Modern Jewelry Designers Biography
Source(google.com.pk)Her designs inspires those who appreciate style, design and uncompromising quality. “When a woman is wearing my jewelry, I want her to feel as if she is wrapped in one of life’s greatest luxuries,” states Sangeeta Boochra.
Initially formally educated in the line of fashion designing, she soon found her true calling in the art of jewelry making. Sangeeta Boochra today runs a team of 250 traditional Karigars and Artisans handpicked from the lands of Rajasthan to give shape to her unique designs. She follows the process of realization, interacting with traditional jewelry artisans and giving them the right direction, which in turn makes her designs traditional and modern yet, versatile. In her collection one finds timeless and evocative pieces.
Behind her every design is a philosophy expressing an aesthetic choice, defining the canons of style and harmony. Her designs truly do represent her contemporariness and projection of the past towards the future.
Award-winning designer Sangeeta Boochra of Silver Centrre has been regularly invited and have showcased her collection at various Fashion Weeks around the world.
Ethnic Indian Jewellery with its very own chic language of design with a touch of Modernity , trying to give a new face to Indian Jewellery.
Sangeeta Boochra took on herself to show the brilliance of Indian Jewellery to the World through her creativity and vision. She travelled extensively into the interiors of India worked with villagers and craftsman and then delved into the ancient craftsmanship and began to create exclusive jewellery with the help of master craftsmen around Jaipur.
Sangeeta Boochra had a vision : ushering in a renaissance in the ancient art of jewellery , she uses elements of Ethnic Indian Jewellery.
Sangeeta’s earliest memories are of playing in her mother’s jewellery box and accessorizing her clothing transforming a necklace into a belt. Some of Sangeeta’s friends played with dolls, other played sports, Sangeeta accessorized. Designing jewellery is part of Sangeeta’s DNA, and Sangeeta always knew that she would be a jewellery designer.
Sangeeta’s organic eye for design and color interpretation has helped her clients understand that fashion is about style and creating a total look – including accessories. Beyond the clothes, jewellery is integral to a woman’s wardrobing and provides the finishing-touch to any outfit. Each piece of jewellery is designed to complement each other, to present an entire ensemble based upon certain constant design features, so that pieces designed 20 years ago are relevant and can be worn with the designs of today.
Sangeeta Boochra’s distinctive designs reflect her passion for jewellery and celebrate her enthusiasm for individualism with her commitment to timeless styling. Always maintaining a classic with a modern twist sensibility, Sangeeta Boochra harmonizes the versatility and wearability of her original concept of designing jewellery that can be worn from Suits to blue jeans to black tie, from day into evening.
Sangeeta Boochra strikes a unique balance of uptown sophistication and downtown chic. “It’s about striking the balance between the elegance of a classic woman with the fashion sense of today’s modern woman,” states Sangeeta Boochra.
Born Henry Loniewski in Jersey City, New Jersey on May 1, 1935.[1] Second of three sons of Polish Americans Henry and Helen Loniewski. At the age of 18, feeling that the name Loniewski would be an impediment, he changed it to Dunay, his mother’s short and memorable maiden name.
He lives in New York City.
Career and Designs
Cynnabar ring designed for Hillary Clinton
At the age of 14, Dunay began his career working as a messenger for Rudolph Cacioli, a New York City jeweler. Simultaneously he swam competitively and won a medal in the Butterfly stroke at the Pan American Games.[citation needed] Shortly thereafter, Cacioli took him under his wing as his apprentice.[1][6] In 1967 he started his own jewelry design firm, Henry Dunay Designs. Almost immediately, he won what would be the first of many design awards, a De Beers Diamonds International Award.[citation needed]
Dunay is best known for extravagant and technical finishes that he applies to gold surfaces, often in combination, including diamond pave, facets, matte and Sabi - a flowing design of fine grooves, which he trademarked 1992.[citation needed]
Hillary Clinton wearing the above ring at the 1992 inaugural ball
That year, at the Presidential Inaugural Ball, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton wore a Henry Dunay ring featuring a yellow diamond found in her home state of Arkansas, called the Kahn diamond.In 1993, he designed a Lachrymosa mask for Elizabeth Taylor with the proceeds benefiting the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR), shown in the above photo of Dunaygrance named SABI, which is Japanese for 'simple elegance'.[7] The Guinness Book of World Records cited it as the most expensive pinch bottle ever created.[8]
Henry Dunay jewelry was retailed throughout the world, substantially in the United States by Neiman Marcus, and with particular demand in Japan. He became the President and founding member of the American Jewelry Design Council in 1989,[2] and was the first American given the City of Geneva award for design.[9]
Affected by the late-2000s financial crisis, Henry Dunay Designs and its inventory valued at $50 million was sold at auction in December 2009.[10] He later formed a new company, H.D.D. Inc., focusing on custom pieces.[5][6][8]
Today he continues to design and hand fabricate jewelry in New York City's Diamond District.
Awards
Henry Dunay has been awarded over 50 National and International Awards during a career that spans over forty years.
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Modern Jewelry DesignersJewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Modern Jewelry DesignersJewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Modern Jewelry DesignersJewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Modern Jewelry DesignersJewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Modern Jewelry DesignersJewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
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