About Us
Golden Spirit makes art from the symbols people have used to mark what matters to them.
Some belong to a particular tradition - the cross, the Om, the Hamsa, the endless knot. Others belong to no one and to everyone. The tree, the circle, the lotus, the geometric patterns that turn up independently in cultures separated by oceans and centuries. We work with both, and we try to do each properly.
What We Make
Wall art, built in metal and finished with real 24K gold. On select pieces, 925 sterling silver provides a second tone.
The detail is worked into the metal rather than printed onto a surface. That distinction is the whole difference between an object with depth and a picture of one, and it is the slowest and most expensive part of what we do.
Why Gold
Because it does not change. Gold does not tarnish, corrode, or oxidise - that is the property that made every civilisation which found it treat it as the material of permanence, long before anyone agreed on a price.
A symbol that has survived three thousand years has earned a material that behaves the same way. That is the entire argument behind what we make, and we think it holds up.
How We Approach the Symbols
We are not interested in decoration that happens to reference something sacred. We are interested in the symbol itself, rendered carefully enough that someone who knows what it means can tell we knew too.
Where a symbol carries specific religious weight, we research its conventions before we design, and we follow them. Where a symbol is shared across traditions, we render it without forcing it into any single one.
Where We Are
Golden Spirit produces and ships from Israel, to customers worldwide.
What We Will Tell You Plainly
Our pieces are finished in gold, not cast from it. Nobody makes solid gold wall art - it would be unaffordable and unhangable - and gilding has been the technique since the Egyptians. We would rather say that outright than let an ambiguity do quiet work for us.
Hand-applied gold varies slightly from piece to piece. Silver elements darken over time and can be brought back with a silver cloth. Neither is a defect. Both are what happens when you use real materials.