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Materials

14k yellow gold, Custom Portrait Cut Quartz

Jewelry Care

Jewelry is meant to be worn, but a little care goes a long way! Here are some tips to keep your pieces looking their best.

Protect Your Jewelry

Precious metals and stones are not indestructible. Chemical and physical stress can damage them over time.

Know When to Take It Off

We recommend removing your jewelry before showering, swimming, exercising, or applying lotion, perfume, or hairspray.

Don't Sleep in Your Jewelry

Avoid sleeping in jewelry, especially delicate pieces like earrings and fine chains, which can stretch, bend, or tangle overnight.

Store Pieces Separately

When storing your jewelry, lay pieces flat and separately, and clasp necklaces to prevent knotting.

Give Delicate Materials Extra Care

Extra caution is needed for delicate materials like pearls, opals, emeralds, turquoise, and enamel. These materials are more porous or fragile and should never come into contact with chemicals, abrasives, or solvents.

For cleaning your gems, check out our tips and tricks to clean your jewelry at home.

Shipping & Returns

Shipping

Orders are shipped via UPS or USPS, depending on the destination. Please allow 4–7 business days for ground shipping within the continental United States.

Returns & Exchanges

Adornment & Theory accepts exchanges or returns for store credit within 15 days of an in-store purchase or within 15 days of delivery for online orders. Store credit is valid for one year.

Returned items must be unworn, undamaged, properly packaged, boxed, and insured. Adornment & Theory reserves the right to refuse items that show signs of wear, damage, or improper care.

Customized, bespoke, and made-to-order pieces are final sale and cannot be returned, exchanged, or refunded.

Paradise Lost Necklace

$7,250.00

MEMENTO MORI

“Maybe death isn’t a Darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us-as soft as feathers”- Mary Oliver

Drawing from Gothic Romanticism and the historic tradition of mourning jewelry, Viviana Langhoff introduces twenty contemporary objects of love and devotion.

About the Memento Mori Collection

Memento mori, Latin for “remember you must die,” is an ancient reminder of the fleeting nature of life and, perhaps more importantly, the preciousness of the time and love we are given.

Memento Mori: Love after Death–Objects of Devotion is a collection of seventeen pieces created to honor, hold, and celebrate those we have loved and lost. I have always found mourning jewelry deeply beautiful, not simply because of its symbolism, but because of its ability to create connection. These intimate objects become vessels for memory, allowing love to take on a physical form and remain close to the body.

Crafted in 14k yellow gold, crystal quartz, black enamel, garnets, diamonds, and pearls, the collection draws from the visual language of remembrance: lilies of the valley, wheat, serpents, sacred hearts, and inscriptions of devotion such as amor eternal and en memoriam.

Rooted in Gothic Romanticism and reimagined for modern, everyday wear, Memento Mori lives between darkness and light, grief and beauty, mortality and enduring love.

Romantic, soulful, and a little dangerous, these pieces are not simply about death. They are about what remains.

Love. Memory. Connection.
Viviana Langhoff

Looking to Make This Your Own?

Viviana Langhoff Collection pieces can be created in different metals and customized with the stones of your choosing. Note that pricing adjusts based on customizations.

Interested in customizing this piece? Please email custom@adornmentandtheory.com or visit our Bespoke page to begin the process.