The thinking behind every stone
STONESTONE TEAM

The thinking behind every stone

A stone has no opinion of its own. Someone has to decide what it is worth saying — which stone, cut which way, and set to make a point.

A small team, built around judgment

At Stonestone, each piece comes from three disciplines working in sequence: an eye trained to read a stone before it is cut, a design process built on structure rather than trend, and a team that can explain why a piece looks the way it does. We are a small team. That means every piece passes through people who actually care about getting it right.

Meet the team

Behind each Stonestone piece is a quiet order of decisions — from stone selection to structure, from craftsmanship to presentation.
Winston Xue
Arbiter

Winston Xue

rom a young age, Winston had an instinct for the market and an eye for quality most people take years to develop. That instinct became a discipline of his own — fancy color diamonds, studied alone, from sourcing the stone to reading its certificate line by line.

He can tell, before a stone is cut, exactly what will give it its best expression. Every piece carrying the Stonestone name passes through his eye first, his sign-off last — which means what
reaches you has already survived a standard most jewelry never has to meet.

He’s not the designer. He’s the arbiter of the brand’s standard.
Alma Ling
Designer

Alma Ling

Alma trained as a jewelry designer inside an industrial design program, then went further at Politecnico di Milano — a foundation built on industrial history and ergonomics, not just aesthetics.

She brings structure to a piece the way her training taught her — where the weight sits, how it moves with the body, what makes a setting hold up over years instead of just photographing well. But what she notices first is rarely the structure. It’s the warmth a piece is supposed to carry, how someone will actually feel wearing it — and the structure is just how she makes that feeling last.

She’s not just a designer. She’s the one who makes sure a piece still works the day after you fall in love with it — not just the day you bought it.
Nicole Deng
Director

Nicole Deng

Nicole studied Silversmithing and Jewelry at the Glasgow School of Art — and came out of it curious about everything, never settled on one type of jewelry or one kind of maker.

That curiosity kept going. She’s worked alongside makers across very different traditions, and stayed close enough to the industry to notice things most people walk past. What she does
with that is bring it together — narrative, quality, and aesthetic, into one piece,
presented the way it deserves to be seen.

Not the stone. The thinking behind it.

That is not a tagline. It is the order we work in.