The Greenwich Ornamental Arts Society, based in 1985, is internet hosting a lecture on Monday, December 5 at 1:00pm on the quintessential American jeweler, David Webb, offered by Levi Higgs, Head of Archives and Model Heritage at David Webb, New York.

David Webb’s jewellery is synonymous with strikingly daring colours and enormous scale – and stays astonishingly standard in the present day, almost 50 years after the designer’s early loss of life in 1975. The tens of hundreds of sketches that David Webb left behind not solely doc his evolving type – however present his eponymous agency with a treasure trove of designs that has stored it in enterprise to this present day. Webb was one in all America’s premier postwar jewelers and his designs have been largely tailor-made to a younger and classy clientele with a rising style for a extra informal type in girls’s style. Though most generally celebrated for his animal bracelets, which started regular manufacturing in 1963 and stay the corporate’s best-selling items, Webb’s subject material different broadly, as did his alternative in stones. Coloration was of paramount significance to Webb. This was evident in his use of brightly coloured enamels and treasured and semiprecious stones corresponding to coral,turquoise and jade, elevating their significance and incorporating them into jewellery suited to each informal and night gown.

The lecture shall be held within the Parish Corridor of Christ Church, 254 East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, at 1:00pm, Monday, December 5, and shall be adopted by afternoon tea. Friends welcome: $25 examine or money payable on the door.

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