Ted Muehling has been designing jewelry and decorative objects inspired by organic forms found in nature since his graduation from Pratt Institute in 1975. With the help of a small staff in his New York City studio, Ted Muehling produces multiples as well as one-of-a-kind pieces using precious and semiprecious stones, metals, pearls, wood, and more. Ted Muehling is inspired by the ideals of his mentors to use the power of design to enhance life and appreciate form, proportion, and balance. Ted Muehling takes an artisanal approach by working directing with the materials, allowing for serendipitous surprises to occur. Each piece of jewelry is thoughtfully designed into unique and delicate works of art.
Renowned New York–based floral designer Lewis Miller presents a fresh take on the arrangement and display of flowers—discussing the approach to and the inspiration behind his lavish creations. Lewis Miller’s first book features lush, naturally lit still lifes of his beautiful arrangements and compositions. The designer, who has a background in horticulture and landscape design, describes his work as "sumptuous nature." Organized by key factors that are considered for each piece—color, composition, movement, shape, and texture—the book is elegantly illustrated with Don Freeman’s painterly photographs and explains, arrangement by arrangement, the thoughts and motivations that guided the process. Vivid images of brightly hued poppies, roses, hydrangeas, and tulips explode on each page. Miller also discusses his sources of inspiration, notably seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes. The images and words will give the reader a profound insight into the artistry of flower arranging—providing the impetus to create floral works of one’s own. Additional information will cover ways to handle and arrange flowers, prolong the life of an arrangement, and incorporate flowers into special occasions or simply into our everyday lives. The luxurious display of flowers will inspire and delight decorators, gardeners, brides-to-be, and connoisseurs of beauty.
Federico is an arbiter of taste, as evidenced in his work as a jewelry designer; a gallery owner and most recently as the author of De Vera Objects and De Vera Jewelry. Federico seeks beauty in the most unlikely places. He travels the world to find things that, “have absolutely nothing wrong with them,” a task that “is far more difficult than finding something that’s simply beautiful.” He constantly strives to find new lives for old things that have been discarded, and reinterprets them from a different point of view. Today his pieces are comprised of antique elements, often simultaneously organic and baroque…each unique and one of a kind.
Elizabeth Epley is a classically trained goldsmith and jewelry designer, specializing in 22 karat gold handmade jewelry. With a contemporary eye she employs ancient traditions to fuse master craftsmanship, simplicity of form and a reverence for nature. In addition to carving and lost wax casting she utilizes the time-intensive, two thousand year old, art of granulation, cabochon setting, and chain weaving. Elizabeth incorporates all of these to realize her unique vision.
An art historian by education, Elizabeth studied photography, sculpture and archaeology at home and abroad before beginning her career at the Gagosian Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Compelled to return to creating her own art, Elizabeth’s love of fabricating sculpture drew her to the alchemy of alloying gold, forming finely-detailed component parts and producing jewelry as small sculpture. Over the last three decades she has studied with the Jewelry Arts Institute, Master Goldsmith Louise Parrish and her mentor Bianca López at her studio, Bianca Lopez Studio of Jewelry Art and Design.
