David Yurman Black Onyx
Vintage 1980s Cufflinks
Onyx, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
2010s Pendant Necklaces
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Link Bracelets
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
Vintage 1980s Fashion Rings
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
Vintage 1980s Fashion Rings
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
2010s American Beaded Necklaces
21st Century and Contemporary More Earrings
Onyx, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary More Rings
Onyx, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Cuff Bracelets
Onyx, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Cuff Bracelets
Onyx, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Signet Rings
Diamond, Onyx, Silver, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Pendant Necklaces
Diamond, Onyx, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
20th Century Cuff Bracelets
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown More Bracelets
Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Pendant Necklaces
Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Chain Necklaces
18k Gold, Yellow Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Beaded Bracelets
Onyx, Sterling Silver
1990s Beaded Bracelets
Onyx, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Lever-Back Earrings
Onyx, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary More Rings
Onyx, Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Pendant Necklaces
Diamond, Onyx, 18k Gold, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Bangles
Diamond, Black Diamond, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Fashion Rings
Onyx, Sterling Silver
2010s American Modern Cocktail Rings
Diamond, Onyx
21st Century and Contemporary Link Bracelets
Onyx, Sterling Silver
2010s American Bangles
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
Early 2000s Fashion Rings
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Beaded Bracelets
Hematite, Onyx, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Beaded Bracelets
Onyx, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Beaded Bracelets
Onyx, Sterling Silver
2010s Bangles
1990s American Stud Earrings
Onyx, Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Engagement Rings
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
1990s American Engagement Rings
Onyx, Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Cufflinks
Diamond, Onyx, Silver, Sterling Silver
2010s Signet Rings
Onyx, Sterling Silver
2010s Pendant Necklaces
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
2010s Dome Rings
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary American Contemporary Fashion Rings
Onyx, Titanium
21st Century and Contemporary Beaded Bracelets
Onyx, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Beaded Bracelets
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Beaded Bracelets
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Pendant Necklaces
Diamond, Onyx, Sterling Silver
1990s American Fashion Rings
Onyx, Silver
1990s American Fashion Rings
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Stud Earrings
Diamond, Onyx, Silver, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Fashion Rings
Onyx, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Beaded Necklaces
Onyx, 18k Gold
2010s Cuff Bracelets
Onyx, Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Bangles
Diamond, Onyx, Yellow Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Beaded Bracelets
Sterling Silver
2010s Signet Rings
Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Cuff Bracelets
Onyx, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Dome Rings
Titanium
2010s Unknown Art Deco Cocktail Rings
Diamond, Onyx, Silver, Sterling Silver
2010s American Cocktail Rings
Diamond, 18k Gold, White Gold, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Stud Earrings
Diamond, Onyx, 18k Gold
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David Yurman Black Onyx For Sale on 1stDibs
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David Yurman for sale on 1stDibs
Perhaps the ultimate artistic couple, sculptor David Yurman (b. 1942) and his wife, painter Sybil Kleinrock (b. 1942), couldn’t have imagined they’d build an internationally renowned fine jewelry empire when they met in 1969 at a sculpture studio in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
Eleven years later, in 1980, the duo established the David Yurman brand and it boomed almost instantly, a by-product of the pair’s love for and commitment to making art. (They’ve been known to call their business as well as their relationship “one big art project.”) In fact, Yurman’s most recognizable piece, the Cable bracelet, was inspired by his background in metalworking and direct welding, skills he learned when he was just a teenager. It is a marvelously modern accessory rooted in everything from jewelry motifs of ancient Syria to the natural formations of tree branches that would yield the Cable ring, earrings and other items.
When Long Island, New York–born Yurman was in high school, he spent a summer visiting his sister in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met Cuban sculptor Ernesto González, who taught him how to heat and fuse metals. After that fateful summer, Yurman experimented feverishly with bronze sculpture and, eventually, minimalist jewelry design.
Yurman studied briefly at New York University, opting to drop out after a year to hitchhike across the United States, ending up in an artist colony on California’s Big Sur coastline. The bustling artists’ scene in New York during the 1960s eventually drew him back to the East Coast. There, he trained under Cubist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, and, by 1969, he was a foreman in sculptor Hans Van de Bovenkamp’s Greenwich Village studio. It was in the studio that he met Kleinrock.
Kleinrock and Yurman began a romantic relationship, and he designed her a sculptural welded bronze necklace to wear to an art gallery opening. The gallery owner was so enchanted by the design — Yurman called it the Dante — that she wanted to buy it on the spot. Yurman refused because he considered the gift too personal, but his partner left it with the dealer. Within hours, four necklaces were sold and a brand was born.
A year after the two married in 1979 — the ceremony included simple gold rings Yurman had soldered from gold in his workshop — they officially launched David Yurman. Three years later, one of his most popular designs, the Cable bracelet, hit the market.
Today, David Yurman engagement rings, bracelets, rings, necklaces and earrings are widely treasured, distinctive works of American jewelry design.