Conservation through Creativity
Rather than listing statistics or jumping straight into product collections, this opening text establishes why a PM is deeply invested in conservation.
Focus on Artistry as a Tangible Force for Good: Explain how the Mavros family transforms profound reverence for Africa’s wildlife, oceans, and people into enduring, hand-sculpted talismans of silver and gold.
Highlight Purpose-Driven Design & Direct Impact: Emphasize that each of these five dedicated collections is born from a specific conservation story.
The Pangolin Collection
Creative Inspiration: Highlight Patrick Jnr’s sculptural homage to Africa’s most enigmatic, gentle mammal—capturing its intricate overlapping scales and quiet vulnerability in hand-finished silver and gold.
Purposeful Impact: State clearly that 10% of proceeds supports the Tikki Hywood Foundation in rescuing, rehabilitating, and protecting this endangered species.
Forged by the Ocean Bangle
Creative Inspiration: Tell the story of pieces forged during lockdown in Mauritius, shaped using volcanic basalt and inspired by the raw, elemental beauty of the island's surrounding seas.
Purposeful Impact: State clearly that 10% of proceeds supports the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation in safeguarding Mauritius’s fragile marine and island ecosystems.
The Vakadzi Collection
Creative Inspiration: Celebrate the enduring strength, grace, and resilience of the women in the Mavros family’s lives and communities across Zimbabwe—translating feminine spirit into timeless silver and gold forms.
Purposeful Impact: Highlight the house’s ongoing commitment to empowering and uplifting women and community initiatives in Zimbabwe.
The Tusk Collection
Creative Inspiration: Frame the collection as a living tribute to Craig, one of Amboseli’s last great Super Tuskers—capturing his distinctive ear and sweeping tusks in precious metal.
Purposeful Impact: State clearly that 10% of profits supports Tusk Trust and the Big Life Foundation in protecting vital elephant habitats and corridors for future generations.
The Kolisi Cuff
Creative Inspiration: Spotlight the collaboration with South African rugby captain Siya Kolisi, drawing inspiration from his foundation's emblem to express unity, resilience, and the spirit of Ubuntu in sterling silver.
Purposeful Impact: State clearly that 10% of every sale supports The Kolisi Foundation in driving youth mentorship, education, and community upliftment.
Our Core Pillars
Family
Working together side by side for decades, the Mavros family have passed down more than craftsmanship: they've passed down a way of interpreting, creating and living. Each generation adds its own special touch to the story, while time-honoured skills, shared values and a deep love of creativity and exploration are woven into a living tapestry.
Conservation
The Mavros family’s love of Africa’s wildlife inspires a deeper responsibility to protect the creatures and ecosystems that shape their story. Through craftsmanship, conservation partnerships and purposeful collections, the family helps safeguard these remarkable natural worlds, so their magnificence can be cherished and passed on for generations.
Craftsmanship
Every Mavros piece is shaped by hand, from the first sketch to the final polish. Ancient lost-wax casting is guided by the instinct of skilled artisans, with every ridge, texture and detail subjected to an exacting eye. Nothing is hurried and nothing is compromised; each creation is refined with patience and precision until it reaches the highest expression of the craft.
The Pangolin Collection
The Story Intro (2 short paragraphs):
Focus: Patrick Jnr’s fascination with this gentle, ancient creature—the world’s most trafficked mammal—and how sculpting its quiet dignity in silver and gold turns wearable art into an urgent voice for its survival.
Impact: Reiterate clearly that 10% of every piece sold goes directly to the Tikki Hywood Foundation in Zimbabwe to fund frontline pangolin rescue, rehabilitation, and release.
Visual: 6 images showing either Patrick Jnr’s original wax carving / sketches or a close-up macro shot of the hand-chiseled overlapping scales in sterling silver and 18ct gold.
Caption Line: A single italicized sentence noting the ancient lost-wax casting process and the painstaking hours required to articulate each individual protective scale by hand..
Pangolin Stacking Collection
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Pangolin Queen Cuffs
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Pangolin Drop Collection
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Pangolin Scale Collection
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Pangolin Haka Collection
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The Vakadzi Collection
The Story Intro (2 short paragraphs):
Origin & Meaning: Explain that Vakadzi—the Shona word for "women"—was born as a tribute to the extraordinary strength, grace, and quiet resilience of the women in the Mavros family’s lives and communities across Zimbabwe.
Alliance & Impact: Highlight how the collection honors women as the cornerstones of family, heritage, and conservation—with 10% of proceeds supporting community upliftment and female empowerment initiatives in Zimbabwe.
Visual: 6 images showing original sketches, hands shaping fluid curves in jeweller’s wax, and close-up macro shots of the hand-polished organic silhouettes in sterling silver and 18ct gold.
Caption Line: A single italicized sentence noting how each fluid, organic curve is sculpted by hand through lost-wax casting to balance bold sculptural presence with effortless everyday grace.
Vakadzi graduate Collection
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Vakadzi Multiple Collection
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Vakadzi Drop & Dangle Earring Collection
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Forged by the Ocean Bangle
The Story Intro (2 short paragraphs):
Origin & Urgency: Tell the story of how the bangle was conceived during lockdown in Mauritius, in the wake of the devastating coastal oil spill—channeling the Mavros family’s deep connection to their island home and the raw, elemental beauty of its surrounding waters into a symbol of resilience.
Alliance & Impact: State clearly that 10% of proceeds from every piece goes directly to the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, funding vital coastal habitat restoration and the protection of Mauritius’s rare endemic species.
Visual: 6 images showing either Forbes' original sketches or a close-up macro shot of the hand-chiseled arch of the bengles.
Caption Line: One italicized sentence explaining how each piece is hand-worked and textured directly against island volcanic basalt, imprinting the ancient geological memory of Mauritius into the silver.
Forged by the Ocean Bangles
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The Tusk Collection
The Story Intro (2 short paragraphs):
Origin & Inspiration: Frame the collection as a living tribute to Craig, one of Amboseli’s last great Super Tuskers—capturing the quiet majesty of his distinctive folded ear and sweeping, ground-grazing tusks in silver and gold.
Alliance & Impact: State clearly that 10% of profits from every piece goes directly to Tusk Trust and the Big Life Foundation to fund anti-poaching rangers and protect vital elephant habitats across the Amboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro ecosystem.
Visual: 6 images showing field sketches of Amboseli’s Super Tuskers, master artisans carving the distinctive folded ear and sweeping tusks in jeweller’s wax, and close-up macro shots of the weathered hide textures in sterling silver and 18ct gold.
Caption Line: A single italicized sentence highlighting the lost-wax casting process and the intricate hand-texturing used to capture the weathered hide and monumental grace of Africa’s great tuskers.
The Tusk Collection
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The Kolisi Cuff
The Story Intro (2 short paragraphs):
Origin & Meaning: Tell the story of the collaboration with South African rugby captain Siya Kolisi—drawing inspiration directly from the emblem of his foundation to express unity, resilience, and the spirit of Ubuntu ("humanity to others") in solid sterling silver.
Alliance & Impact: State clearly that 10% of every sale goes directly to The Kolisi Foundation, funding vital grassroots programmes in youth mentorship, education, food security, and gender-based violence prevention across South Africa.
Visual: 6 images showing collaborative design studies with Siya Kolisi, artisans hand-forging and shaping the weighty sterling silver cuff at the bench, and close-up macro shots of the precision-engraved foundation emblem and brushed silver finish.
Caption Line: A single italicized sentence celebrating the hand-forged weight of solid sterling silver and the precision engraving of the Kolisi Foundation emblem—crafted as an enduring symbol of unity and resilience.