The jeweler celebrated 35 years of career and is dreaming about opening a store abroad, perhaps this year. What Maria João Bahia most likes to do, as soon as she arrives at the store on Avenida da Liberdade, in Lisbon, which has her name engraved on the windows, is to...

“I was exactly your age,” said jeweler Maria João Bahia, speaking of the date she started her own business. “Although I started the jewelery course in 1981, it was in 1985 that I started working alone.” Today with a consolidated career, the jeweler did not always intend to dedicate herself...

Summertime by Maria João Bahia is more than a collection, it is a personal selection of the Portuguese jeweler that gives color and shape to the pieces of the homonymous brand. With a strong influence of light in the creative process, the jewels in the new summer line reflect the...

Passionate about the atelier, where she tries to go every day, the designer reveals that in the next four years she will dedicate herself to the internationalization of the brand. Without ever failing to create. She celebrates 32 years of career, a few more decades of life, and she is...

Source: Fluxury (March, 2021)

Source: TimeOut (January, 2021)

“Jewelery is the art that draws feelings”, and who says it is Maria João Bahia herself, who in each creation sees a challenge to always overcome, collection after collection. Almost always asymmetrical, bold, colorful and very traditional with regard to the artisanal production process (this is the case of the...

The new jewelry collection “Will You”, by Maria João Bahia The jewelry collection entitled “Will You”, by Maria João Bahia, is inspired by the big question “Do you want to marry me?”, Where the only possible answer should be a huge “Yes!”. Details about the new collection “Will You” is...

Source: Porto Canal (May, 2020)

Jeweler, who conceived the SIC trophy, offered jewelery to Jane Fonda and made a shrine for Benedict XVI. She was 20 years old when she gave up law university. “I would not be a lawyer. But I would accept international law for travel, to do things abroad.” She went to...

Discover the new collection of the Portuguese designer. With over 30 years of career, Maria João Bahia continues with the same passion for creating jewelry. So much so that it is sometimes difficult to separate from them: “There are pieces that for some reason I get emotionally attached to. Sometimes,...

A necklace, a thread, two religious objects, a ring, a trophy, a key ring and a set of buttons for blazers are the pieces that make up the “Alma Benfica” collection. Signed by Maria João Bahia, this jewelry collection is dedicated to the SL Benfica Tetra Championship. “Alma Benfica” presents...