David Yurman
David Yurman took his basic twisted cable design and with the help of his wife turned it into a designer jewelry empire. David Yurman is a popular contemporary jewelry artist whose designs can be found in all the major upscale department stores such as Saks 5th Avenue and Neiman Marcus.
David Yurman originally studied sculpturing and came into the jewelry design business after a short artist career as sculptor. After positive reaction to an angel shaped copper belt buckle that he designed for his wife, Sybil, he created and sold additional belt buckle designs and started experimenting with wire and eventually crafted his signature design – that of a twisted cable.
His original twisted cable design was crafted into helix-shaped bracelets with jeweled terminators. Now this twisted cable design is incorporated into every piece of jewelry he designs. For example, his large cocktail rings are set with a twisted cable bezel and his link necklaces will alternate twisted cable links with smooth links.
This twisted cable design is similar to that of the ancient Celtic torc (also referred to as torque). A torc is simply a twisted wire neck ring that ends in terminators (caps at each end of the bracelet). These terminators many times resemble acorns.
Sybil Yurman was classically trained as a painter and using her knowledge of the color wheel and combining colors then became responsible for the selection and pairing of different colored gemstones for use in the terminators.
Yurman creates substantial karated gold and sterling silver pieces of jewelry. Due to the amount of precious metal, never mind the gemstones, used in each piece of jewelry his creations are quite pricey.
Visit the artists website to see all his spectacular designs. Yurman works with precious and semi-precious gemstones. Quite a few of his recent designs have put to use the semi-precious gemstone Citrine. He has also started working with Tahitian pearls and the effect is quite awesome.
Yurman on eBay – Forays into eBay lately show some listings for David Yurman jewelry. Purchasing David Yurman jewelry through ebay is definitely not recommended. There have been numerous instances of counterfeit jewelry being presented as original and the prices do not seem to actually be that much of a bargain.
Also beware of Yurman inspired jewelry. Some sites have listings where the jewelry is presented as being by David Yurman while the ‘inspired by’ is in small print.
Replica Yurman jewelry - research on the internet also shows various sites that carry designer jewelry replicas. For example, Overstock occasionally carries Yurman replica as does Amazon.