Our owner Julia, manager Carole, and Carole’s Blythe doll Allie met with designer Jill Schwartz at a gift show in NYC recently.
She had a gorgeous booth showcasing her jewelry and housewares.
Jill’s career as a jewelry designer started when she was 3 years old. Forbidden to have pierced ears, she resorted to gluing beads to her ears. The daughter of two designers, she definitely has design in her blood. Here Julia points out her favorite things in Jill’s booth:
While Jill’s design education from Cornell and Pratt gave her discipline, it was her travels through Europe in her early 20s that ignited her passion. Her love for shopping led her to bead stores, and her talent for putting them together in unique ways found her her first admirers as she traveled on trains. She realized that she could be making money to buy her an extra day in Europe. That extra day turned into a year, and Elements/Jill Schwartz was born.
You’ll no longer find her jewelry sold on the beaches of Mykonos or hawked at cafés in Amsterdam. Her company’s brands are now sold in boutiques around the world, such as, ahem, Eye’s Gallery in Philadelphia ;)
Jill is known for mixing unusual vintage and modern materials. Her pieces are very whimsical, nostalgic, fresh, sophisticated and well, to die for.
Elements jewelry has been worn by celebrities for years and featured in magazines like InStyle, Lucky, Teen Vogue and Redbook, among others.
We expect these pieces to quickly find loving homes among our lovely customers so if you fall in love with something you see in these photos here from Eye’s, act swiftly!
Besides the pieces photographed here, we have more Elements/Jill Schwartz jewelry in the store for your browsing delight.
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