SIGNATURE HEART — the Story of the Form
In short.
- The fifth form of the brand and a family of the CODEX world: SIGNATURE HEART — half smooth, half angular, two different hearts joined into one.
- The form runs through four pieces: a light heart bent as if from wire, the Solid Heart (heavy, fully filled), the Heart Lock (a clasp for a beaded chain), and a tiny stud — the smallest object in the brand.
- Today it lives around the neck and on the earlobe: a heart pendant on a beaded chain closed with the Heart Lock, and a small stud worn alone or in an ear stack — the Signature Heart Stud Earring.
- Material is handmade silver 925, no stones, no inserts; technique is a wax model, a silicone mold, silver 925, then hand finishing.
- The surface is Living Silver — silver 925 without rhodium plating; it darkens and patinas, and patina is a property, not a defect.
Updated August 29, 2026
The fifth form of the brand. SIGNATURE HEART — STRUGA's own heart.
The heart as a visual object is popular the world over. STRUGA looked for its own — a particular, recognizable shape of heart. The search led to SIGNATURE HEART: half smooth, half angular, joining two completely different hearts into one.
SIGNATURE HEART belongs to CODEX. A world, in STRUGA's vocabulary, is a language of the brand — not a product category, not a section of a catalogue. The language of CODEX is the everyday architectural form, the DNA of the brand: clear lines and silver for every day, the form by which STRUGA is recognized.
CODEX is not an observation of the world but a workshop of forms. Here STRUGA brings out a form that did not exist before and carries it across different types of pieces — and that is how recognition appears: a style and a form that read as STRUGA at a glance. CODEX is minimalism: simple lines, simple but recognizable forms. Contemporary experimental minimalism. No stones, no inserts — only pure uncoated silver that oxidizes on contact with the world. SIGNATURE HEART speaks this language in full, from its heaviest object to its smallest.
How the Form Was Born
One silhouette across four objects
The family chronology is exact, and the brand canon keeps it word for word.
Its evolution ran like this: a light heart, as if bent from wire; then the Solid Heart — heavy, fully filled; then the Heart Lock — a classic clasp for a beaded chain, reimagined as SIGNATURE HEART; and a tiny stud — the smallest object in the brand.
Each step is the same form carried into a different type of piece. The light heart set the silhouette — half smooth, half angular; in the catalogue it is the Wire Heart Necklace. The Solid Heart answered it with the opposite character: heavy, fully filled — and weight, for STRUGA, is part of an object's character, not a warning. Today it hangs on a chain as the Solid Heart Small Necklace. The Heart Lock took the form into construction: a classic clasp for a beaded chain that remains, unmistakably, the heart of STRUGA — the clasp here is not a service detail but the form of the family itself. It closes the Small Beads with Heart Choker and lives on its own as the Heart Lock Ring. And the tiny stud brought the silhouette down to its minimum: the smallest object in the brand.
The chronology describes the passage of a form, not a ranking of pieces. The light outline, the filled volume, the clasp and the stud answer different constructive tasks. What stays shared is the recognizable join of the smooth and the angular halves.
What the Family Holds Today
Separate family canon from live catalogue
Today SIGNATURE HEART lives around the neck and on the earlobe. A pendant is a chain with a single hanging object — here that object is the heart. The silver chain is the carrier: STRUGA uses beaded chains closed with the Heart Lock. And the studs: a small earring sitting close against the lobe.
The material is the same as everywhere in CODEX: handmade silver 925, no stones, no inserts. The technique is described simply: a wax model → a silicone mold → silver 925 → hand finishing.
As of 2026, SIGNATURE HEART is the fifth form of the brand and a family of the CODEX world, carried across four pieces — from a light heart bent as if from wire and the Solid Heart to the Heart Lock and the smallest stud in the brand. All of it is handmade silver 925 without rhodium plating — Living Silver — with no stones and no inserts.
The article names the canonical family; it does not fix availability. A pendant or a stud remains a live catalogue fact: the exact configuration, weight, price and lead time are read on the product page at the moment of decision.
How the Form Lives on the Body
Scale changes, identity remains
Around the neck, silver turns into architecture: the heart on a chain reads as line and volume, not as decoration. On the ear the form works at the scale of a point — the stud can be worn alone or inside an ear stack, a composition of several piercings, cuffs and forms in dialogue.
- Neck: read the heart with chain, Heart Lock, drop and body-scale proportion.
- Ear: read the stud close to the lobe, alone or as one point inside an ear stack.
- Shared identity: compare the half-smooth, half-angular silhouette rather than expecting the same mass or function.
The same family therefore changes scale and use without becoming a generic heart. A live product page still decides which exact object carries that form now.
A pendant and a stud carry one silhouette, but their function, mass and the way they meet the body differ.
Object and artifact
Read form together with time
STRUGA calls its things objects and artifacts, not "jewelry" in the usual sense. An object is a thing with weight, form and surface, worn on the body. An artifact is the same piece taken in time: a thing that stays with a person for years, often for life, and can pass to the next generation. SIGNATURE HEART is built to be exactly that.
Object names the present construction: material, weight, form, surface and the way it meets the body. Artifact adds the time dimension — the same piece kept, worn and potentially passed on. Neither term is a matter of pathos: in STRUGA's voice they are working, exact words.
Living Silver as a changing surface
Patina records wear without changing canon
The surface of the family is Living Silver — STRUGA's own term for its silver 925 left without rhodium plating. Silver is alive, it darkens and patinas. A piece arrives light and darkens with time; the surface keeps changing with the one who wears it: friction brightens the raised edges, the recesses darken, and the natural patina becomes a map of how the object is worn. Two identical pieces on two different people will look different in time, because body chemistry is personal.
Patina is a property, not a defect. The darkening of silver is neither a problem nor wear — it is part of the object's identity. STRUGA does not merely allow patina; STRUGA builds it in.
SIGNATURE HEART is STRUGA's own heart: two completely different hearts joined into one recognizable form, carried from a line bent as if from wire to the smallest object in the brand — view the SIGNATURE HEART family.
To see how SIGNATURE HEART runs across the whole catalogue, the SIGNATURE HEART atlas lays out every form the family takes.
Frequently asked questions
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Ask a question →01Is SIGNATURE HEART a standard heart pendant?+–
No. SIGNATURE HEART is not a generic heart symbol but STRUGA's own form — half smooth, half angular, two completely different hearts joined into one recognizable shape. It is a family of the CODEX world, not a copy of a common heart motif.
02Is Living Silver the same as oxidized silver?+–
No. Living Silver is STRUGA's term for its silver 925 left without rhodium plating: the metal is alive, so it darkens and patinas on contact with the body and the world. It describes a property of the uncoated surface, not a deliberate darkening applied to the piece.
03Is the patina on SIGNATURE HEART a defect?+–
No. Patina is a property, not a defect. The darkening of silver is neither a problem nor wear — it is part of the object's identity. Friction brightens the raised edges while the recesses darken, so the patina becomes a map of how the piece is worn.
04Is the Heart Lock just a service clasp?+–
No. The Heart Lock is a classic clasp for a beaded chain reimagined as SIGNATURE HEART. Here the clasp is not a service detail but the form of the family itself — the heart of STRUGA carried into construction.
Continue from the journal to a current STRUGA object: Signature Heart Stud Earring.
