[Jewelry making - Article 00811] - Re: [Orchid] Salaries for Jewelry Designers

[Daniel Spirer]

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>     one would be hard-pressed to find a single soul who does not
>     consider David Yurman, Elsa Peretti and Jean Schlumberger
>     "designers". 

    No, actually you won't be hard pressed at all to find a single soul
    because I'm more than happy to state that David Yurman has about as
    much original design talent as a turtle. I'm also not a big fan of
    Elsa Peretti. David Yurman stole all of his ideas from a bunch of old
    Celtic designs and his greatest talent is the ability to patent
    unoriginal ideas and spend huge amounts of money defending those
    patents. I'm sorry, but torque necklaces and bracelets were made more
    than 1000 years ago and all he did was patent them. Elsa Peretti
    tends to be exceedingly simplistic and her designs can be easily
    duplicated by any first year jewelry student. 

>     Oh and by the way, these three had no formal jewelry training and
>     were never bench jewelers. 

    And that's why they have no real design talent in jewelry. They
    never spent any time on the bench. 75% of the people on Orchid have
    more design talent than either Peretti or Yurman. 

Daniel R. Spirer, G.G.
Daniel R. Spirer Jewelers, LLC
1780 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
daniel AT spirerjewelers.com
www.spirerjewelers.com

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