Silver Jewelry Designers Biography
Source (google.com.pk )Chris Lewis is a silver jewellery designer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He launched his brand in 2003 and has enjoyed ten years of consistent growth and critical acclaim.
Chris Lewis is a distinctively different designer silver jewellery line. It is perfect for those searching for that balance between sensible pricing and quality design. The collections offer design innovation, timeless statement and they are exquisitely and individually hand-crafted, with an uncompromising level of quality that the discerning Chris Lewis customer has come to expect from this beautiful brand.
Chris’s approach to designing silver jewellery comes from developing signature textures and combining them to add depth. He is often inspired by the natural forms he comes across on his extensive travels.
Chris was based in the UK for the first 5 years of trading. However, in 2008 Chris relocated overseas to focus more on the USA market and the company is now registered in the historic city of Queretaro, Mexico where Chris lives and works. The brand now sells well in over 12 nations worldwide and Chris travels extensively to meet clients and attend prestigious jewellery trade shows worldwide.
Jason Burruss is a jewelry designer specializing in the art of silver and gemstone cold-fusion. Native to Midlothian, Virginia, Jason has been a pioneer of the medium for six years. He studied several art forms before focusing on handmade silver design.
An adamant perfectionist, Jason uses the fundamental principles of symmetry to accomplish a unique style unmatched in cold-fusion jewelry design. Through his distinctive sense of aesthetics, Jason is able to create balanced, flawless, jewelry concepts with remarkable universal appeal.
With his passionate resolve to the spirit of free-market America, Jason stands as an inspiration to young artists everywhere. Recognizing the importance of creating a modern, producing economy, Jason strives to encourage a new generation to embrace their creativity with an entrepreneurial spirit, taking the art market back from cheap foreign importation.
Now 26, Jason currently lives and works outside of Asheville, North Carolina. With wholesalers worldwide, his work can be found anywhere from Tokyo to Texas, and at art shows, storefronts, and music festivals across the country.
One of the finest designer/craftsmen to have emerged from the Mexican Silver Renaissance of the twentieth century was Antonio Piñeda of Taxco.
Born in 1919 to an old Taxco family, as a youth Antonio attended the progressive Open Air School of Taxco, he studied painting under Tamachi Kitagawa & David Alfaro Siquieros, sculpture with Martín Pineda. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to the newly founded Taller de Las Delicias of William Spratling to learn the craft of silversmithing. After eight years with Spratling, and by then a master in his own right, Antonio founded his own workshop in 1941, this move enabled his artistic talents to blossom in his own original designs.
Sterling & Pearl Earrings
An accomplished silversmith noted for his innovative techniques, Antonio's international recognition began in 1946 when his work was exhibited alongside that of Margaret De Patta and Georg Jensen at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Antonio had exhibited at the urging of Richard Gump and following the exhibition, Gump's purchased the entire collection of Antonio works to offer in their well known retail establishment. This commercial relationship with the upscale West Coast retailer lasted for the next decade, firmly establishing a place for Antonio jewelry in the North American mainstream
The 1940s were important years for Antonio's artistic development, during this time he attended a trade school in Mexico City in order to refine his craftsmanship.
Massive 970 Silver Buckle
While there, he established a relationship with Valentin Vidauretta, a painter and highly regarded silver designer with a silver shop in Mexico City. Piñeda acknowledges Vidauretta as a great influence in spurring him to develop his own ethos of design and around 1950, Antonio's design concept truly coalesced into his signature style. Large & spare, cleanly designed sets of hollow construction using creatively cut stones in innovative settings, the architecture using inventive joining, catches & closures. Aside from their intrinsic beauty, Antonio pieces are amongst the most technically refined ever made in Taxco.
Antonio became the preeminent proponent and producer of Mexican Modernism in the decorative arts. By 1956, highly successful, he
970 silver Spring Clip Earrings
had the need to expand to a second workshop in order to meet the demand to fill his own retail shop on the Plaza Borda and that of clients abroad.
Always interested in promoting fine design and originality in local silversmithing, Antonio helped organize the earliest of the Ferias de la Plata (Silver Fairs) of Taxco where he garnered the Presidential Prize in both 1953 & 1959. In the 1980s, he helped to found the Taxco Museo de la Plateria, an institution inaugurated 1988. Mr. Pineda is still active in the world of jewelry design.
970 Silver & Amethyst Bracelet
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Over the course of his long career, Antonio Pineda is known to have used four different maker's marks: "AP in circle", "Silver by Toño", "Jewels by Antonio" and his famed "Antonio, Taxco within crown". In the early years he used .980 silver, has been known to use .925 Sterling, but the predominant standard of his work is .
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Silver Jewelry DesignersJewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Silver Jewelry DesignersJewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Silver Jewelry DesignersJewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Silver Jewelry DesignersJewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Silver Jewelry DesignersJewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
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