ORRO Contemporary Jewellery

We started out in 1997 in Glasgow, Scotland, with the aim of promoting innovative designer jewellery. At the time it was hard to find any well designed modern jewellery outside art galleries, where jewellery was usually the support-act for 'serious-art' like painting or sculpture. We wanted to present jewellery as the 'headliner' - in a relaxed and inclusive setting - and so began the story of ORRO.

To start with we stocked work from recent graduates alongside our in-house designs and in the course of the first couple of years, began adding collections by emerging talents onto the scene as well as those by more recognised names. Our first major collaboration was with edgy London jeweller Jess James who had just launched the Prayer Ring.