A record of pieces that deserve to last.
Most of what we own is designed to be replaced. A small proportion isn’t — a ring, a watch, a coat, a book, a chair. Pieces made to last, and intended to be kept.
These pieces almost always have a story: who made them, who gave them, who wore them, where they were mended when they broke. But the story rarely survives the piece. It lives in memory, and memory is fragile.
What STORI is
STORI is a shared logbook for the pieces that deserve to last.
When a piece arrives at a restorer — a jeweller, a leather workshop, a bookbinder — it is given a unique STORI ID. From that moment, every action at the bench becomes a verified chapter: the intake photograph, the quote, the work itself, the date it was sent home.
The restorer uses STORI to run their studio. The brand, if there is one, uses STORI to see every piece of theirs in motion. The owner keeps the logbook — a record of what was done and by whom, that travels with the piece for the rest of its life.
Why we’re building it
We watched craftspeople repair beautiful things using a stack of spreadsheets, a WhatsApp group, and a paper ledger. We watched heritage brands promise lifetime care and then lose track of every repair within a week of it leaving their shop. We watched owners bring in pieces their grandmother had owned, with no record of anything that had ever been done to them.
The work is extraordinary. The infrastructure around it is not.
STORI is the infrastructure. It’s built quietly, on purpose. It doesn’t try to be a social network for objects. It doesn’t write AI stories about your ring. It’s a record — verified, dated, kept — of what actually happened.
Who we are
STORI started in a workshop in Bethnal Green, watching a customer hand over a signet ring her grandfather had worn through the war. The piece had been resized, re-stoned and re-engraved across forty years, and not a single repair was on paper. The provenance lived in three people’s memories.
We’re a small team in London — a goldsmith, an engineer, a designer — building the record that piece deserved.
STORI exists because objects outlive the people who care for them, and the care itself is worth keeping. Not as a marketing story. As a record.
Contact
If you’re a heritage brand, an independent restorer, or you’ve just found a STORI code on a piece you own — write to us.