“I love to express myself! When I create my jewelry,
I don’t work with pen and paper or a computer,
I work with my heart.
My feelings flow through my veins into my hands
And they shape the metals and caress the stones
Then – voila’! A new piece is born."

From drawing the design on precious metal sheet to piercing and sawing, filing, smoothing the metal for a velvet touch, yet forging it with hard hammers and shaping it with the hands, sometimes, like a sculpture, LUPA creates contemporary jewelry with style everlasting. All of the work is designed and created in Los Angeles, CA, near the beach.

LUPA Jewelry is handcrafted exclusively of precious metals and may include gems, and pearls. Stones, along with few findings and Italian sterling silver chains, are carefully hand selected to assure quality and the pleasure of wearing a one of a kind ornament. Our metal is sustainable and it comes from New Mexico, a small manufacturer in Los Angeles, and our studio in Los Angeles, where scrap is recycled.

In the past two years LUPA Jewelry has reached the retail market through local Arts and Crafts Festivals. This has enabled a personal contact with the clientele and has allowed a good understanding of the market plus it has defined and tailored our major jewelry collections.

Award winner in Jewelry Design and Fabrication, Lucia Pasquinelli (LUPA) creates unique jewelry with distinctive eternal European style. Born and raised in Rome, Italy, Lucia has always been surrounded by art, history, and tradition. Her jewelry reflects her passion for culture, nature, and innovation.

All of her pieces are handcrafted exclusively of precious metals and may include gems, and pearls. She applies various techniques when fabricating her jewelry and loves to play with the metals, altering their normal boundaries into unexpected manifestations.

Her training includes bench work with a professional jeweler in Rome as well as with master craftsmen in California. Lucia now lives in Los Angeles and is proudly associated with the Metal Art Society of Southern California, the Culver City Rocks & Minerals Club, and various Professional Jewelry Making associations.

Her company name, LUPA Jewelry, and her logo, the wolf, represent the millennia of history, culture, and tradition of her origins. The wolf has been the symbol of Rome since its creation, more than 2000 years ago, and LUPA, besides being Lucia's initials, is the Italian word for wolf.