Love Architecture? Love Jewelry? You'll LOVE Barbara
We make no bones about it - we love jewelry here at Bella Figura USA. And one of our all time favorite designers is Massachusetts based, Barbara Silverstein.
Barbara is a fan of contemporary, minimal architectural lines - classic lines. And it was love at first sight when she first spied some industrial braided stainless steel in her local hardware store. As she beautifully described it, "...my response to the purity of the intrinsic beauty of braided stainless steel was immediate and total."
By 1996, Barbara was not only designing her own braiding and fashioning her sleek steel designs, but she had come up with five electroplated finishes for them: 14k gold, 24k gold, bronze, antique, gunmetal and her own original finish of champagne.
It didn't take too long for Barbara to find another unusual inspiration: a lint catcher from her dryer - specifically the knitted wires of the lint catcher.
This atypical "muse object" inspired her to create the jewelry pieces whose delicate mesh wiring ensconce freshwater pearls and sparkling Swarovski crystals. Utterly gorgeous and completely unique!
However, not just content to create luxurious, timeless pieces, Barbara was also determined that her jewelry be maintenance free and COMFORTABLE. To this end, many of the pieces close with magnetic clasps - no fumbling around trying to get little chains to hook into tiny rings! And her collars wear like a dream - no sense of heaviness, even with her most opulent collars.
Museum shops and galleries carry the work of Barbara SilverStein, which makes perfect sense as they are truly works of art. And at Bella Figura USA we are very proud and pleased to offer you a variety of pieces from the Barbara SilverStein Collection.
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Barbara is a fan of contemporary, minimal architectural lines - classic lines. And it was love at first sight when she first spied some industrial braided stainless steel in her local hardware store. As she beautifully described it, "...my response to the purity of the intrinsic beauty of braided stainless steel was immediate and total."
By 1996, Barbara was not only designing her own braiding and fashioning her sleek steel designs, but she had come up with five electroplated finishes for them: 14k gold, 24k gold, bronze, antique, gunmetal and her own original finish of champagne.
It didn't take too long for Barbara to find another unusual inspiration: a lint catcher from her dryer - specifically the knitted wires of the lint catcher.
This atypical "muse object" inspired her to create the jewelry pieces whose delicate mesh wiring ensconce freshwater pearls and sparkling Swarovski crystals. Utterly gorgeous and completely unique!
However, not just content to create luxurious, timeless pieces, Barbara was also determined that her jewelry be maintenance free and COMFORTABLE. To this end, many of the pieces close with magnetic clasps - no fumbling around trying to get little chains to hook into tiny rings! And her collars wear like a dream - no sense of heaviness, even with her most opulent collars.
Museum shops and galleries carry the work of Barbara SilverStein, which makes perfect sense as they are truly works of art. And at Bella Figura USA we are very proud and pleased to offer you a variety of pieces from the Barbara SilverStein Collection.
Click to return to Bella Figura USA HOME
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