About Metal Noir

Metal Noir is an independent architectural fine jewelry house founded in Los Angeles in 2007 by Runal Shah. The work begins with structure: clean lines, proportion, negative space and the geometry of the city translated into solid 18K gold, natural diamonds and gemstones.

An Architectural Language

Shah began Metal Noir after searching for jewelry he wanted to wear and not finding it. Rather than decorate familiar forms, he approached jewelry as an object to be constructed. Architecture, industrial design, furniture, automotive form and the city grid became a vocabulary for pieces that are precise from every angle.

The house’s signature design language grew from the city grid seen from above. Repetition and intersecting geometry turn that aerial structure into rings, cuffs, necklaces and earrings designed for recognition without a conventional logo.

From the Diamond Trade to Los Angeles Manufacturing

Fine jewelry was part of Shah’s life before Metal Noir. His father entered the global diamond trade in the late 1970s and moved into jewelry manufacturing in Los Angeles in 1987. Shah later apprenticed alongside him, learning the tolerances, stone setting, finishing and construction that shape how a piece is made—not only how it looks.

Constructed, Not Decorated

Metal Noir pieces are developed through individual waxes, in-house casting and hand finishing in Los Angeles. The standard is simple: the object must work from the front, side, back and interior. Edge, radius, weight and proportion are treated as design decisions. Explore the house’s craftsmanship and making process.

That approach extends from the architectural ring collection and bracelets to Eroded Architecture, where disciplined geometry is interrupted by carved, crystalline surfaces and diamonds.

The Architect in Fine Jewelry

Metal Noir is built for people who notice. The language is quiet, exact and specific: solid 18K gold, natural diamonds and gemstones, engineered repetition, controlled negative space and forms intended to feel considered rather than ornamental.

The result is jewelry that reads as architecture in miniature—objects designed to live on the body while remaining complete from every angle. For one-of-one work, explore Bespoke Jewelry.