{"id":95,"date":"2021-11-10T14:14:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test1.local\/?p=95"},"modified":"2022-07-07T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T12:55:56","slug":"the-accidental-jeweler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/the-accidental-jeweler\/","title":{"rendered":"The Accidental Jeweler"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"95\" class=\"elementor elementor-95\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4466524 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"4466524\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3156d65d\" data-id=\"3156d65d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a63480a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4a63480a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.2 - 23-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>By Pam Bristow<\/p><p>I once asked my friend Temple St. Clair how she\u2019d like to die. She responded without hesitation. \u201cSwallowed by a large predator.\u201d<\/p><p>Thus begins the slow but steady intoxication by one of America\u2019s most highly coveted jewelry designers.<\/p><p>To start with the obvious, she is strikingly attractive, Titian-haired and poised, assured yet delicate \u2013 a sort of 21<sup>st\u00a0 <\/sup>century John Singer Sargeant specimen. There is her effortless style, that of a woman who can take a man\u2019s white shirt from the beach to the ballroom with a belt and some healthy bravado.<\/p><p>And then there\u2019s the name, in which artistry or fame seems pre-programmed.\u00a0 But the most beguiling thing about Temple is the sense that she is many things \u2013 a storyteller, an adventurer, a traveler, a dreamer &#8211; who happens to be an artist, who happens to be a jeweler. It\u2019s as though she could have chosen any path in life with her brand of curiosity, passion and grace, and created just as marvelous a body of work.<\/p><p>Despite being only the third American jewelry designer to be inducted into the permanent collection of the Louvre Museum in Paris \u2013 taking her place alongside Louis Comfort Tiffany and Alexander Calder \u2013 Temple imbues her work with a spirit that goes beyond craftsmanship and composition. While her rare colored gemstones and pristine Florentine workmanship may captivate the connoisseur, it\u2019s her intimacy with the mystical that moves the most devout Temple St. Clair collector. She has been aptly described as having an \u201dartist\u2019s eye and explorer\u2019s heart,\u201d evidenced by a fascination with the cosmos and mythology and an obsession with nature that define her work.<\/p><p>A glimpse into her childhood reveals a coming-of-age ripe with awe and wonder for the world that surrounded her. \u201cI was an only child. My mother read to me a lot. It opened my mind to other worlds and taught me to appreciate storytelling. I started to explore how things work both emotionally and scientifically.\u201d This early support for art and science peaked a young Temple\u2019s interest in marine biology. Initially taken in by the beautiful and colorful world of the sea, she became fixated on plankton, wanting to study it, its structure and composition. Christmases spent exploring the ocean reefs in Mexico fueled her fascination, while summers found her in Europe immersed in the arts. On these trips, she was made to keep a journal and a sketchbook, a habit that has stayed with her throughout her life. She would take language classes before the trips to deepen her experiences abroad.<\/p><p>Family time at home wielded its own influence. She cites her maternal grandmother, in particular, as a formative force. \u201cShe traveled a great deal when it was unusual for women to be so independent. She did the Grand Tour and visited Tutankhamun\u2019s tomb in Egypt. She studied in Paris, played shuffleboard with F. Scott Fitzgerald and rode horseback through the grounds of Versailles. Her home was a three-dimensional scrapbook of her travels and experiences, filled with fossils, shells, textiles and other lovingly collected items. My grandmother lived in a English manor style house (as Virginians, we have always looked towards England and our English roots) but it was never stuffy. \u201cHer home always felt interesting and cool.\u201d St. Clair remembers one tradition quite fondly. \u201cWe were always encouraged to write and draw. We would have these after-dinner sketching sessions. Even my father, who was not artistically inclined, would draw.\u201d She speaks of an \u201cAunt Archer\u201d who held a PhD in art history, went to Rome on a Fulbright scholarship and participated in early Christian artifact digs in Rome.<\/p><p>As a teenager all Temple wanted was to get out of Roanoke, where her outsized experiences for a girl her age branded her a misfit. She decided to go away to school, finishing high school in Switzerland. \u201cAll of a sudden there I was, this preppy southern girl dropped into this international experience. I studied French during this time in Lausanne, but also became interested in Italian.\u201d This interest led to a Masters degree in the language. A PhD, however, felt too narrow and deep for the explorer and wanderer.<\/p><p>Jewelry, she would soon find, would become her vehicle for exploring the many different subjects that captivated her. \u201cI didn\u2019t choose jewelry design or manufacturing; it developed more as of a way of living than a way of working, a place where I could address all these different interests.\u201d<\/p><p>Despite the level of technical craftsmanship required to realize her designs, St. Clair was never formally trained. As she tells it, while living in Italy her mother gave her an antique coin that she wanted set into a necklace. \u201cI crossed into the world of these goldsmiths and became really enraptured in the history of gold, the global history of jewelry, and I\u2019ve been in it ever since.\u201d<\/p><p>Many designers take inspiration from history or the natural world, but what makes Temple unique is her fascination with our place in it. She has often spoken of herself as a jewelry anthropologist with a mission to bring profound beauty, quality, meaning and connectivity to the world:<\/p><p>\u201cHistorically our jewelry is a vehicle for research, exploration and discovery. There is a narrative that flows through all the jewels and collections from an exploration of the cosmos and all its mythology in the Celestial Collection to a deep love of the natural world, both land and water, in the Tree of Life Collection. From the fine jewelry that is found on our site and in stores to the high jewelry and limited-edition jewels crowned by rare color gems, to the haute couture work as in the Golden Menagerie, our collectors connect to a sense of the universal stories that connect us all cross-culturally.\u201d<\/p><p>As the business and artist have matured, so has the brand\u2019s ethos and sense of responsibility. \u201cTemple St. Clair draws infinite inspiration from the natural world, and we believe it is our duty to help protect the planet in every way that we can\u2026 the jewels now represent so much more regarding philanthropy and impact management,\u201d she shares.<\/p><p>With her husband and business partner Paul, St. Clair is deepening her engagement with community, conservation and the arts. In just the last year the brand has supported and brought attention to an East Village food bank; a local New York City organization supporting LGBTQ youth; two groups based in Kenya that support wildlife and wildlands conservation through employment of the local Maasai community; and to the dance community in New York City including New York City Ballet, NY Live Arts and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Recently certified by the Responsible Jewellery Council, the company has put into place a fully audited system to ensure an ethical supply chain with regard to human rights and environmental issues.<\/p><p>A study of Temple also reveals something deeper, a life we all quietly seek &#8211; despite our chosen path, to have our work be a vehicle for who we truly are. \u201cI am still learning to be a jewelry designer, but I <em>am<\/em> a storyteller.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dcffd45 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"dcffd45\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 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