerie. Its craft draws directly on antiquity.
Best for Ancient-Greek-inspired fine gold jewelry
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