Hetairix
The Catalogue

Nine Lines.

Seven recurring, two capsule.

Each line has its own register, its own customer entry point, its own sample pieces. All sit inside the Wunderkammer. All sort by Bouba and Kiki.

Line 01

Loves.

Drawn from a two-hundred-song cycle across three albums — The Spark, The Strange Mile, The Wound. Each love-type becomes a piece. The line is the brand's emotional spine.

Sample pieces

  • The Eros cuff — Album 1: The Spark — brass with Tyrian-enameled inscription
  • The Situationship pendant — Album 1: The Spark — half-finished moonstone setting
  • The Codependent earrings — Album 3: The Wound — mismatched pair, intentionally inseparable
  • The Healing brooch — Album 3: The Wound — Seiji-iro enamel, slow-pour finish
Loves line illustration
Untranslatable Words line — the meraki wooden pendant with its art-deco dictionary card and organza bag, on black velvet
Line 02

Untranslatable Words.

Two hundred single-word concepts curated from over forty languages. Each piece is a laser-engraved wooden pendant — birch or walnut — paired with a printed dictionary card and presented in a soft organza bag. The line's purpose: give the wearer a private vocabulary the room hasn't heard yet.

Sample pieces

  • Koselig — Norwegian pendant — that warmth of being indoors while it rains
  • Meraki — Greek pendant — doing something with all your soul, love, and creativity
  • Dukkha — Pali pendant — the unsatisfactoriness woven into existence
  • Ikigai — Japanese pendant — one's reason for being; what makes life worth getting up for
  • Saudade, Sisu, Yūgen, Komorebi, Hakanai, Cwtch — and many more in development

Each piece arrives in an organza bag with its printed card. Cards are dictionary-style: language, word, etymology mark, definition.

Line 03

Komorebi.

A hundred words and invented terms for specific qualities of light. Komorebi (dappled sunlight through leaves). Vesper (soft evening glow). Bronze hour. Velvet shadow. The line names colorways and finishes more than discrete products.

Sample colorways & pieces

  • The Komorebi shawl — hand-dyed silk, dappled-leaf colorway
  • Bronze hour — signature colorway across leather goods and silks
  • Velvet shadow — signature colorway, kiki-register pieces
  • Cathedral light — Tyrian + Seiji + gold thread, one piece per year
Komorebi line
Impermanence line
Line 04

Impermanence.

Words for the transient and fleeting across many languages. Éphémère. Hakanai. Mono no aware. Fugaz. The brand's most philosophical line. Pieces tied to mortality, aging gracefully, the beauty of things that don't last.

Sample pieces

  • Hakanai — Japanese bracelet — fleeting and ephemeral
  • Mono no aware — brooch — enamel-on-brass, edition of 100
  • Caducus — Latin pin — that which falls
  • Anitya — Sanskrit ring — impermanent, in Buddhist usage

Numbered editions. Each piece carries its number on the card.

Line 05

Scheherazades.

Words for fog, mist, veils, and obscurity from many languages. Mjegull (Albanian). Bruma (Spanish). Caligo (Latin). Voile (French). The line covers actual textile veils, mantles, shawls, opera coats — pieces that conceal and reveal. The most architecturally dramatic line.

Sample pieces

  • The Voile cape — silk-and-cashmere, Velvet-shadow colorway
  • The Mjegull shawl — Albanian for fog; sheer cashmere
  • The Pelena wrap — Russian for veil/pall; sheer wool, ivory
  • The Caligo opera coat — Latin for fog/darkness; black-Tyrian wool
Scheherazades line
Fordite pendant collection on black velvet — real product samples from the Volta Feint line
Line 06 · Featured

Volta Feint.

Words for illusion, deception, and the turn. Maboroshi (phantom). Praestigia (sleight of hand). Volta (the poetry-turn). Every piece does something the customer doesn't notice until the second wearing.

Home of the Fordite series — paint that became stone. Layered automotive overspray from Detroit factory racks, prized off, cut, polished, set into rings and pendants. The first glance reads as agate. The second is when the customer sees it.

Sample pieces

  • Mirage cuff — brass with hidden hinge that reverses the inscription
  • Praestigia locket — reversible enamel
  • Tournant ring — band rotates; inscription faces in, then out
  • Fordite cabochon pendant — Detroit overspray, set in brass
  • Apate earring — two earrings that don't quite match
The Fordite Series

Paint that became stone.

Photographs of the inaugural Fordite cabochons. Each cut from a different layer of Detroit factory history — three decades of automotive overspray, hand-prized off the rails, sliced, polished, and set in fine silver wire-wrap. No two are the same; no two ever will be.

Fordite teardrop pendant — iridescent multi-color, silver wire-wrapped
Cabochon · Teardrop

The Iridescent.

Multi-color shimmer that depends on the angle. Cut from a 1970s Detroit panel line.

Fordite rainbow oval pendant — pride colorway, silver wire-wrapped
Cabochon · Oval

The Rainbow.

Six-banded stratification, exactly. Cut once a year; the rest of the year the layer is studied, not sold.

Fordite shield-cut pendant — pink, copper, and cream tones on twisted cord
Cabochon · Shield

The Copper Vein.

A run of pink-and-copper pulled from a single rail. The base is rough; the face is polished. The first glance reads as ore.

Fordite teal shard pendant — irregular cut showing teal and blue-purple bands
Cabochon · Shard

The Sea-Floor.

Irregular cut, retaining the natural break-edge. Teal and lapis tones suggest seawater that hasn't quite frozen.

Fordite retro oval pendant — red, green, blue, white striped
Cabochon · Oval

The Mid-Century.

Red, green, blue, white. The colors a 1965 station wagon would have worn. The layer dates to that exact production run.

Fordite tooth-shaped pendant — lavender and blue, silver tipped
Cabochon · Canine

The Reliquary.

Cut as a canine tooth. Lavender and blue-violet bands. The shape is the joke; the etymology of reliquary is the punchline.

All pieces shown are real first-edition prototypes, photographed unedited. Inventory limited. First release at the inaugural Cabinet of Funo.

Line 07

Bouba & Kiki.

Hand-tumbled stones engraved by the founder, filled with Rub 'n Buff Gold Leaf, $20–$30. Companion to her two-hundred-track album of the same name. Each stone carries a word that sounds dirty but isn't (bouba register) or sounds clean but isn't (kiki register). Definitions are Devil's-Dictionary style.

A Fordite capsule arrives at the inaugural Cabinet of Funo: fifty laser-engraved Fordite stones, $90–$150 each, the only stones in the line not hand-tumbled by the founder — because Detroit did the tumbling for her over thirty years.

Sample stones

  • Hetaira — bouba — the founding word; included free with every order over $200
  • Pulchritude — bouba — Latin for beauty
  • Booby — bouba — a seabird, family Sulidae
  • Quim — kiki — Chaucer's word
  • Merkin — kiki — a 1450 invention
Bouba and Kiki stones
Capsules

Two capsule lines.
Limited. Numbered. Never re-released.

Line 08 · Capsule

Funo.

The provocative inner sanctum. Pieces that don't return. Sometimes single-edition. Each drop is themed — What parents don't get; Saints and strumpets; The Latin of the bedroom. Sold only through the Cabinet of Funo pop-ups and a waitlist.

Drop concepts

  • Drop 01 — What parents don't get
  • Drop 02 — Saints and strumpets
  • Drop 03 — The Latin of the bedroom
  • Drop 04 — Devil's Dictionary cards, gilt-edged

Each drop runs once. No restock.

Line 09 · Capsule

Luchagaido.

A licensed-in annual capsule from the novel 1000 Perfect Sighs. Luchagaido — a portmanteau of Ludo (play) + Cha (chaos) + Gai (Gaia) — anchors a recurring annual collection drawn from the novel's universe.

Annual contents

  • One signature piece per year, named for a scene
  • Three to five companion pieces
  • Collector's card set, one card per chapter referenced

Numbered. Never re-released.

She sells the words other languages have for the feelings English forgot to name.

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