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Born and raised in Porto, Marta McCue was an artist long before she was a jeweler — a child with flowers in her hair and a hat too grand for her years, so like her great-aunt, Carmen Miranda, that the resemblance became the family's favorite joke. Her gifts were art and language; her instinct for beauty was inherited rather than taught, the same artistic blood that runs now through her own children. A childhood in ballet — and an invitation to the École de Danse de Paris (although declined) — gave her France as a second home and the discipline every jeweler needs: the patience to make the difficult look effortless.

The fascination with the stone came later, in New York. Working off Park Avenue, she discovered the Diamond District and fell entirely — learning the four C's the way she had once learned French, quickly and with love. Although South Florida became the forever shore: the water, the boats, the nearness of Europe, the unhurried drive up A1A to Palm Beach, inspiration keeps two addresses abroad — Paris and the Côte d'Azur — and her designs still tend to arrive there, over coffee outdoors, somewhere near the water.

Marta McCue does not chase trends. The work is delicate, deliberate, quietly grand — old-money rather than loud — made for women who lead their own lives and want their jewelry to outlast everything else they own. Pearfinity® gives the infinity motif its meaning back; the Club Collection returns tennis to the tennis bracelet. Each piece is designed to be singular, an heirloom first: an American house with an unmistakable European flare.