Mahnaz Collection - New York City’s trusted gallery for original+ influential modern vintage and contemporary jewelry collections by designers, artists, and gold/silversmiths, made mostly since the 1960s.

We develop authentic, inspired jewelry collections through a knowledgeable, cultured lens. The jewelry, mainly from North and South America, Europe, Britain, and the Nordic Countries, carries the ideas and stories of the finest designers and artists. It recovers those of lost or once-known jewelers and underappreciated Indigenous artist jewelers while respecting their cultural boundaries.

Mahnaz Collection is known for

Distinctive, one-of-a-kind, design-led modernist jewelry.

Finely crafted, signed, vintage design classics from high houses and independent jewelers.

Boundary-shifting bold works of conceptual excellence and material diversity.

Versatile, handmade, wearable jewelry.

Indigenous Native American jewelry of museum quality with a significant collector base and public profile. We specialize in promoting work by fine modern and contemporary Native American jewelers, emphasizing the U.S. Southwest.

Innovative works by contemporary jewelry artists, artisans, and goldsmiths.

Jewelry made by pioneering women artists and designers.

A welcoming gallery space that hosts exhibitions, artists’s talks, and a library of books, original jewelry drawings, and catalogs.

Curious?

Contact us today for a unique Madison Avenue Gallery jewelry experience, sign up for our Newsletter, or make a Zoom appointment to “try on” the jewels you desire.

Please feel free to call us about anything from selling your jewelry, to determining a jewel’s provenance to changing a clasp.

Email: studio@mahnazcollection.com
DM: @mahnazcollection
Phone: 212-717-1169

Mahnaz Collection builds in-house jewelry collections with informational and scholarly materials, original research catalogs, and exhibitions.

Our specialty is the design-led, modern jewelry of the 1960s and 1970s. Then, makers in places as diverse as London, Rio, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Rome, Padua, and the southwestern United States began to explore specific new ways of working towards nature, with traditional materials and new materials and technologies, transforming ideas of what jewelry could be and relating intimately to their time’s art, architecture, and social movements.

Our Gallery values sustainability as a goal for the jewelry industry. We sell heritage houses and fine vintage jewelry because we value preserving and reusing existing works of excellence, integrity, and beauty. We also exhibit contemporary jewelers increasingly using fair-mined gold and other environmentally protective materials. We prioritize artist-made and design-led modernist jewels. A few of the makers are lost to history or were once known, or their makers have yet to make their names. Yet, given the quality of their ideas and craftsmanship, these are essential contributors to jewelry’s culture.

Quite a few of our collectible jewels are price-point accessible, so please browse the collections, visit our Gallery - or call us to chat about your interests. 212-7117-1159.

We are interested in how materials are chosen and used in jewelry design, so you will find that while our core collections often showcase yellow gold, an ancient, malleable, and enduring material, you will also find important works in silver, wood, glass, steel, copper, brass, hardstones, and gemstones. Titanium, zirconium, ceramic, paper, synthetics, and other materials are also used. by the makers in our collections.

Each jewel created by a maker tells a story. She imagines, draws, casts, or makes it from start to finish. Each designer is an idea-shaper and part of a particular community, history, and environment. Each handmade jewel is unique and personal to the maker. When you purchase a jewel, you not only add your own new and intimate personal experience to the jewel but also contribute to jewelry culture by handing the story of each jeweler orally to the next generation. You can read more about the extraordinary jewelers in Mahnaz Collection in the Artists + Designers + Goldsmiths listed on the Menu Bar.

The catalog pages below are taken from London Originals, a work of original research published in 2016 on the flowering of the new urban modernist jewelry movement in London during the 1960s and 1970s. The movement sought to transform its world alongside transformative movements in art, architecture, music, science, and society. Prominent names in this catalog include the curator Graham Hughes of Goldsmith Hall, the artist jeweler Wendy Ramshaw, and the modernist jewelry superstar Andrew Grima.

We carry classic Heritage House and collectible mid-20th-century gold jewelry, as in the image below, and unique artist jewels by makers such as Art Smith and Verma Nequetewa (Sonwai). Visitors almost always discover unexpected treasures on a visit to our gallery.

We are open by appointment Monday through Friday, except holidays. Please call 212-717-1159 with inquiries. Our Madison Avenue Gallery welcomes you.

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