Elsa Peretti: A Look Back at The Jewelry Designer’s Life and Work / Marion Fasel and Jonathan Wahl - The 92nd Street Y, New York
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Elsa Peretti: A Look Back at The Jewelry Designer’s Life and Work

Marion Fasel and Jonathan Wahl
Elsa Peretti
Elsa Peretti wearing her Bottle pendant with her dog in Sant Marti Vell, Spain, circa 1974. Photo by Hilda Moray.

A visionary, Elsa Peretti changed the jewelry landscape when she joined Tiffany in 1974.

Elsa Peretti is famous for her sleek Tiffany creations and her high-profile life among the fashion luminaries in New York during the 1970s. Find out much more about the designer, who died last month at 80, in this far-reaching conversation celebrating her fascinating life and singular creative process. Jewelry journalist and historian, Marion Fasel who interviewed Peretti numerous times, joins Jewelry Center Director Jonathan Wahl to review the designer’s passion for craftsmanship as well as the quirky, personal and often surprising stories that inspired all of her iconic work.

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Marion Fasel

Marion Fasel

Marion Fasel is the founder and editorial director of The Adventurine, an online magazine which covers every facet of fine jewelry …

Marion Fasel

Marion Fasel

Marion Fasel is the founder and editorial director of The Adventurine, an online magazine which covers every facet of fine jewelry from emerging designers to vintage treasures. She is also a jewelry historian and author of eight acclaimed books on 20th century styles including Bulgari: Serpenti Collection and Hollywood Jewels: Movies, Jewelry, Stars. Currently, Marion is guest curating the exhibition, Beautiful Creatures, which features exquisite historic and contemporary jewelry inspired by animals and is scheduled to open in the Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History in December, 2020.

Jonathan Wahl

Jonathan Wahl

Jonathan Wahl joined 92nd Street Y in July 1999 as director of the jewelry and metalsmithing program in 92Y's School of the Arts …

Jonathan Wahl

Jonathan Wahl

Jonathan Wahl joined 92nd Street Y in July 1999 as director of the jewelry and metalsmithing program in 92Y's School of the Arts. He is responsible for developing and overseeing a curriculum that has more than 55 classes weekly and 15 visiting artists yearly, hiring and supervising 25 faculty members, maintaining four state-of-the-art jewelry and metalsmithing studios, and promoting the department locally and nationally as a jewelry resource center. Wahl founded the only Jewelry residency in New York city for a Jeweler and oversees an active lecture program with notables from the Jewelry and Design worlds at 92Y. Biennially he organizes international trips to visit contemporary jewelers and historical collections across the globe.

Named one of the top-10 jewelers to watch by W Jewelry in 2006, Mr. Wahl is an accomplished artist who, from 1994 to 1995, served as artist-in-residence at Hochschule Der Kunst in Berlin, Germany. He has exhibited his work most recently in the exhibitions New York Silver Then and Now, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, Parallels, Jonathan Wahl & Sondra Sherman, Lamar Dodge Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Sentimental Ornamentation, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, Reverse: rewriting culture, Dot Fifty-One, Miami, FL, with Sienna Gallery, The Pulse Art Fairs in NYC and numerous other fairs, exhibitions, and venues.

He has been awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships one in Craft and one in Drawing in recognition of "Outstanding Artwork," and the Pennsylvania Society of Goldsmiths Award for "Outstanding Achievement." Part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the American Craft Museum. His work has been featured or reviewed in publications as diverse as the New York Times, Art in America, The New Yorker, Architectural Digest, Oprah Magazine, W Jewelry, Art Jewelry Forum, Metalsmith magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and the Advocate among others. Work can also be seen in 1,000 Rings and 500 Enameled objects both by Lark books. His drawings are represented by Sienna Patti Gallery. His Jewelry can be found at De Vera in NYC and Eagan Day in Philadelphia.

Before joining 92Y, Mr. Wahl was, first, director of the jewelry and metalsmithing department at the YMCA's Craft Students League, and later assistant director of the League itself. Mr. Wahl holds a BFA in jewelry and metalsmithing from Temple University's Tyler School of Art and an MFA in metalsmithing and fine arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is a member of the Society of North America Goldsmiths. A history fanatic and avid gardener, when he's not at 92Y motivating his students he can be found in his studio in Brooklyn or in his garden.

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