178 Hicks Street #3, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 646 318 1944 Email: e_essner@msn.com Elizabeth Essner is a certified member of the Appraisers Association of America. She is USPAP certified and can provide appraisals for insurance, estate tax and charitable donations. A specialist in twentieth century design for nearly a decade, Elizabeth Essner began evaluating modern decorative arts focusing […]
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Exterior Shot of Heidi Lowe Gallery Damian Skinner: How long have you been running a gallery? Heidi Lowe: It will be seven years on July 31, 2012. Your building looks kind of special. What is its history, and how did you come to occupy it? It’s a cute 500 square foot cottage from the 1940s. It
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Galleries exhibiting jewelry are an important part of our community and the people who run them have interesting backgrounds and stories to tell. In this interview Rosemarie Jaeger from Galerie Rosemarie Jaeger in Hochheim, Germany answered some questions posed by Damian Skinner. Galerie Rosemarie Jaeger Rosemarie Jaeger: The house and adjoining buildings date from 1742,
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Atinuj Atty Tantivit Damian Skinner: How long have you been running a gallery? Atty Tantivit: Just about a year. We opened our doors at the end of August 2010 but had an official opening on November 11, 2010. Where did your interest in contemporary jewelry come from? I have always loved wearing jewelry. Growing up
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Last October 2012, at the time of the opening of the Rita J and Stanley H Kaplan Family Foundation Gallery at the Boston MFA, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Yvonne Markowitz, the museum’s curator of jewelry. (You can read a review of the Kaplan gallery’s first exhibition, Jewels, Gems, and
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Helena Pahlman (left) with Silvia Walz (middle) and Ramon Puig Cuyas (right) from Spain. Photo: Lasse Pahlman Damian Skinner: These collectors are not in their thirties, they’re in their fifties and sixties. Is it a situation where, as people get older, they suddenly become contemporary jewelry collectors? Or are we are not capturing the interest
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Thursday March 15, 2012 Munich is known as die stadt der lebensfreude, the city filled with the joy of life – and with the bonus of welcome, sunny weather it was a pleasure to be in the Bavarian capital while Schmuck was on. Olga Zobel-Biró showing work by Lisa Walker Gallery Biró, our first stop,
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Organizers Astrid Berens and Maarten Bodt created SIERAAD Art Fair in the hopes of democratizing the sales process and increasing the popularity of jewelry. It began ten years ago on an indoor tennis court in Enschede, a city about two hours by train from Amsterdam. It has been housed by various locations over the years,
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Since 1997 Elise Winters has been collecting polymer jewelry with the intention of establishing a permanent collection in an American museum, along with an online archive that celebrates polymer jewelry in all its forms. Having gone through all the stages and roles of collector – acquiring objects, establishing her collection’s identity, working with experts and
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Collecting jewelry through Facebook? It’s possible. An ephemeral act of collecting occurred in the social media world in April 2011, after SOFA NY in New York City. There, Sienna Gallery presented Costume Costume: An Opulent Project. The Opulent Project is a collective working out of Portland, Oregon, that was formed in 2006 by Erin Gardner
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The first wall text you encounter in the jewelry gallery at the V&A museum in London is this no-nonsense, factual statement of what you’ll see: ‘These displays begin in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Thereafter they are devoted mainly to the story of western jewelry since medieval times.’ On the lower level, the display begins
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Is it time to consider insuring, donating or dispersing your art jewelry collection – or any of your jewelry? A necessary part of such a process is obtaining an appraisal; before getting the appraisal, you need to find an appropriate appraiser. A personal property appraisal for jewelry includes a document that identifies each piece of
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