Founders — Dmitry & Ekaterina Strugovshchikov

One language in silver.

I am Dmitry Strugovshchikov. My wife Ekaterina Strugovshchikova and I founded STRUGA together in 2018, in Bali. We are both designers and we run the brand together.

My background is in engineering — structural work in oil and gas, then product design. That is where the brand language comes from: weight, plane, joint, proportion. Not ornament. Ekaterina brings the other half — her background is in art and design, and she is the reason the work does not end up purely technical.

- Dmitry Strugovshchikov and Ekaterina Strugovshchikova co-founded STRUGA in 2018 in Bali; both are designers and run the brand together.

- Dmitry's background is structural engineering in oil and gas, then product design; Ekaterina's is art and design.

- STRUGA works in 925 sterling silver, carbon fibre where it makes structural sense, and raw untreated stones — aquamarines, tourmalines, heliodors.

- Silver is left without plating and develops a patina that records how a piece is worn — STRUGA calls this Living Silver.

- The catalogue is organised by five worlds and eleven design families; the core of the catalogue is cast and finished in the Bali workshop.

How STRUGA started

The first piece I made was a ring for myself. Heavy oxidised silver, no theory behind it — just an object I wanted to wear and could not find anywhere. Everything in the market was too dainty, too decorative, or expensive without reason. I built the version of what I was looking for and wore it for a year to understand whether it held. It held. That became the template for how we work.

Why Bali

Bali is a deliberate choice. The island has one of the oldest living traditions of working silver by hand — techniques passed down in family workshops for generations. We wanted to design and build in the same place, not from a distance. The workshop on the island is where the core of the catalogue is cast and finished.

What we make

STRUGA works in 925 sterling silver. Carbon fibre where it makes structural sense. Raw, untreated stones — aquamarines, tourmalines, heliodors — set the way they came out of the ground. Nothing is plated to fake a different finish.

Silver in these pieces is allowed to age and develop a patina that records how a piece is worn. We call that Living Silver. The oxidation is not a defect — it is the design.

The catalogue is organised by five worlds and eleven design families. Pieces are added when the form is right, not because a season requires it.

— Dmitry & Ekaterina Strugovshchikov
Founders and designers, STRUGA