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Laurel Vanguard
Renowned Jewelry Designer Dorian Webb Partners With Trystanne Cunningham to Kick Off a Joint Annual Effort to Laud Accomplished Women With One of a Kind Designed Necklaces
WRITTEN BY: CRISTINA DEPTULA PHOTO CREDIT: ERICA CERVANTEZ
Founder and CEO of her eponymous jewelry brand, Dorian Webb, considers jewelry a form of biography, telling the story of the chapters of our lives.
PATHWAY TO DISTINCTION
Creative since childhood, Webb began her career as an architect. She discovered that she enjoyed the experience of jewelry making even more than architecture because it allowed her to be hands-on throughout the entire process.
During her junior year at Yale, she visited Italy and bought glass beads inspired by Italy's long tradition of glassblowing. She formed them into jewelry to give to friends, and a photographer she'd hired brought her pieces to galleries, where they sold. Webb explains how one form of art feeds into the other: “Studying architecture at Yale really made me start to think in terms of composition and spatial relationships. There, the focus on creating spaces emphasized the experiential and the structure's connection to its community...
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