Across The Pond
Lindsay Philipson is from the UK and is the face behind Prescious
Violet and the artisan collective The Design Platform.
H
ow long has Precious
Violet been up and running and where did the
name come from?
My relationship with jewellery
has an odd history. Like most
women I like jewellery and
feel naked without earrings in
particular. When my mother
retired from work she began
buying old broken strands of
vintage beads from charity
shops and antique fairs, rethreading or redesigning them
and then getting on the bus
to a local seaside resort once a
month where she sold them to
a very nice antique shop. But
she kept the best for herself or
gave them to my sister and I ,
and when she died in 2001 we
inherited a large hoard of gorgeous old beads and crystals.
When my daughter Sarah
was about to get married in
the summer of 2008 I looked
around for jewellery to match
my plain violet coloured dress
and jacket - but not the average chain store, mass produced
stuff with tacky plastic beads.
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