Hey, I'm Lee
When I moved to Cyprus, I wanted to hold on to the friends I’d left behind while making new ones here. That’s really how SIMATA started: I took my love of making jewelry and turned it into a way to carry love and memories close.
I began with Morse code – a language of short and long signals that stands for letters and numbers. It felt right, because in Greek, simata (σήματα) means signs. Each piece I made hid a message inside it – a word only the right person would ever read. People loved that they could say something out loud without saying it out loud, and keep a memory close all day.
But a sign was never only Morse. That’s the meaning that was hiding inside the name all along – and it’s where SIMATA is slowly growing: a small collection of pieces that each carry a hidden message, in more than one way.
The jewelry is still made by hand, one piece at a time, on my table in Cyprus.
Welcome to SIMATA, where every piece says something only the two of you understand.