Nora Kogan spent her childhood and formative years living on the Black Sea and on Italian and Australian coasts. She then spent ten years traveling around Europe, Japan, and Israel, after which she decided to focus on jewelry design. Back in Australia, she studied Goldsmithing at Northern Melbourne Institute of Technology. Nora now lives in Brooklyn, where she and a group of local artisans bring her designs to life from recycled metals and conflict-free stones.