Annie Fensterstock – Jewelry by Design
Annie Fensterstock eludes neat and easy categorization because she is and does so many different things. She’s a young woman proficient in the technique of ancient goldsmithing, an inspired jewelry designer and craftsman, an artist who paints, sketches and has a design in mind for everything she sees or thinks about, a mother of two young girls with a boy very much impending, and the wife of business partner and indie film producer, Mike Romero. Her black sketchbooks – she has about 35 of them from the last 20 years or so – contain her quick renderings of clothing, houses, jewelry and just about anything that attracts her attention. They speak to her keen eye and to her fundamental connection to the world through art. There is art in her blood, figuratively and literally; indeed, her grandmother was the famous Margit Beck, cubist and famous abstract expressionist painter known, among other things, for her aerial landscapes. Annie grew up seeing, feeling and ultimately learning art in Margit’s studio. Her mother, as well, is an artist.
For the last five years, Annie has been designing, creating and selling her own collection of handmade jewels under her own name. Art and travel are her source of inspiration. Using no molds, wax carvings or castings, her jewelry is entirely hand fabricated, working from solid metal, creating every link of every chain by hand. Her pieces are made in 18 karat or 22 karat yellow or white gold and platinum. She favors diamonds that are unusual in color and sapphires of hot pinks and moody blues.
Every piece is one of a kind, and indeed, so is Annie. No pretense, no affectation – just Annie doing what comes naturally and what she loves to do. Pure and steadfast as the gold she smiths. Hirshleifers is proud to carry her collection of fine jewelry.
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