I never tire of people bringing me little handfuls of gold. Broken chains. Old rings. Some even have their names in script lettering (yes, the 1970s happened). That amazing warm metal from the earth can be...
My friend and colleague Andrew Berry asked me a tough question once. (Only once.) Let's say you are only allowed to make 1,000 pieces of jewelry in your lifetime, he said. And you've already made 999 pieces. What would your final piece be? It might seem like a simple...
The winter of 2016 will go down in GMA history as the season of the stretch. After more than two decades of selling my work directly to my retail clients (custom and otherwise), I stretched myself during the last year to: put together a wholesale collection around the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [caption id="attachment_6006" align="alignright" width="300"] The Bianchi Family - my client Bess is the infant in her grandmother's arms.[/caption] Decades ago, an infant American girl received an 18-karat gold bracelet from her grandmother, from Argentina. As she grew, she became aware of the bracelet, held by her mother...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A fresh, white blanket of snow didn’t matter on the morning of one of my meetings with my client, Diana. Not a native Southerner, she didn’t assume that our meeting would be rescheduled when we awoke to the wintry conditions outside like I did. I made my way...
As a metalsmith, I could talk metals all day. I work mostly with non-ferrous and precious metals, including gold, white gold, platinum, palladium, copper, silver, brass and bronze. I am often asked which metal I prefer and why, or what metal is best for various uses....