A Dialogue on Time

AdHoram began as a study of time — how journeys across places can stretch or slow its passage, how pauses reveal its depth, and how artists and writers have long sought to give form to what leaves only traces.

From these reflections emerges a dialogue between lived experience and creative expression, shaped by philosophy, literature, and art. Rather than illustrating these works, the design seeks the gesture within them — distilling movement, tension, and rhythm into contemporary form.

Formed slowly by hand in Italy, each object becomes a presence within the moments that shape us.

Origins

AdHoram's founder grew up in Italy, where classical studies shaped her earliest way of seeing the world. At the Liceo Classico and later in Lettere e Filosofia at the University of Turin, she immersed herself in history, philosophy, art, and literature — disciplines that nurtured her creativity and her instinct for pause and reflection.

Her career later carried her far from home, across countries and cultures, opening her life to new perspectives, encounters, and ways of seeing, while gradually drawing her away from the disciplines that had first formed her gaze. Yet the spaces she sought continued to appear unexpectedly — in the quiet of an artisan’s workshop, before an architectural detail shaped by time, in galleries and places of thought, in bookshops holding rare editions, or in the silent rhythms of nature. In such moments, time seemed to widen, and reflection could deepen.

After many years, she returned to Italy carrying friendships, memories, and the traces of a life lived elsewhere. It was time to reconnect — with place, with thought, with rhythm, and a dialogue on time began.

From that dialogue, AdHoram was born.

Images on this page from top to bottom:

The ceiling of a waiting room in Florence, Italy.

The Evergreen Laurel Brooch from Time for Metamorphosis Collection.

Somewhere, pausing to admire nature making shapes.

The Crossing Bracelet from the Time for Crossing Collection.

One of the Vero’s favourite bookshops in Rome, on Campo de' Fiori.