A 22 karat gold "Épi De Blé" collar, designed by Ronald McNamer for Zolotas, Greece, 1970
MAHNAZ COLLECTION - For the independent minded jewelry lover
YOU are seriously stylish, and, when adorned with our jewels of beauty and sensibility, versatility and joy, imagination and wearability, you are always uniquely yourself.
MAHNAZ COLLECTION is New York City’s trusted Gallery for select, original, and collectible modern-vintage and contemporary jewels made mainly since 1960 by designers, artists, and gold/silversmiths who have transformed jewelry design and provoked new questions about concepts of beauty and value in jewelry.
WE ARE KNOWN FOR
Our knowledge-based jewelry collections - the depth of our design and cultural research and the distinctive jewels and jeweler histories we identify and source in a wide range of collecting areas. When brought together, these jewelry collections, covering a geography from Helsinki to Hopi, tell important stories, including the unique story of modernism’s multifaceted writ, alongside the power of cultural traditions and ancient motifs in the world of jewelry. This is MAHNAZ COLLECTION’s contribution to jewelry history and part of every purchase made by a client.
We are recognized for our expertise on the jewelry made by forward-looking, independent designers, goldsmiths, and artists from North and South America, including Indigenous Peoples; and from Europe, Britain, and the Nordic Countries after WWII. In particular, we are specialists in the works of the London avant-garde jewelers most active during 1960-1980, including Andrew Grima, John Donald, George Weil, Charles de Temple, and Louis Osman, creator of the modernist Investiture Coronet for Charles, Prince of Wales now King Charles III.
We are known as a specialist and significant collector of jewelry made by Maison Chaumet during the 1960s and 1970s and designed by Pierre Sterle and Rene Morin, some of it for the unique L’Arcade collection, appealing to the more on-trend, design-conscious, younger buyers of the times.
We invest in once known, lost-to-history jewelers, and important contemporary jewelers who are not fully recognized - from Angelo Giorgio Cazzaniga in Rome during the 1950s to Indigenous Native American artist-makers or art jewelers, today. We invest in research, publications, and exhibitions for these makers because their exceptional artistry and craftsmanship, their design ideas and story telling, merit collectors, museum interest, and the affections of a wide array of jewelry lovers. We actively sell their important works.
Our business model preserves and re-uses existing modern-vintage jewels and thereby contributes broadly to a more sustainable environment. We also partner with contemporary jewelers who seek and create alternatives to detrimental mining and gem extraction; and we hear the voices of Indigenous peoples whose attitudes towards Nature, animals and raw materials, may differ from those of many of us, from governments and non-profits.
MAHNAZ COLLECTION SELLS
Distinctive, one-of-a-kind, boundary-shifting, modernist works.
Signed vintage design classics from independent jewelers and high houses.
Artist-made works of conceptual excellence, technical virtuosity, and material boldness.
Museum-quality Indigenous southwestern Native American jewelry.
Important jewels by pioneering women artists and designers
The stylish jewels of the 1960s and 1970s that best represent these decades of radical change. Then, jewelers connected with Nature most directly, embraced yellow gold and textured surfaces, and focused on futurism.
Finely crafted jewels of a quality that is difficult to find today; and hand-made jewels as opposed to the dominant machine-made, CAD design jewelry of today and tomorrow.
Treasured gems worth keeping in the family, sealing a promise, and passing on to your loved ones, imbued with your stories, passion and legacy.
