Custom Jewelry Designers Biography
Source (google.com.pk )Honoring a deep sense of place, Marion is 4th generation Californian raised on a sheep ranch in Honeydew, CA. Currently and for many years, Marion lives in Winters, CA with walnut and citrus farming as her locus between trips abroad and art shows featuring her tribal ethnographic antiquities and uniquely composed one of a kind jewelry.
While living in Davis, CA with her husband, ecology professor Bill Hamilton, PhD., Marion studied art with members of the Bay Area Impressionist School - Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Arneson, and Roy De Forest.
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In 1980 the Hamiltons moved to Winters, CA where Marion had an antique shop for many years. Her passion for art and antiques culminates with expertise as a jewelry designer, featuring asymmetrical contemporary compositions as portals into the past with an eye on antiquities.
Marion's comprehensive understanding of antique beads and artifacts comes from years of international travel and living part time in Africa.
born in the heart of Athens is today an internationally renowned artist and jeweller. After working in the family business for many years he founded his own company in 1969 entitled Greek Gold-Ilias Lalaounis S.A. Initially branches were opened on several Greek Islands and soon expanded through Europe in Paris, Zurich, Geneva, and London and in cities throughout the world such as New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong. He has received many prizes for his art with the outmost important being that of the French Academy of Fine Arts in 1990, as the only jeweller ever to be elected as its member.
His career begins in the 40’s when he oversaw works for the family’s Zolotas firm. At those very difficult years within the Greek society both politically and financially Lalaounis turned to new ways of promoting the business. At first with the introduction of new machinery and techniques for the manufacturing of chains, he continued the gem setting jewelry but studied ancient goldsmith techniques for designs prescribed on gold 18k and 22k jewelry and micro sculpture. In the Fifties his ingenious idea of reviving Greek jewelry was hugely successful and without doubt changed his life and career. Ancient artefacts sparked off his imagination and inspired thousands of jewelry designs. Lalaounis’ knowledge and grasp for the art and history of early civilizations led to a number of ‘archaeological’ collections based on various cultures in Europe, Asia and the Americas. In the Seventies he proved his inexhaustible ability to create and search for new ideas with some spectacular designs based on modern technology, astronomy, nature and medicine, to mention a few. He overwhelmed his clientele with the sheer diversity of his jewelry and the richness of the gold for which he became well known.
In 1993, the company’s workshops were moved to new, purpose-built facilities. The building was altered to house a unique Jewelry Museum, the only museum world-wide dedicated to contemporary jewelry. The Museum’s founder, Ilias Lalaounis, envisaged a social role for the Museum in endorsing the development of contemporary Greek jewelry, through a framework of promotion, display and academic research that such an institution may offer. Today, in its superbly equipped new workshops, Ilias Lalaounis Greek Gold LTD produces the designs sold in the company’s outlets in Greece and abroad. In line with the family tradition, Ilias Lalaounis’ four daughters, Katerini, Demetra, Maria and Ioanna direct both the company and the museum.
Jewellery has been used to denote status. In ancient Rome, for instance, only certain ranks could wear rings;[15] later, sumptuary laws dictated who could wear what type of jewellery, again based on rank. Cultural dictates have also played a significant role. For example, the wearing of earrings by Western men was considered effeminate in the 19th century and early 20th century. More recently, the display of body jewellery, such as piercings, has become a mark of acceptance or seen as a badge of courage within some groups but is completely rejected in others. Likewise, hip hop culture has popularised the slang term bling-bling, which refers to ostentatious display of jewellery by men or women.
Conversely, the jewellery industry in the early 20th century launched a campaign to popularise wedding rings for men, which caught on, as well as engagement rings for men, which did not, going so far as to create a false history and claim that the practice had medieval roots. By the mid-1940s, 85% of weddings in the U.S. featured a double-ring ceremony, up from 15% in the 1920s.[16] Religion has also played a role: Islam, for instance, considers the wearing of gold by men as a social taboo,[17] and many religions have edicts against excessive display.[18] In Christianity, the New Testament gives injunctions against the wearing of gold, in the writings of the apostles Paul and Peter. In Revelation 17, "the great whore" or false religious system, is depicted as being "decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand.
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