jewellery

Jewellery (noun) personal ornaments, such as necklaces, rings, or bracelets, that are typically made from or contain jewels and precious metal.

Judith Leiber (1921 – 2018) American designer of handbags

On: August 18, 2022

Judith Leiber (1921 – 2018) was a prolific designer whose fanciful minaudières had accessorised royalties, first ladies, and film stars, and entered the collections of art the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While her couture handbags—carried by celebrities such as Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Claudette Colbert, Björk, and Barbara Walters—are widely regarded as works of art, Leiber preferred the word “artisan” to “artist.”Read More →

Alma Eikerman (1908 – 1995) American jewellery designer and silversmith

On: August 15, 2022

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Alma Eikerman (1908 – 1995) was an American jewellery designer and silversmith. Eikerman was born in Pratt, Kansas, and graduated from Kansas State College in Emporia with a B.Sc. in 1934 and an M.Sc. in 1942. Read More →

Jean Schlumberger (1907 – 1987) French jewellery designer

On: August 10, 2022

Tagged: French, French design, jewellery, Jewellery Designer, paris

Jean Schlumberger (1907–1987), one of the most accomplished artists of the twentieth century, produced objects of unrivalled beauty. He was a man of exquisite taste, a jeweller who created extraordinary jewelled statements with a feeling of depth and life. Read More →

Louis Rault (1847 – 1903) French sculptor, engraver and jewellery designer

On: July 31, 2022

Tagged: engraver, French design, French Designer 🇫🇷, jewellery, Jewellery Designer, sculptor, silver, Silversmith

Louis Rault (1847 – 1903) was a French Sculptor, engraver, silversmith and jewellery designer.Between 1868 and 1875, Rault worked in the Boucheron workshop on the Place Vendôme in Paris. At the end of the nineteenth century, he set up a workshop where he produced silver and jewellery in the Art Nouveau style.Read More →

Flemming Eskildsen (b.1930) Danish designer and Silversmith

On: July 21, 2022

Tagged: Danish Design, danish designers 🇩🇰, jewellery, Jewellery Designer

In 1958 Eskildsen joined the Georg Jensen design department making designs for flatware, jewellery and hollowware. He became the foreman of the design department in 1962.Read More →

Pennino American costume jewellery firm

On: July 6, 2022

Tagged: American designers 🇺🇸, costume jewellery, jewellery, Jewellery Designer

In 1928, Oreste Pennino registered a series of 12 trademarks used from 1926 and illustrating signs of the Zodiac. The firm produced bracelets, rings, clips, earrings, lockets, and brooches and, from 1947, watches and watchcases. Its wares were designed in the forms of flower bouquets, fruit, leaves, and trees in rose, pale and dark blue, and violet. The firm closed in 1961.Read More →

Basse-taille – Design Term

On: July 4, 2022

Tagged: art term, decoration, Design Term, engraving, jewellery

Basse-taille is a method for enamelling the graves or graves low-reliefs on a metal surface,Read More →

Marcel Boucher (1898 – 1968) American costume jeweller

On: July 1, 2022

Tagged: jeweller, jewellery, Jewellery Designer

In 1925 Marcel Boucher arrived in New York from France and went to work for Cartier as a jeweller. Eventually, he leaves there and makes shoe buckles, possibly for Trifari. At this time, jewellery is all flat, without high modulation. Marcel started his firm in the Thirties, and his first line is an extraordinary group of bird pins made with coloured stones and bright enamels. Nothing like this has ever been done before.Read More →

Maison Gripoix costume jeweller – glass with class

On: June 30, 2022

Tagged: French, French design, French Designer 🇫🇷, jeweller, jewellery, Jewellery Designer

Maison Gripoix, a French costume jeweller, was located in Paris. Around 1890, Maison Gripoix sold glass beads and buttons wholesale. Subsequently, specialised in handmade imitations of precious and semi-precious jewels, including parures for Sarah Bernhardt.Read More →

Dichroic glass – two coloured glass

On: June 18, 2022

Tagged: glass, glassware designer, jewellery

Dichroic glass is a type of glass created in the 1990s using the space-age technology known as ‘thin film physics. Dichroic which means “two colours” is a particular kind of glass Read More →

Boucheron French Jewellery House

On: January 18, 2022

Tagged: French design, french style, jewellery, Jewellery Designer

Boucheron was a French court jeweller with branches in Paris, London, Biarritz, and New York. Founded by Frederic Boucheron (1858). Famous for elaborate diamond jewellery during the late 19th century. Expensive novelties shown at international exhibitions in Paris (1867 and 1900) and Philadelphia (1876) attracted wealthy customers (mainly American).Read More →

Alphonse Fouquet (1828 – 1911) French Goldsmith and Jeweller

On: January 14, 2022

Tagged: French, French design, jeweller, jewellery, Jewellery Designer

His early jewellery was in neo-Greek and neo-Renaissance styles, indistinguishable from Vever, Fossin, Morel, and Mellerio.Read More →

Bapst et Falize French Goldsmith and Jewellery Firm

On: January 9, 2022

Tagged: French, French design, jewellery, Jewellery Designer

In 1752, Georges-Michel Bapst became King Louis XV’s jeweller and took over the direction of his father-in-shop, law’s Georges-Frédéric Stras. (Stras invented ‘strass,’ a colourless glass paste commonly used for jewellery in the 18th and 19th centuries.)Read More →

Caroline Broadhead ( b.1951 ) British Jewellery Designer

On: January 1, 2022

Tagged: british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, jewellery, Jewellery Designer

She used coloured ivory in her early work. In 1977, she started producing necklaces with bound thread. In 1978, she designed a wood- or silver-framed bracelet with tufts of nylon through which the hand could be squeezed; she was a leader in the new jewellery movement that began in 1968, and she used plastic, cloth, paper, and rubber instead of precious metal.Read More →

Carlo Guiliano (1831 – 1895) Italian Goldsmith and Jeweller

On: December 8, 2021

Tagged: Etruscan Style, G, Italian Design 🇮🇹, Italian Designers 🇮🇹, italian 🇮🇹, jewellery, Jewellery Designer

Carlo Guiliano was an Italian jeweller and goldsmith who was born in Naples and worked in London. In 1860, Guiliano settled in London and worked for Harry Emanuel. He collaborated with Castellani Italian Jewellers on at least one piece of jewellery. In the archaeological or Etruscan style, he was a talented jeweller. He developed his distinctive style, which was copied a lot in the 1880s and 1890s. The Italian-born Pasquale Novissimo, Guiliano’s assistant, created such delicate enamel decoration on Guillano ‘s pieces that they were difficult to copy.Read More →

Nanna Ditzel (1923 – 2005) Danish architect and furniture designer

On: December 6, 2021

Tagged: art, brooch, copenhagen, danish, Danish Design, danish designers 🇩🇰, Denmark, Design, designed, designers, designs, furniture, jewellery, Scandi Design

Nanna Ditzel, a leading Danish 20th-century designer, had also worked in furniture, textiles and jewellery design for many decades and has been one of the few women designers in the country to achieve celebrity status.Read More →

Borje Rajalin (b.1933) Finnish Jewellery Designer

On: November 30, 2021

Tagged: Design, designer, findland, helsinki, jewellery, Scandi Design

Borje Rajalin is a Finnish Jewellery Designer.

Rajalin worked at Bertel Gardberg’s silversmith from 1952 – 1956. His design work included technical equipment, plastic fittings, cutlery, stainless steel table and cookware and with Anti Nurmesniemi in 1972 a train for the Helsinki Railway. They collaborated with station designers to make the metro stations modern and chic. Rajalin produced silver designs for Bertel Gardberg and jewellery for Kalevala Koru. He taught at Taideeteollinen Oppilaitos and was the director of Taidetelinen Ammattikoulu in Helsinki.Read More →

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Robert Goosens (1927 – 2016) French jewellery designer

On: November 26, 2021

Tagged: French, French design, jeweller, jewellery, Jewellery Designer, paris

Monsieur Bijou was the moniker given to Robert Goosens, a French jeweller who lived from 1927 to 2016. He was born in Paris, France, the son of a metal foundry worker. He learned the techniques of casting, engraving, and embossing semi-precious and simulated stones into gold and silver metals during his apprenticeship in jewellery making. Read More →

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Jean Fouquet (1899 – 1964) French Jewellery Designer

On: November 25, 2021

Tagged: French, French design, jeweller, jewellery, Jewellery Designer

In 1919, he joined as a designer in the family firm, 6 rue Royale, Paris; he was a friend of Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard. Between 1920—25, he collaborated on Le Corbusier’s and Amédée Ozenfant’s review L’Esprit Nouveau: Revue International d’Esthétique. In his jewellery, he developed a liking for abstract compositions. From 1931, his jewellery designs were characterized by pure and simple geometry. In 1929, abandoning the Société des Artistes Décorateurs, he became a founding member of UAM (Union des Artistes Modernes). Read More →

Marius Hammer (1847 – 1927) Norwegian silversmith

On: November 18, 2021

Tagged: jewellery, Jewellery Designer, norwegian design, norwegian designer, scandinavian, scandinavian design, Silversmith, silversmith - norway

Hammer was head of one of Norway’s largest silversmithies. He was best known for his plique-a-jour enamelled spoons popular with tourists and exported in large quantities. He produced the ‘Norwegian brilliant enamel work’ spoons offered in the 1896 and 1898 Christmas catalogues of Liberty, London. Read More →

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