Rebecca Schiffman is a jewelry designer in New York City. Her new “Upper East Side” Collection is inspired by architectural ornament in the neighborhood where she grew  up and where she currently bases her studio.

Schiffman began making jewelry for herself and for friends while attending the Cooper Union School of Art.  She graduated in 2004 and spent the summer interning for New York fashion label Proenza Schouler where she was encouraged to continue creating jewelry.

Schiffman’s first designs involved chainmail armor techniques she learned from various websites.  She named her first collection “IMK” after the “Ill-Made Knight,” Sir Lancelot’s epithet in T.H. White’s version of the Arthurian legend, “The Once and Future King.”

Schiffman went on to study ancient jewelry techniques at Jewelry Arts Institute (New York) and casting, mold and model making at Studio Jewelers, LTD (New York.) She currently studies wax carving with master model make Fred de Vos in New York.

Photo Credits:
Portrait on this page by Isabel Asha Penzlien.
Other photos on the site by Brandon Perlman, Kava Gorna and Evan Miller.
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