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What CODEX Is

CODEX is the first of STRUGA's five worlds and its DNA: clear lines and everyday silver, the form by which the brand is known.

The language of the world

The "925" stamped on STRUGA silver is not a percentage. It is a weight. The standard came from an English coin: a pound of silver was divided into 240 pennies, and that is where pound sterling comes from. The figure on a ring is, in effect, the name of an empire's currency. For CODEX no fact lands closer to home: a world whose subject is the standard, the measure and the readable form begins with a mark that was itself born as a unit of account.

CODEX is a language of the brand, not a product category and not a section of the catalogue. STRUGA has five such languages; CODEX is the first and the load-bearing one. The canon describes it in its own words.

An everyday architectural form — the brand's DNA. CODEX is clear lines and everyday silver: the STRUGA form, the one by which the brand is known.

If this world has a climate, it is cold clarity: straight lines, a grey morning, nothing in excess. A CODEX object behaves like a record — even, readable, with no ornament laid over it. Not an observation of the world, but order brought into it. Here STRUGA speaks the language of the drawing: geometry and precision.

Where CODEX comes from

CODEX is not a display case and not a mood. It is a workshop. The canon sets out exactly what the world is at work on.

CODEX is not an observation of the world but a workshop for making forms. Here STRUGA brings into being a form that did not exist before and carries it across different types of pieces — from a chain link to a pendant, from a carabiner to an earring.

That is where the recognition comes from. One form runs through a link, a clasp, a bail, a pendant, an earring — and in every piece it reads as a single hand. This is the brand's central experiment: not to multiply motifs, but to carry one form across different types of things until it becomes a language. You look at a CODEX piece and see STRUGA before you read the tag.

STRUGA describes itself as a brand of objects of experimental minimalism. These are not "jewelry" in the usual sense, and not an accessory to an outfit — they are objects with weight, form, surface and an inner logic, worn on the body. CODEX is the world where that logic sounds every day: handcrafted silver pieces that put architecture in the place of ornament.

Which families live in CODEX

The world gathers forms, not things. Five families live in CODEX — more than in any other STRUGA world:

  • SIGNATURE ASYMMETRIC — the brand's first form: sharp edges and recesses carried over from CNC-cut sheet.
  • BLADE — a CNC aesthetic in silver, grown out of a chain link.
  • SIGNATURE HEART — STRUGA's own heart: half smooth, half angular.
  • THORN — a thorn with sharp angles, at the meeting of CNC and 3D-modelling.
  • BRUTALISM — architecture in silver: the right angle, the open plane, the heaviest rings in the brand.

The list is closed — fixed by the brand on 18 May 2026. Each of the five forms speaks its own dialect, but all of them are about the clean line and the recognizable silhouette. This, as the canon puts it, is the architectural language STRUGA speaks every day.

Silver without stones

CODEX keeps a narrow, disciplined vocabulary of material. The canon closes it in a single line.

No stones or insets — only pure unplated silver that oxidizes through contact with the world around it.

This is sterling silver 925 without rhodium plating — what STRUGA calls Living Silver. Most silver jewelry is plated with rhodium, a thin layer that holds the shine and blocks darkening; STRUGA leaves the rhodium off by choice. So a CODEX piece arrives bright and darkens over time: the edges the hand touches lighten with friction, the recesses sink toward graphite, and the relief of the form reads sharper. Here the patina is a property, not a defect.

In a world with no stones, no amulets and no promises, the form does all the work. CODEX stands not on material as value but on geometry and surface — on how the object catches light and how it changes year by year.

Its place in the system of five worlds

STRUGA has five worlds: CODEX, RITUAL, LAB, DARK UNION, ISLAND ARTIFACTS. They are languages of the brand, and the names of the worlds are never translated — they are brand entities. Three of the five — CODEX, RITUAL, LAB — run across the range: each gathers different families of form into itself. The other two are built differently.

Among them CODEX is the point of entry. The canon answers a direct question with it: where to start with STRUGA.

CODEX is the answer to the brief about an everyday form, a baseline object, "where to start with STRUGA."

Where RITUAL holds personal symbolic weight, LAB the experiment and the provocation, DARK UNION the union, ISLAND ARTIFACTS island demand — CODEX holds the everyday. It is the base the other four stand on. To understand STRUGA you begin here, and from here the form spreads out into the other worlds.

Frequently asked

What is CODEX at STRUGA? CODEX is the first of the brand's five worlds and its DNA — an everyday architectural form. It is a workshop where STRUGA brings into being a form that did not exist before and carries it across different pieces: from a chain link to a pendant, from a carabiner to an earring. A world is a language of the brand, not a product category.

What does CODEX jewelry look like? Clear lines, a recognizable silhouette, contemporary experimental minimalism. No stones or insets — only pure uncoated 925 silver (Living Silver) that oxidizes over time and darkens along its own geometry. These are handcrafted silver pieces where architecture takes the place of ornament.

How does CODEX differ from STRUGA's other worlds? CODEX is about everyday wear and a recognizable form, and it gathers the most families — five: SIGNATURE ASYMMETRIC, BLADE, SIGNATURE HEART, THORN, BRUTALISM. RITUAL holds personal symbolic weight, LAB is experiment and provocation, DARK UNION is the union, ISLAND ARTIFACTS answers island demand. CODEX is the world you start with.