Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Late 20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Amethyst, 18k Gold
1990s Unknown Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Diamond, 18k Gold, Silver
20th Century American Modernist Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Diamond, White Diamond, Gold, 18k Gold, White Gold
1990s American Modernist Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Garnet, 14k Gold, Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
18k Gold, Sterling Silver
20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Citrine, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver, 18k Gold
Late 20th Century Contemporary Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Diamond, White Diamond, Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century American Contemporary Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Topaz, Blue Topaz, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
1980s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Diamond, Silver, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
20th Century American Modernist Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Diamond, Gold, 14k Gold, Sterling Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Diamond, 14k Gold, Sterling Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Diamond, Gold, Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Amethyst, Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Amethyst, Sterling Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Turquoise, Sterling Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Citrine, Sterling Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Citrine, Sterling Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Topaz, Blue Topaz, Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Lapis Lazuli, Sterling Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Citrine, Sterling Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Topaz, Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
14k Gold, Silver, Sterling Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
14k Gold, Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
14k Gold, Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Gold, Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Citrine, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Silver, Sterling Silver
20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Topaz, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century American Contemporary Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Diamond, Yellow Gold, 18k Gold
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
18k Gold, Yellow Gold
1990s Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Gold
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Morganite, Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Topaz, 14k Gold, Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century American Contemporary Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Garnet, Tourmaline, 18k Gold
20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Amethyst, Quartz, 14k Gold, Sterling Silver, Yellow Gold
Late 20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Freshwater Pearl, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
1990s American Modern Vintage David Yurman Earrings
14k Gold, Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century Unknown Vintage David Yurman Earrings
18k Gold, Yellow Gold
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Sterling Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Topaz, Blue Topaz, Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Onyx, Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Sterling Silver
20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century Contemporary Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Garnet, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
14k Gold, Sterling Silver, Yellow Gold
20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
1990s American Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Silver
20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
Diamond, Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
20th Century Vintage David Yurman Earrings
1990s Vintage David Yurman Earrings
18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
20th Century Modern Vintage David Yurman Earrings
18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
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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.
Finding the Right Earrings for You
In the United States, ear piercing didn’t really become popular until the 1950s and ‘60s, but our desire for a dazzling pair of vintage earrings has deeper roots than that. In fact, wearing earrings actually goes back thousands of years, and you can find many tangible connections between now and then in how we continue to talk about these treasured accessories.
Women wore ornamental earrings — studs and hoops at the very least — in Ancient Egypt, which is home to mines that are among the earliest sources of emeralds in the world. Emerald earrings are highly prized today, and their quality lies in their rich, saturated color. The highest-quality emeralds are green or bluish-green. Earrings worn by the affluent in early Roman civilizations were set with precious stones such as diamonds and pearls, and a clean-looking pop of pearl on the front of the lobe is as timeless as ever. Hoop earrings are imbued with symbolism and cultural significance for many, and on view in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Ancient Near Eastern Art Gallery is a pair of simple gold hoops from Mesopotamia dating to between 2600 and 2500 B.C.
Today, ear piercing is very popular all over the world, and, as a result, it is difficult to overstate how much everyone pines for a good pair of earrings — modernist drop earrings, glamorous Victorian hoops, geometrically complex chandelier earrings, you name it. Sure, jewelry trends and the fashion darlings of social media come and go, but earrings have a staying power that seems impenetrable: The still-strong love affair between British royals and Cartier earrings is more than a century old, glossy 1970s hoops from legacy houses such as Bulgari and Van Cleef Arpels remain the statement makers they’ve always been and although people have been stacking earrings for many moons, the allure of an expertly mismatched stack of charms and studs still feels fresh and new.
While there is no shortage of modern earring designs to choose from, the classics, like coral earrings, Art Deco–style earrings and diamond drop earrings are still heavy hitters. On 1stDibs, find a wide range of antique, new and vintage earrings today.