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Mahnaz Collection is New York City’s trusted gallery for collectors of original+ influential jewelry made by visionary designers, artists, and gold + silversmiths from the 1950s onwards.

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 masters and underappreciated Indigenous artist jewelers while respecting their cultural boundaries.

Mahnaz Collection is known for

Collectible, distinctive, one-of-a-kind, design-led modernist jewelry.

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

Versatile, often handmade, wearable jewelry.

Boundary-shifting modern works of conceptual and material diversity.

Innovative works by contemporary jewelry artists, artisans and goldsmiths.

Jewelry made by pioneering women artists and designers.

Indigenous Native American jewelry of museum quality with a significant collector base and public profile.

A gallery space which hosts exhibitions, artists’s talks, and provides access to 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” jewels you desire. Chat with us about everything from the provenance of a jewel to a change of clasp.

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

 

Afro Basaldella Alice Cicolini Amy Lemaire Andrew Grima Angela Cummings Annamarie Zanella Arnaldo Pomodoro Art Smith Arthur King Björn Weckström Boucheron Bulgari Carmen Tapia Cartier Cazzaniga Charles De Temple Charles Loloma Chaumet Christopher Thompson Royds Claire Falkenstein Claude Lalanne David Morris David Thomas David Watkins E.R. Nele Edith Tsabetsaye Elsa Peretti Ettore Sottsass Eveli Sabatie Franco Cannilla Frank Patania Sr Friedrich Becker Gabriel & Roger Lucas Gail Bird And Yazzie Johnson Georg Jensen George Weil Georges Lenfant Gerda Flöckinger Giampaolo Babetto Gio Caroli Giorgio Facchini H. Fred Skaggs Hans Hansen Hans Richter Haroldo Burle Marx Hemmerle Jacqueline Rabun Jacqueline Ryan Jean Després Jesse Monongya John Paul Miller Julia Obermaier Karl Stittgen Klaus Ullrich Kutchinsky Lalaounis Larry Golsh Lee Yazzie Leekya Duyuse Lella Vignelli Lucifer Vir Honestus By Luna Scamuzzi Maison Gerard Margaret De Patta Mary Kretsinger Mauboussin Mckee Platero Mirko Basaldella Nanna Ditzel Norbert Peshlaka Paloma Picasso Paolo Spalla Pat Pruitt Preston Monogye Raymond Sequaptewa Raymond Yazzie Richard Chavez Roberto Burle Marx Sigurd Persson Solange Azagury-Partridge Sophia Vari Tapio Wirkalla Tiffany & Co Tone Vigeland Van Cleef & Arpels Verma Nequatewa (Sonwai) Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe Wendy Ramshaw Zaha Hadid Zolotas And Other Important Makers.

 

Mahnaz Collection builds in-house jewelry collections over time, accompanied by informational and scholarly materials, original research catalogs, and exhibitions. We work closely with individual clients to initiate and develop their own collections.

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 new ways of working with traditional materials and also new materials and technologies, transforming ideas of what jewelry could be; and, related intimately to their time’s art, architecture, and social movements.

Our Gallery values sustainability as a goal for the jewelry industry. We sell fine vintage jewelry because we value preserving and reusing existing works of excellence, integrity, and beauty. We also exhibit contemporary jewelers who increasingly use fair-mined gold and other environmentally protective materials. We carry heritage houses, and we have artist-made and design-led modernist jewels. A few of the makers are lost to history, or they used less precious materials, or their makers have yet to make their names. Yet, these too are essential contributors to jewelry's culture, past, and future and, as such, collectible.

Quite a few collectible jewels are price-point accessible, so please browse the collections or visit our Gallery - or call us to chat. 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.

18-karat gold link bracelets, by Franco Cannilla for Masenza, Italy, circa 1950.

Each jewel created by a maker tells a story. She imagines, draws, casts, or actually makes it from start to finish. Each designer is both 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 you 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 found in Mahnaz Collection in the Makers Biographies listed on the Menu Bar.

A copper neckpiece, prototype for Sister Silver neckpiece, by Art Smith, USA, circa 1975.

An ebony, Vermillion wood, Lone Mountain turquoise, lapis, gold and sterling silver height inlay cuff, by Sonwai, Hopi Pueblo, USA 2020.

The catalog pages below are taken from London Originals, a work of original research published in 2016 on the flowering of a 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.

London Originals, Exhibition Catalog by Mahnaz Isaphani Bartos

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, in the image above. Visitors almost always discover unexpected treasures on a visit to our gallery.

We are open by appointment, Monday - Friday, except holidays. Please get in touch with us at 212-717-1159 with inquiries. Our Madison Avenue Gallery welcomes you.

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A diamond and 18-karat gold watch bracelet, with quartz movement, by Chopard, Switzerland, circa 1970.

A diamond and 18-karat gold watch, by Schlegel and Plana, Switzerland, circa 1970.

A diamond and 18-karat gold ring, Italy.