Hidden Treasures of the Deep: A World Ocean Day Selection

In celebration of World Ocean Day (June 8th), we find ourselves drawn to one of Earth’s most staggering truths: we have explored and charted less than five percent of our planet’s oceans, despite the ocean covering 70% of the Earth’s surface. It’s fair to say that this is the ocean’s world, and we might just be guests. The remaining 95% is a vast, mysterious realm—deeper than our highest mountains, more alien than distant planets, and more captivating than any story we could imagine. The ocean exists beyond our dominion, a wild, untamed garden that we cannot tend, magnificent in its refusal to be controlled or fully understood.

Still, for centuries, this mystery has called to the human spirit. The same curiosity that drove ancient mariners across uncharted seas, long before the age of empire, continues to stir something deep within us. From the earliest seafarers navigating by the stars to the great explorers who sought new lands, humanity has always been drawn to the ocean’s vast unknowns. We are drawn to the sea not despite its mysteries, but because of them. Every voyage, every expedition into those vast waters, is an act of faith in the possibility of discovery.

What lies beneath those shifting surfaces? What treasures have been shaped by time, pressure, and the patient artistry of water? We invite you to experience that same sense of wonder through our Ocean Day selection—pieces that embody the ocean’s most compelling qualities. Designs that might recall essence of oceanic discovery, featuring components evocative of driftwood, sea glass, sand and netting, conjuring treasures washed ashore, the smell of salt in the air, and the calls of seagulls in the distance. A conceptual selection that we hope fills you with the reverence and wonder the ocean is due.

Artifacts of Wonder

Each piece in this selection possesses what we might call an ‘artifact quality’—that rare presence of objects that seem to have emerged from deep time itself, carrying within them the accumulated weight of countless untold stories. Like relics discovered in a shipwreck or treasures cast up by generous tides, these works evoke images of voyages taken, of origins, of pieces passing from one hand to another. There’s something profound in how these pieces invite us to become explorers ourselves. In the absence of a known provenance, we become the archaeologists of wonder, free to imagine the journeys that brought them to us.

The Spirit of Discovery

Throughout history, it was the call of the ocean that opened our world. Every great expedition began with someone willing to trust the horizon—brave souls who set sail with nothing but wind, stars, and an unshakeable belief that something extraordinary awaited beyond the edge of the map. This adventurous spirit lives on in the objects that speak to us most deeply. Like the explorers who carried precious cargo across treacherous seas, these pieces seem to hold stories of their own journeys, each bearing the accumulated wisdom of time and the elements that shaped them. They transform spaces not through obvious maritime symbolism, but through something far more subtle and powerful—the evocation of mystery itself.

Celebrating the Unknown

On this World Ocean Day, we celebrate not just the beauty of our seas in a material sense, through elements like smooth driftwood, glass, and knotted rope, but the enduring mystery. The ocean offers us the invaluable gift of the unknown. While so much of our land-bound world has been mapped, measured, and catalogued, the ocean continues to remind us that wonder still exists. This conceptual selection honors that spirit of discovery. These are pieces for those who understand that the most valuable treasures are often those that reveal themselves slowly, rewarding contemplation and carrying within them the same timeless allure as artifacts pulled from the deep.

Seek what resonates with you. Like all true treasures, these pieces await those who recognize their worth—those who understand that beauty, like the ocean itself, is most powerful when it retains its mystery.