Adnohia: I Heard the Ocean Sing

Made for those of who know the poignant struggle of living strongly, Adnohia’s jewelry is designed with a focus on forms and texture that is both new and classic. To wear her creations is to accept the past, to celebrate the strength within oneself and to keep moving forward to make beautiful memories in the future.

I Heard the Ocean Sing is a collection inspired and informed by Ai’s other career as a celebrated sushi chef. Her @ChefAi.LA instagram has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Pasadena Weekly, on multiple food blogs and the popular YouTube channel, First We Feast. By combining a specific familiarity with marine anatomy and a master’s degree in architecture from SCI-Arc, Ai has created an elegant line of emotional jewelry that showcases her unique perspective. 

The collection is inspired by living things in nature, but instead of replicating their forms, Ai reduces them to their defining elements and reconstructs them as new concepts of wearable sculpture. No mere ornaments, these fine pieces speak directly to the wearer’s sense of nostalgia.

Ai Honda Kennedy was born in Japan and earned her Masters of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles as part of a program that included multiple Pritzker Prize winning instructors and guest lecturers. Following work in the architecture and automotive fields she founded her atelier jeweling practice, Adnohia, and has worked as an independent art consultant in the USA and Japan. Pieces from her (in)Somnia line can be found in the collections of Moby, Lars Ulrich, Kat Von D, Lindsey & Gerard Way, the House of Sabah, and the National Gallery of Denmark, as well as private collections all over the United States, Europe and Japan.