[Jewelry making - Article 00001] - Re: [Orchid] What will people pay for...

[Peter W . Rowe]

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    It's nice to see instances where work is valued for it's creativity,
    artistic input, and the labor required to make it, rather than the
    all to common scenario where jewelry customers want to know "how much
    per gram?".    My thought, looking at your listed prices, is that
    these are likely production pieces done in at least editions, if not
    larger numbers, or the prices might well have had to be higher for
    true one of a kind items.  (remembering that the artist's share of
    those prices might easily have been only 40 or 50 percent.   Very
    often, jewelers use precious materials as much as a means to justify
    getting paid a decent amount of money for their work as they do
    because it's the right material for the job.  And there are a lot of
    very fine, artistically and technically competent works that get sold
    for too low a price because the materials are not deemed valuable
    enough, with buyers reluctant to pay for the aspect of the work
    that's the most valuable, the artists time and creativity.   They
    may grumble when their lawyer bills them a hundred fifty bucks an
    hour, but they pay it. Then their jeweler wants half that or less for
    his competent labor,  well trained design sense, and jewelry
    expertise,  and they balk.  but if that work is made in platinum, then
    they'll pay.  This is all too common, and frankly, a sad commentary
    on the buying public's tastes and awareness of what goes into good
    work.   So seeing work promoted as art and original and worth having
    just on those scores, regardless of the intrinsic value of the
    material, is refreshing and encouraging. 

Peter


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