Designers from Glenn Spiro to Silvia Furmanovich are turning shells into fine jewelry.
On a recent vacation in Careyes, Mexico, Sara Beltrán scoured the beach looking for beautiful seashells for her Dezso jewelry line. And finding an unusual one, she thinks, is like discovering a great diamond.
“Amazing shells are hard to find,” Ms. Beltrán, a New York-based designer, said. “You can’t buy them or create them; it’s a gift from Mother Nature.”
Ms. Beltrán is among a group of designers who are mixing humble mollusk shells with gemstones, along with gold and other precious metals, in upscale contemporary jewelry.
Another such designer is Glenn Spiro, who buys Victorian-era objects decorated with shells
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