On 1stDibs find a collection of vintage Barry Kieselstein-Cord belts, earrings, bracelets, handbags and other jewelry and accessories. His designs have found their way into the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey, Sir Elton John, Jack Nicholson, Barack Obama and Giorgio Armani are all known collectors of Kieselstein-Cord’s work. Names like Henry Dunay and Kieselstein-Cord are being reappraised as icons of contemporary design. On today’s secondary market, those 1980s-era designs are enjoying a resurgence. During this decade he designed much-lauded belt buckles, and some of his most sought-after collections - including Crocodile, Pompeii and Borgia - followed a decade later.

It was also around this time that the designer began to work with fashion titans Perry Ellis and Calvin Klein.īy the late 1970s, Kieselstein-Cord had begun to integrate gold and gemstones into his work. Kieselstein-Cord’s partnership with the legendary Danish silverware firm meant that his work would reach an international audience. Kieselstein-Cord designed his first sterling silver collection in 1972, and a year later, the collection was presented for sale at Georg Jensen’s Manhattan flagship store. ”I don’t make jewelry I do sculptures for the body,” he has said. He has long been enamored of illustration, architecture, photography and other disciplines, and even as a world-renowned jeweler, Kieselstein-Cord has always considered his true identity as a sculptor. Kieselstein-Cord studied at Parsons School of Design and the American Craft Institute. Today he creates rings, necklaces and other jewelry and accessories so divine that they are as much wearable sculptures as they are personal adornment. Kieselstein-Cord made more carvings, and eventually began to explore metalwork and craft jewelry in his teens. His hobby fueled what would become deep interests in Native American art and in the natural world around him. In fact, Kieselstein-Cord was proficient at carving by the time he was eight years old. Double Loop Chain Clip Eyeglass Holder- Clip Holder for Glasses- Eyeglass Chain- Eyeglass Holder Chain with Alligator Clips- Glasses Chain Ad vertisement by ATLanyards. In the mid-1950s, there were children who read comic books and built forts and then there was Barry Kieselstein-Cord, a now-critically acclaimed New York City–born jewelry designer whose early hobbies included carving totem poles.

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