The Jewelry Storyteller — How One Designing Woman is Turning Heads From Florence to New York

Call Temple St Clair a jewelry designer and she'll respond, "I am still learning to be a jewelry designer, but I am a storyteller." Both the jewelry industry and one of the world's most vaunted museums disagree with her humble assessment - to them, she is a jewelry designer of the highest order That same year, Barney's New York took notice of her jewelry and St.

Clair became the first fine jeweler to be represented and carried in the storied New York department store St Clair has been working with the same goldsmiths in Florence for over 30 years, which is remarkable as St.

Clair laments they are a dying breed The New York Times recently chronicled the story of "The Last Jeweler on the Ponte Vicchio," but St Clair is doubling down on Florence.

"Opening a boutique on the famed Ponte Vicchio is a remarkable, yet somehow logical turn of events, as Florence was the birthplace of my brand and another catalyst to my creative life," St Clair says For Silk Road, St.

Clair was inspired by the ancient network of roads that connected the East and West "As a lifelong traveler I have always been fascinated by the Silk Road and the ideal it upheld of wildly different cultures merging and shaping one another," St Clair says. Source