Seaman schepps biography
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"Seaman Schepps: A Century Of New York Jewelry Design" 2004 VAILL, Amanda and ZAPATA, Janet
VAILL, Amanda and ZAPATA, Janet
[204] pp.
The Vendome Press
2004
11 1/4" x 11 1/4"
Fine/ Fine
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Dazzling and celebrity-filled, this survey of the life, times, and works of Seaman Schepps (1881-1972), one of New York's greatest jewelers, is being published to accompany an important exhibition of his stunning designs. A true original, Schepps created eye-popping jewels that fused exotic materials with a sexy style and captured the imagination of trend-setting American women.
An immigrant's son from New York's Lower East Side, Schepps rose to prominence by creating designs that defied all previous ideas of what jewelry should look like. Witty-even outrageous-and wildly flattering, Schepps's jewelry stood for style more than wealth. Featured on the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Look, and other magazines, it appealed to an enormous range of clients, from the duchess of Windsor to Andy Warhol. Today, more than 20 years after his death, his work has inspired a legion of new collectors, who seek out vintage rings, bracelets, earrings, compacts, and lipstick cases, and the firm continues to produce splendid pieces based on the original designs. T
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Seaman SCHEPPS (1881 – 1972)
As the son of immigrants, Seaman Schepp’s humble beginnings led him to sit outside the boutique of quintessential New York jeweller David Wedd and sketch drawings for his own designs. Around the turn of the century, Schepps found a job as a traveling salesman in Los Angeles and San Francisco and opened his first store in LA selling antiques, jewellery and precious objects.
Over the next thirty years, he slowly gained experience in the jewellery trade and in 1931 he opened a shop on Madison Avenue in New York, which would go on to become his most successful venture.
Inspired by trips to fashion capital Paris as well as seeing the work of Verdura at Chanel, Belperron at Boivin and Toussaint at Cartier, Schepps soon began designing his own jewellery rather than retailing the work of others.
During the next twenty years Schepps’s work became immensely successful and business boomed. He favoured chunky pieces, irregularly set with semi-precious, multi coloured gem stones rather than diamonds. Whimsical designs depicting sea life and animals, chunky curb link bracelets and cuff bangles set with pleasing colour combinations became his signature look.
Schepps retired in the late 1960s and his daughter took control of the firm. In 1992
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Seaman Schepps
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