A family history in jewellery
From Pinsk in 1898 to Warsaw, Caracas, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong and London, the family story follows a jewellery tradition shaped by survival, movement and the search for exceptional stones.
The beginning
Born in Pinsk, in present day Belarus, Moisey Avraamovich Kohen began learning the jeweller’s craft there in 1898, at the age of twenty three.
What began as a craft became family knowledge. The work later moved west to Warsaw, where the next generation continued it with the same patience, proportion and close understanding of precious material.
Four generations · eight chapters
At twenty three, in 1898, Moisey began learning the jeweller’s craft in Pinsk. Precision, patience and an understanding of precious material became the first principles of a family practice that would continue far beyond one city.
In Warsaw, Itzhak Moiseyevich Cohen carried the family craft forward, developing a precise eye for stones and sourcing.
War interrupted the work, the city and the continuity of ordinary life. The tradition survived through the knowledge carried by the family.
After the war, Itzhak returned to Venezuela. In 1952 he re established the family business at Edificio La Francia in Caracas.
From 1970, David continued the family business, sourcing gemstones and gold across Venezuela and Africa. The Caracas chapter ended in 2010 following the government takeover of La Francia.
After leaving Caracas in 2010, David moved to Tel Aviv and continued the business there until 2013, maintaining the family’s focus on gemstones, sourcing and private trade.
In 2013, Alexander Davidovich Cohen assumed the business and moved its base to Hong Kong. From there he specialised in the private sourcing of exceptional gemstones, travelling through South America, Africa and Central Asia in search of stones with unusual character, origin and rarity.
In 2019, Alexander Cohen relocated the business to London. The city became the new base for private client work, diamonds, important gemstones and international sourcing.
In 2026, Alexander Cohen partnered with Olesia Cohen to develop the High Jewellery design side of the house. Olesia leads the design direction, while Alexander, specialising in diamonds and exceptional gemstones, sources the stones that become one of one commissions created for individual clients.
The name
Caracas · a name with memory
The name was chosen to carry two ideas at once: inheritance and gratitude.
Levi reaches back to the Levites, a name associated in Jewish tradition with service, continuity and inheritance. It anchors the house in the idea that knowledge is received, protected and passed forward.
Family history remembers General José Rafael Arias de la Rosa as a Sephardic friend and business associate who helped Itzhak establish himself in Caracas. Arias was kept as an act of gratitude and, in the family telling, as the image of the lion on the mountain: strength, presence and a voice that carries.
Diamonds & gemstones
From the gold and gemstone trade in Caracas to sourcing across South America, Africa and Central Asia, the family story has always been shaped by material knowledge, rarity and judgement.
A tradition built around gem quality, material knowledge and the ability to recognise what is truly exceptional.
From craftsmanship to trade, jewellery remained central: made, handled, assessed and understood from the inside.
South America, Africa and Central Asia deepened the family’s relationship with origin, supply and the search for remarkable material.
Then & now
Across workshop benches, trading floors, sourcing journeys and private commissions, one habit remains unchanged: looking closely at the stone, the proportion, the workmanship and the person for whom a jewel is being created.
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