The Designers

Since meeting in jewelry design class at Kent State University, we have worked closely together focusing our lives on design development and the creation of the most ultimately advanced, aesthetically and spiritually pure, elegantly beautiful jewelry that is within our capacity. Trained formally as individual artists, we have developed a unique technique for collaborative design. We have our own strengths that we bring to each project. We feel our technique for collaborative design brings forward a stronger piece. Two philosophical design approaches affect all our work, one is "less is more" and the other is "form follows function". This philosophy of design creates a beautiful functional piece of jewelry. Inspirations come from the natural world around us as well as inspiration from humanity's creative spirit from the ancient world to our present day.

Thomas is a third-generation, contemporary jewelry designer who has been immersed in the art/craft movement all of his life. Nora has been trained and is a contemporary artist in various media. Together we have been working in 14KT, 18KT, and platinum exclusively since the ’70’s. We feel these traditional materials, afford a universal archetypal response which, linked with a comfortably wearable piece, creates a clean “canvas” that then allows us to design and tailor mass, form and texture which also must incorporate the technical constraints of the gemstones involved.