Mahnaz Collection opens a four-day selling exhibition for NYCJW, showcasing, for the first time, over 100 jewels curated from across Europe and the Americas, including Native America, from the post-World War II period 1950 – 1980. The Gallery is best known for this concentration by collectors, curators, scholars, and jewelry lovers. The exhibit will illuminate some core international themes and varieties of local experience in pioneering modernist jewelry made during 1950-1980. It will show original and influential avant-garde jewelry created by independent artists, designers, and High House jewelers, working during a largely understudied period of global jewelry history. The jewelers in the show include those for whom it was a sole calling – artists, sculptors, and architects who made jewelry for a time, and jewelry designers who practiced across fields ranging from landscape architecture and furniture design to silverware and glass. The social movements of the time directly affected their jewelry. The youth movement, the movement to liberate women, and early conservation & environmentalism were among them. See the show to learn more!
Featured Makers Include: Chaumet, Boucheron, Mellerio, Björn Weckström, George Weil, Charles Loloma, Roberto Burle Marx, Sigurd Persson, Tapio Wirkkala, Wendy Ramshaw, Eveli Sabatie, Richard Chavez, Art Smith, Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, Gerda Flöckinger, Mirko Basaldella and Giorgio Facchini.
In 2023, Mahnaz Collection is celebrating its tenth year in business. It is New York City’s trusted gallery for original, influential, and collectible vintage jewelry by designers, artists, and goldsmiths. It has a growing interest in more contemporary works. The Gallery is woman-founded and managed with a diverse team. Mahnaz Collection is best known for its mid-20th century European and Americas-made jewelry by forward-looking, independent jewelers and select heritage houses. Significant attention is paid to revealing lost or under-recognized icons. Dr. Ispahani Bartos stresses the Gallery’s role as a knowledge portal, emphasizing research and scholarship. It publishes original catalogs and mounts formal jewelry exhibitions to illuminate the histories and cultures of jewels and jewelers. Dr. Ispahani Bartos holds a BA in the Liberal Arts from Wellesley College, Phi Beta Kappa; an M.A.L.D. and a Ph.D. in International Relations (International Security Studies), from The Fletcher School, Tufts University. She has had prior careers as a policy analyst and scholar of international security, authored books and other publications, and worked for 15 years as an executive in professional philanthropy. Outside her family, her loves are learning, friendships, books, French bulldogs - and of course jewelry.
