Calder began making jewelry for his sister’s dolls at age 6, and produced 1,800 pieces in his lifetime, always carrying pliers and wire in his pockets. “I think best in wire,” he once said.
A ring containing a portrait of Dora Maar made for her by Pablo Picasso in the 1930s is expected to fetch half a million at Sotheby's this month. That's a lot more than it sold for at the 1998 estate sale in Paris following Maar's death. No one knew Picasso had made jewelry by hand but the news was overshadowed by those paintings.
A year or two out of college, these jewelry artists are winning awards for creativity and craftsmanship, even on a budget. How do they do it? With the perfect saw and a portable photography studio.
If your particular island fantasy is to open a little shop and sell baubles to the tourists, here’s an option...
When I was a kid, I went door to door selling jewelry my brother made. We were the new kids on the block. He was shy. I was curious. We both wanted some cash.
Only three years after graduating college, Niki Grandics of ENJI Studios has racked up a pile of awards and grants for her edgy but wearable handmade jewelry. Here's the backstory of this talented emerging designer.
If you talk to studio jewelers about their jewelry, you wind up discussing technique. And it’s impossible to talk about...
December babies have as their birthstone a talisman imbued by ancient cultures with all the powers of sea and sky - two potent forces when you live off the land. Turquoise jewelry is as fashionable today as it was 7,000 years ago but the natural, untreated variety is getting harder to spot.
It’s every jeweler’s worst nightmare – and it happens all too often. Janine DeCresenzo and Megan Clark had their inventory...
As enamel jewelry takes off again, a new generation of artists and collectors are discovering, experimenting, and reinventing. Many types...
Botanical jewelry in the design gallery of the Philadelphia Flower Show, largest in the world, turns chickpeas into pearls and leaves to precious metal. Flower show jewels are judged not just on creativity but on how closely they replicate the real thing.