
Jewels by D'eri has been designing and repairing jewelry for over 70 years. Ralph Scudieri started it all after immigrating to the once U.S. jewelry capital Providence RI from Foggia, Italy. He trained his son, also Ralph, who became an incredible master designer and jeweler, who trained his son, Michael from an early age. Over the years Michael crafted jewelry for clients like Jones New York, Warner Bros, Express, and east coast charms sensation Alex & Anni.
Today D'eri brings the family brand to a new generation in a new city. Originally, Jewels by D'eri was a thriving upscale costume jewelry design shop whose artwork has stood the test of time. Now our timeless fine jewelry designs can be yours, forged in Seattle from the experience of 3 generations of jewelry craft.
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Custom high karat yellow gold medallion. The high sheen of this piece caused the iPhone camera some difficulty focusing 📸
The final thickness, which as I recall was under a millimeter. (Not advisable, particularly in high karat gold which is soft, but the client insisted)
Jones New York commissioned this runway cuff and collar set. It needed to be sleek, clean and petite. I love this under this stated but commanding design.
This sea turtle series for Sea World was a blast. Engraving the texture of these pieces took an entire afternoon, but was totally worth it.
And the final piece with the 'tree' still attached. The tree is an impression of the channels of the mold left behind from where the liquid gold is inlet.
The desired shelf price vs material vs sheer practicality presented a unique trifecta of challenges. But, then you don't eat an elephant in one bite, right?
Octopus brooch that was intended to have a clear blue/purple, low sparkle enamel applied to the final pieces ✨
Ram Goblet Bottom - this piece presented a series of challenges, as the customer supplied the horns from another piece to plug into the cranium. Achieving this required accounting for size/compression variances through a multi material, multi step mold making process involving lost wax in phase 1 and then a further 3 phases of vulcanized rubber molds to arrive at 'production ready'. In the end, it worked out perfectly. Phew! What you see here is the original wax carving I created for the lost wax mold phase.