Meet our Stockists: LINGG
- Heidi and Beth in their store, LINGG in Cleveland, OH
- LINGG in Cleveland, OH
LINGG was founded by Heidi Lingg in the early 2000s, but the story really begins long before the doors opened. Heidi and Beth Finley Alunni have worked alongside one another for more than three decades, first as buyers for another art and design gallery in Northeast Ohio. By the time LINGG came to life, Heidi had spent 17 years and Beth 10 years identifying artists, designers, and jewelry makers whose work felt distinctive and worth sharing.
That history shows.
Walking into LINGG isn't quite like walking into a traditional jewelry store. Their philosophy has always been much more personal. Heidi and Beth aren't interested in telling you what you should wear or simply following whatever happens to be trending. Instead, they have spent years helping people slowly build collections that feel like extensions of themselves—old pieces next to new ones, precious next to playful, different metals, textures, colors, and stories all living together.
Heidi once described a person's jewelry collection as being almost like an individual fingerprint: all of the pieces we gather over time come together to create a point of view that is entirely our own.
We love that idea.
There is something wonderfully freeing about the way Heidi and Beth approach jewelry. There don't seem to be many rules. Mix your metals. Layer the necklace you've owned for twenty years with the one you bought yesterday. Wear the sentimental piece beside something strange, sculptural, or unexpected. As Beth puts it, sometimes more is more.
But underneath that playfulness is something much deeper: an understanding that jewelry carries memory.
LINGG has helped clients reimagine family heirlooms into pieces they'll actually wear, preserving the emotional history while allowing the object itself to evolve. Beth even wears a cuff incorporating her mother's baby bracelet. Their philosophy is that something meaningful doesn't have to remain untouched in a jewelry box simply because it belonged to another time. It can change with you, while keeping the love that was there in the first place.
Maybe that's why LINGG has built the kind of community it has.
Heidi has spoken about customers who have become like family—people who began shopping with them years ago, had children, watched those children grow up, and now see the next generation coming into LINGG and beginning collections of their own.
- Vintage charms in gold
For a small independent jewelry studio like Occasionally Sweet, being chosen by a store like this carries a little extra meaning.
Heidi and Beth have spent decades looking at jewelry. They have met countless artists and designers and developed an incredibly distinct eye. Their gallery brings together work from local, regional, national and international makers, yet somehow it never feels like a collection of unrelated things. There is personality, curiosity, humor, craftsmanship, and a little bit of the unexpected throughout.
Their own words for LINGG are wonderfully simple: “Where Jewelry and Art Collide.”
And perhaps that's one of the reasons Occasionally Sweet feels so at home there.
So much of what we make is rooted in the same belief—that jewelry doesn't need to shout to become meaningful. A piece can simply catch your eye, become part of your everyday life, collect memories with you, and slowly become unmistakably yours.
We feel incredibly lucky that our little world has found a home within Heidi and Beth's.
If you find yourself in Northeast Ohio, we hope you'll visit LINGG. Go for the jewelry, stay for their incredible eye, and perhaps leave with something you didn't know you were looking for.
After all, the best collections aren't built all at once.
They're gathered slowly, piece by piece, story by story.
With much love,
A