Penny Preville Jewelry is a Beautiful Link to the Past
Written by Fabian Toulouse on May 14th, 2008If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
The desire for women to adorn themselves with rich things goes way back into the dim reaches of our past. It was not the ancient Egyptians who thought it up, nor the Romans or Greeks. They are “newbies” compared to the earliest jewelers! Archaeology has unearthed mollusk shells in South Africa having drilled holes for stringing. The date? 100,000 years B.C.! Almost from the time people decided clothes might be a wise choice, women revealed the instinct to accessorize!
The word jewelry has a Latin root meaning “plaything.” How appropriate! What better toy for a grown woman than a stunning diamond bracelet or maybe a pair of tinkling scrollwork earrings. Penny Preville always adored jewelry. Some of her earliest memories are of playing with her grandmother’s jewelry. Naturally artistic, she went from playing with jewelry to designing it.
For almost thirty years she has been an award-winning designer in the jewelry business, and her designs are sought out by some of the world’s most celebrated beauties. “Penny pieces,” as her fans call them, have been seen on such captivating women as , Felicity Huffman, and Maria Menounos.
Interested in jewelry designs of the past, Preville moved from an early interest in the Byzantine era and works inspired by the Middle Ages to her present interest in late 19th and early 20th century eras. Today’s pieces shows the influence of Edwardian, Art Deco, and Art Nouveau periods. Feminine, intricate, and delicate, her work is lush in detail. Curlicues, swirls, and flowers intertwine, calling to mind Celtic knots or perhaps of rose windows on a cathedral.
The timeless beauty of Penny Preville’s work is easily apparent. These are pieces that surpass time and trends. Her intuition for knowing what women want before they know they want it has kept her at the top of her trade. She has a real affinity for her customers rarely seen by designers, and women love her for it.
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