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What led you to your interest in the world of jewelry?
When I was little I spent many many hours, in temple, examining my mother’s jewelry — opening and closing clasps, examining stones, concentrating on the smallest things like I was a tiny ant tumbling in a field of gold, and at holidays, admiring how my beautiful, formidable grandmother wore rings on her strong fingers, and bracelets around her wrists. That’s still what I really love about jewelry — how it’s worn, how rings move and slip around and earrings sway.
Do you have a favorite piece of jewelry you've designed at Catbird?
Oh this is a very hard question, I love so many things we’ve made. I wear our Swan Lake and Pearl Moonflower rings all the time. I’m dreaming about a new pair of earrings that we only have one sample of.
What’s your favorite part about the New York creative community?
I’ve never really felt too much a part of a creative community, I’m a little bit on a cloud with my imaginary world of the past and present, but in New York it all feels animated all the time. So, walking to work, which is a solitary endeavor, is really just floating on the energy of all of us, of the bodega guy and the fruit vendor and that is the creative community I love.
What’s your favorite place in NYC?
My daughter’s bedroom. As for outside of my home, Emily's Pork Store for fizzy mineral water, taralli and Sicilian citrus jelly candies.
What’s inspiring you right now?
Reading. And women on the subway, Leonard Cohen, how my colleagues wear our work, lunch at Lodi, getting things done, thrifting, day trips, antique jewelry, stopping for a macchiato on the way to work, the Spanish ambassador’s wife in Madeline, picking one postcard at the museum.
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