Designer-name jewelry. Fine jewelry trunk shows. Jewelry boutiques. High-profile promotions. Classic floral jewelry.
Peter Lindeman – one of the first brand-name designers – has done it all. Now, this veteran craftsman is pondering a new challenge: How does an artist say good-bye to his public while preserving his work and his name for posterity?
“After all,” he says, “when I’m gone, there may still be 'Peter Lindeman’ jewelry but no more original Peter Lindeman creations.”
Classics. For more than four decades, Lindeman has been consistent in his designs – classic styling that is timeless and unique. “These will never be out of style,” he says.
They certainly have stayed in demand. As early as the 1960s, individual pieces retailed for as much as $10,000 to $20,000. Even his least expensive items, which retailed for $75 three decades ago, today would sell for