MAHNAZ COLLECTION is New York City’s trusted gallery for original, authentic + influential modern vintage and contemporary jewelry by designers, artists, and gold/silversmiths, made since the 1950s - mostly.

The Gallery develops authentic jewelry collections through a design-centric, knowledge-based, and cultural lens. The jewelry, mainly from North and South America, Europe, Britain, and the Nordic Countries, carries the ideas, practice and stories of transformative designers and artists; it recovers those of lost or once-known jewelers, especially Indigenous artist makers, while respecting their cultural boundaries.

MAHNAZ COLLECTION is known for

Distinctive, one-of-a-kind, modernist (1960- ) jewelry.

Finely crafted, signed, vintage design classics from high houses and independent jewelers.

Innovative works by contemporary art jewelers.

Boundary-shifting bold works of conceptual excellence and material diversity.

Versatile, handmade, wearable jewelry.

Indigenous Native American works made by jewelers with a significant collector base as well as the new generation. Th Gallery emphasizes makers from the U.S. Southwest.

Jewelry made by pioneering women artists and designers.

Exhibitions, publications, artists’s talks, and a library of books, original jewelry drawings, and catalogs.

Curious?

Clients tell us they almost always discover unexpected treasures on a visit to our gallery.

Contact us today for a unique Madison Avenue Gallery jewelry experience; sign up for our Newsletter, or make a Zoom appointment to “try on” the jewels you desire. We also buy jewelry with appropriate discretion so please call us if that is your interest.

Email: studio@mahnazcollection.com
DM: @mahnazcollection
Phone: 212-717-1169

The Gallery develops authentic jewelry collections through a design-centric, knowledge-based, and cultural lens. The jewelry collections, mainly from North and South America, Europe, Britain, and the Nordic Countries, carry the ideas, practice and stories of transformative designers and artists; they recover those of lost or once-known jewelers, especially Indigenous artist makers, while respecting their cultural boundaries.

Our specialty is the jewelry of the 1960s and 1970s. Then, makers in places as diverse as London, Rio, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Rome, Padua, and the southwestern United States began to explore specific new ways of working towards nature, with traditional materials and new materials and technologies, transforming ideas of what jewelry could be, and relating intimately to their time’s art, architecture, and social movements.

Materials matter in jewelry design, so while our collections often showcase yellow gold, an ancient, malleable, and enduring material, you will find important works in silver, wood, glass, steel, copper, brass, hardstones, and gemstones, titanium, zirconium, ceramic, paper, synthetics, and more.

Our Gallery values sustainability as a goal for the jewelry industry. We value preserving and reusing existing works of excellence, integrity, and beauty; we also exhibit contemporary jewelers increasingly using fair-mined gold and other environmentally protective materials.

We believe as many people as possible should have access to good jewelry, so quite a few of our jewels may be price-point accessible, so please browse the collections, visit our Gallery - or call us to chat about your interests.

Each jewel created by a maker tells a story. She imagines, draws, casts, or beads it from start to finish. Each designer is an idea-shaper and part of a particular community, history, and environment. Each handmade jewel is unique and personal to the maker. When you purchase a jewel, you not only add your own new and intimate personal experience to the jewel but also contribute to jewelry culture by handing the story of each jeweler’s career and hopes for their work, orally to the next generation. You can read more about the jewelers in Mahnaz Collection in the Artists/Designers/Goldsmiths section listed on the Menu Bar.

The catalog pages below are taken from London Originals, a work of original research published by the Gallery in 2016, about the flowering of the new urban modernist jewelry movement in London during the 1960s and 1970s. This jewelry design movement sought to transform its world alongside transformative movements in art, architecture, music, science, and society. Prominent names in this catalog include the curator Graham Hughes of Goldsmith Hall, the artist jeweler Wendy Ramshaw, and the modernist jewelry superstar Andrew Grima. Below are two large medallion pendants with art work in gold by the house of Kutchinsky in London.

We are open by appointment Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. except holidays.

Please call 212-717-1159 with inquiries. Our Madison Avenue Gallery welcomes you!