Maramenos & Pateras revives Ribbons collection for 60th anniversary

Coiled gold has rarely looked as current as it does in Maramenos & Pateras’ revived Ribbons collection. The Greek house is returning to a motif first introduced in 1970, when textured, ribbon-like forms were cast as a study in movement and elegance. Now, as collectors and first-time buyers alike lean back toward substantial yellow gold with visible craft, the design reads less like nostalgia than a reminder that good symbolism never really goes out of style.

The collection’s inspiration reaches back to the ribbons worn by Olympic winners, a detail that gives the jewelry its charge. Antonis Pateras has tied the relaunch to the brand’s 60th anniversary, and that anniversary frame matters because Maramenos & Pateras is not simply rereleasing an archive favorite. It is reasserting one of its house signatures: fluid, coiled gold rendered with enough texture to feel hand-wrought, and enough structure to hold its own on the body as a statement piece. In a market crowded with oversized gold, the difference here is the language. These are not blunt sculptural forms for their own sake; they are emblematic objects, built around motion, victory and the idea of adornment as sign.

That balance between heritage and relevance has helped the revival draw enthusiastic attention in Greece and internationally ahead of its presentation at JCK Las Vegas, the North American jewelry trade show at the Venetian Expo. The timing is shrewd. Maramenos & Pateras is meeting the modern appetite for bold, artisanal gold with a design that already carries emotional meaning, rather than retrofitting a trend onto a generic shape. The house says its jewelry is hand-crafted in original contemporary designs, and that more than 30 collections have been created from Hellenic civilization and nature. Ribbons fits squarely inside that vocabulary.

Founded in 1969 by brothers Dimitris and Giorgos Maramenos and their cousin Nikos Pateras, the company has long translated Greek identity into wearable form, often through yellow gold and motifs rooted in classical reference. Its Athens showroom at 2 Parnassou Street remains a reminder that the brand’s center of gravity is still in Greece, even as its audience broadens. That continuity is part of the appeal. Maramenos & Pateras is not softening its heritage for younger buyers; it is sharpening it, letting a familiar symbol move forward without losing the accent of where it came from.