| Steven Douglas has been making things with his hands since building model airplanes on the kitchen table as a child. In his early teens, family friends introduced the Douglas family to rock hounding and lapidary (the craft of shaping and polishing rocks and gems), which fit well with their frequent camping trips.
With stones in hand, Steven attended his first jewelry class in 1972 at Sir Francis Drake High in San Anselmo, California. Steven then continued his jewelry and arts education at Marin Community College in Kentfield, while working part-time in small jewelry manufacturing concerns around the San Francisco Bay Area.
In 1979 Steven applied for a position as a goldsmith’s apprentice at fine jewelry store in Sonoma, California where he studied under master goldsmith John Stephan Garfolo and, like Elyse, took advantage of advanced training at the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco.
From 1983 to 1988 Steven worked in Santa Rosa, California for Larry Williams Manufacturing Jewelers, where he learned a more traditional style of jewelry making in contrast to the very modern style of John Garfolo.
Having been born in Heidelberg, Germany while his father was in the Army, Steven developed a fascination with the German tradition of quality craftsmanship. While working and studying in the San Francisco Bay Area, he gravitated toward German-trained designers and goldsmiths.
Steven tends to be more the technician for the store, whereas Elyse is the lead designer. When Steven does design his own jewelry, he likes to juxtapose simple forms and complex methods of construction, emphasizing the natural beauty of the materials and building in mysteries and secrets to be discovered beyond the first impression. |
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