Fellow Designers
Michael Good
"Tucked away in beautiful and secluded pockets of the vast American landscape are goldsmiths whose work rivals the best the world has known. Preeminent among them is Michael Good a goldsmith whose use of what he calls the anticlastic process has forced the commercial jewelry world to expand its definitions and ideas about how American jewelry should look and how it can be made." Ettegale Blauer
Jacob Snow
"Designer jewelry is an art form. It should not only stir the emotion and soul of the wearer, but also be a balanced marriage of fine art and the science of master goldsmithing." Jacob Snow For over ten years, Jacob Snow has been a design consultant and well respected advanced diamond setter for many of America's top jewelry designers. Today he devotes his time to the design, production, and promotion of his own line -Jacob Snow Designs. In his first year in the market, Jacob was named a "rising Star" and won the American Jewelry Design Council Talent Competition in 1995. Each piece in the Heirloom Collection is original, handmade, and hand carved. They are designed to endure the rest of time in style and quality. Because of the labor-intensive nature of his work, Jacob's designs are only offered in 18k Gold and Platinum. These pieces are individually pierced and carved, which allows for a wide variety of custom and specially made creations. With stones, without stones, yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, platinum; the combinations are almost endless!
Bill Richey
"I strive for simplicity in design and a clean, pure line.
From the initial concept I strip away elements to
arrive at the design's purest form."
Ronna Lugosch
As a mother, Ronna wanted to design a piece that would convey the deep love, the desire to nurture and protect that she felt for her children. The result was Mother's Love, a piece that embodies those emotions in a mother embracing her child. One of our most popular designs, this "heart" shaped piece comes in 2 styles: The "Original," which customers often describe as a Madonna and Child, and the "Silhouette," Call for information and prices for customizing with birthstones.
Georg Spreng
Each jewel bears a mystery, sometimes we can discover it: "A blazing campfire, a smooth lake, mosquitoes, Canadian woods all around, endless. Absolute stillness. And suddenly the idea was born to heat a small..."
Henry Dunay
Henry Dunay is the patriarch of jewelry designers. He started sweeping floors in the jewelry district as a young man long before any one knew of the concept of brand name designer jewelry. Through decades of hard work Henry built a reputation for the finest of jewelry made in his own personal style.
Sam Shaw
"My work currently explores the form, texture and color, and relationships of natural beachstones. I often associate them with fossils and familiar gemstones to heighten the awareness of their common ancestry. Coming of Age on an island in Maine, I've always been attracted to the shapes and personalities of rocks along the shore. This fascination was enhanced by a degree in geology, and applied through a lifelong love of art. The combination of the visual appeal of these simple stones and an understanding of the natural forces that create them drives my curiosity and excitement when working with them. Consider that pure geometric forms and smooth shapes can be the result of a brutal and chaotic environment found on an ocean beach. A humble piece of basalt may have a perfectly formed "X" of intruded quartz. In my eye, this is fantastic and worthy of heightened consideration. Its value is affirmed by setting it in precious metal. The urge to pick up beautiful, rounded pebbles is almost universal. Many people walk away from the beach with a hard, round memory in their pocket. It is my hope that my jewelry evokes such emotion."
Thomas Hill
"I have been a full-time artist since leaving college in 1994 and make pieces both for exhibitions and for corporate, public and private commissions. My pieces are made using mild steel wire, with additions of steel or copper sheet and copper meshes. I consider myself to be both a draftsman and a metalworker. My three-dimensional pieces are based on drawn studies of birds and animals in motion. I find that the steel wire I use behaves in much the same way as a quickly drawn line, and thus I am able to create, in effect, a three-dimensional “sketchâ€."
Thomas Mann
"Thomas Mann has been an active participant in the contemporary American craft movement for the past thirty years as an artist, gallery owner and lecturer.
He describes himself as an artist working in the medium of jewelry and sculpture. The primary design vocabulary which he employs in the making of jewelry objects combines industrial aesthetics and materials and with evocative romantic themes and imagery. He calls this design system Techno.Romantic¨. Though it is not the only design mode in which he works, it is the one for which he and his work is best known."
Stuart Golder
"A thin strand of wire is like a single note in music, which when grouped and arranged, has the potential to become a composition of great depth and intrigue."
Stuart Golder
Thomas Herman
"Using the traditional techniques of chasing, engraving and saw-piercing, I try to capture in Gold and Platinum the beauty and rhythm of organic forms. I enjoy expressing the delicacy of these natural forms using the strength of metal. I often find inspiration in architectural ornament and detail."
Thomas Herman
