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What we do
The Zellerbach Collection offers a fresh, stunning and bold concept of body ornament that bends the line between jewelry and art. Each piece is hand formed and built to be a unique and striking adornment, endowed with a power of its own.
Continuous wire forms such as loops, spirals, and coils are inherently antennas as well as energy generators while traveling through a magnetic field (such as the Earth's). While Alexander Calder may have had an unconscious intent in his jewelry to harness these powerful qualities of wire forms (in light of his mobiles which harnessed another energy form- wind), the Zellerbach Collection's intent is perfectly deliberate. Thick, heavy gauge precious metal wire is hand worked into simple yet elegant shapes, each piece possessing a unique resonance that derives from its composition and structure as well as from its aesthetics.
No fire or heat of any kind is used in the fabrication of Zellerbach Collection pieces. Instead, ingenious alternative means of joining metals has been employed, such as rivets, and the jewelry designs are consequently as riveting as they are unique. Rivets offer more than an architectural look, they are also architectural in function. Additionally, all Zellerbach rivets are fully threaded for additional holding strength.
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Who we are
Born and raised here and there by single mom artist, Leta is at heart a gypsy who has always been immersed in the art world. She worked for the late painter, Gordon Onslow-Ford, where she might have been first taken by the many circles, lines and dots of (his) art, and of design in general.
Leta has expressed her creative and expressive energy through a life filled with passion for performing and teaching middle eastern and Flamenco dance, mixing perfumes, singing jazz and designing clothes. In addition to being a jewelry designer, she continues to live through her arts as the lead Flamenco singer with Flamenco Puro, the hottest new flamenco troupe in northern California. Previous jewelry fabrication experience and a can do attitude from this creative powerhouse come together to facilitate her genius in jewelry design.
Born and raised in San Francisco, Ca., Scott developed an interest in rocks and minerals at an early age that turned into an appreciation of gemstones and eventually into an estate jewelry enterprise that has entertained him for more than fifteen years. Scott has also been fascinated by electricity from an early age, and perhaps some of the inspirations for his jewelry designs originate from the electronic components inside the many radios, tape recorders, and other electrical devices he took apart as a youth (but never put back together, to the great dismay of his mother at the time).
Scott's educational and professional exposure to jewelry and metalworking techniques provided the means by which he opted to innovate something new and different for the discerning collector.
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