Cindy Liu, founder of Cinque, came from backgrounds in architecture and metalsmithing, holding a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Architecture. Her work moves between building-scale projects and intimate material explorations, with a particular interest in sustainable design, material processes, and the archive as cultural memory.
Parallel to her architectural work, Cindy engages in metalsmithing as a way to investigate design on a more intimate scale. In 2024, she founded Cinque, a studio dedicated to jewellery and object-making as a form of memory archive.

Through wax and metal forming, Cinque transforms natural and cultural relics into tangible, wearable pieces—sealing ephemeral moments into the material permanence of metalwork. Each piece evokes new interpretations of memory, activated through the touch of skin. Cinque uses this instinctive, tactile connection to express delicate, transient memories through the warmth of the five fingers—hence the name Cinque, meaning “five.”

Cinque founder Cindy Liu, with backgrounds in architecture and metalsmithing, practises jewellery and object making as a form of memory archive.

The 5 fingers of our hands absorb information and shape our earliest memories of the world. Cinque draws on this instinctive form of communication, translating delicate memories into tangible pieces through the temperature of our 5 fingers—hence the name Cinque, meaning “five.”

Through wax and metal forming, Cinque’s pieces transform natural and cultural relics into the wearable pieces, sealing ephemeral moments into the material permanence of the work. Handmade and cast in London, they create new connections and interpretations of memories, accessed through the intimacy of touch.