A house, a tray, a chair.
Meralda is not a counter. It is a room. A jewellery house in the older sense — with a master craftsman down the hall, a master gemologist on call, and a goldsmith who will come in on a Sunday if the wedding is on a Monday. Opened on Mavoor Road, Kozhikode in 2019, it has grown into a house of premium jewellery across six addresses — and kept the chair the same.
A jeweller is only as good as the morning of the wedding.
When A.K. Nishad opened Meralda in Kozhikode in 2019, it was on this idea: that a jewellery house should be measured not by what enters the showcase, but by what leaves it on the right hand on the right day. So our hosts know each client’s muhurtam. The craftsman lives three streets away. The vault is opened at four in the morning, if it must be. The bride is fitted by candle if the power has gone. The chair waits.
Ten houses live under our roof — Roohani, BeLove, Navah, Ananta, Raere, Saga, Estelle, Hues, Fiori, and the Collector’s Edit. Each was named for a woman the house was making something for. Each carries her name now.
Read the atelier services →The piece you choose chooses you back.
Six addresses, one chair.
The house keeps two boutiques in Kerala, two appointment rooms in Karnataka and Kannur, and two boutiques in the Emirates. The room may change. The chair stays the same.
All six addresses →A chronology, kept in the journal.
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012019The room opens on Mavoor Road, Kozhikode.A.K. Nishad — thirty years in the trade — opens Meralda with a single idea: jewellery that carries a woman’s individuality, drawn from heritage, open to the world. One craftsman, one tray, one chair.
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022020The first houses are drawn.Roohani is opened for the polki bride. Estelle, for the women who wore gold every day of the week. Ananta, for the south-temple heritage we grew up with.
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032021A doorway on MG Road, Kochi — and a national nod.The Kochi boutique opens. The same year, Meralda is named runner-up for India’s Coolest Store — South, Boutique Format — by Indian Jeweller magazine.
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042022Kannur — the third address.A third boutique opens in Kannur. BeLove, the diamond line, is drawn for the women who buy their own; the Collector’s Edit is opened for commissions.
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052023Mangalore — across the border into Karnataka.The fourth boutique opens in Mangaluru. The twice-a-year trunk show becomes a tradition — forty seats, by invitation, with the master craftsman in residence.
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062025 – todayDubai, and a global feature.Two boutiques open across the Emirates; Solitaire (GJEPC) features the house for “spreading Indian aesthetics globally.” Six addresses now — each with the same tray, the same chair, the same tea.
22-karat antique gold · 18k everyday · BIS-hallmarked, every piece.
We work primarily in 22k for heritage commissions (Ananta, Navah, Saga) and 18k for the everyday lines (Estelle, BeLove, Hues). Every gram is hallmarked by the Bureau of Indian Standards before it leaves the atelier. The certificate sits in the box.
IGI · GIA certified, with a written sourcing note from the house.
Every diamond and coloured stone arrives with a certificate from one of two global laboratories. Where the certificate cannot answer the deeper question — was this stone sourced cleanly — the house adds its own written note from the master gemologist.
Hand-set, hand-finished, hand-polished — fifty pairs of hands.
From the wax model to the final rhodium-rinse, every commission passes through the atelier’s fifty hands. There is no factory floor. There is no third-party assembly. There is no part of a Meralda piece that has not been turned in a craftsman’s palm.
Lifetime exchange, annual servicing, the resize on the house.
Any Meralda piece may be exchanged at full value against a new commission, in any year. Every piece is welcomed back annually for cleaning, polishing, and re-rhodium. The first resize, on the house. The second, also.
A jewellery house ought to feel like a room,
not a counter.
Come into the house.
A room is reserved. A tea is poured. A tray is brought. Book a viewing at any of the six addresses.