We recognise it without needing to know the name: this profile is a portrait of classical art in which each of us can find themselves. Young, deeply loved in Rome and deified — his face can be found in countless sculptures, in museums around the world. Antinous, on this Lumen ring, takes on a new intimacy: the bordeaux wraps the relief and draws it closer, makes it more personal. The delicacy of the features, the gentleness of spirit that gives him his beauty — all of it is held within the density of this colour. The smooth enamel, the soft volumes of this model, the full weight of the bronze make it a jewel that lives on the hand, something that belongs to us.

Antinous is both a memory and a universal feeling: the recognition of oneself in form and substance. There is an Antinous in each of us — the special part, the qualities that make us unique. Wearing this ring, one senses this expression of two beauties — inner and outer. On the colour of this ground it becomes ever more gathered, ever more one's own.

Blue on bordeaux is an accord of two colours most prized in antiquity, rare — here, with this finish, it becomes at once classical and contemporary: an ancient mantle made strikingly modern by these clean lines. Black gives him still more intensity: the relief draws inward, a presence held entirely within its own dense curves. Pearl makes him shine — soft light resting on the intaglio, every detail in full clarity. Porphyry is a band of colour circling the finger in a single tone — cameo and ground merge into one, the colours and forms of Rome itself, like an architecture of volumes and lines you trace with your fingers, smoothed by time.