Gregory Pyra Piro art jewelry is all original work. Most pieces are from
sterling silver and solid 14 karat gold, or sterling silver and solid 18 karat gold, with variety of combinations
of color stones. Special orders can also be made in all gold on request. At times, in larger pieces,
materials such as wood, steel, and glass may be used together with silver and gold. The gem stones in the jewelry range from precious to semi precious facet cut with
a combination of pearls, drusy crystals, cut glass, sea glass, occasional ammonite, and amber. The
wide selection of materials makes possible for the designer jewelry artist to create the art jewelry to have very different, unique jewelry designs. The
art jewelry pieces are formed from silver and gold wire, sheet, tubes, etc., with jewelry tools. The original handmade jewelry idea of
Gregory Pyra Piro art jewelry is that each customer when they own a piece by Gregory it is the original handcrafted
by the jewelry artist.
Gregory Pyra Piro jewelry available on this website includes a booklet (image above), which has a
picture of the piece ordered on the cover, and the booklet inside says that it is an original handcrafted piece by
the designer jewelry artist Gregory Pyra Piro and that the piece is not casting duplicate but a handmade jewelry piece. The booklet comes with your
ring, pendant, earrings, necklace, or pendant. The booklet is hand signed by the artist.
Fine Jewelry & Handmade Jewelry Together in One
Jewelry is either fine jewelry, such as gold jewelry in jewelry stores, gold jewelry with
diamonds,
gold rings, diamond rings, gold charms, gold chains, or any kind of
commercial production jewelry that is made of gold that is offered in
jewelry stores, that has real gemstones such as
diamonds,
and even has certificates, but an artist has never seen such a piece with
his live eyes or even touched it with his hands much less even made it.
Or jewelry is handmade jewelry, craft jewelry, handcrafted jewelry, or jewelry that
is made by crafters or artists, where the jewelry pieces are not made
usually from solid gold, and often not even from sterling silver. This type
of artist or crafter made craft jewelry, handcrafted jewelry, or handmade jewelry often is made
from steel, or from copper and only has the look of sterling silver and
solid gold jewelry, and has glass or
cubic zirconia instead of real
gemstones such as:
amethyst,
blue topaz,
citrine,
garnet,
peridot,
tourmaline, or even
emerald,
sapphire,
ruby, or
diamond. Why the market of jewelry in gold and silver with real
gemstones
probably may not be strong is because no one has the opportunity to examine a
lady's handcrafted jewelry pair of earrings, a necklace, or a ring at an eye's glance when it is
worn in public, and such ladies get away with thinking no one will ever
know. Yes, but someone wearing the jewelry still does know. Then there is
also the handmade jewelry, or craft jewelry that is the so called handmade
by artists and often also is called handcrafted jewelry, but does not even include rings because it is only beaded
jewelry offering only necklaces, earrings, and bracelets,
and such craft jewelry or handcrafted jewelry although again will sometimes even look nice,
someone wearing it knows it does not require a very highly skilled
professional specialist to bead a strand of beads. Beaded jewelry is
handmade jewelry but it is usually without the gold and without the silver,
and without the work of a skilled silversmith or a skilled goldsmith, a
jewelry artist, or any skilled handwork from an artist. Beaded jewelry is
handmade jewelry, and skill is needed to make such craft jewelry, but the
skills to strand beads are very basic. And then still there is the
contemporary jewelry, the European art jewelry or the designer jewelry that
is made of materials such as, for example, plastic or paper and designers
make names for themselves with such jewelry on shows. The European
contemporary jewelry is made by designers, but again this kind of
contemporary jewelry is usually without gold and without silver or handwork
of a metal artist, unless the metal is steel or copper, or other non
precious metal, and it's often only the name that counts in such craft
jewelry, handmade jewelry, or designer jewelry. But when a woman wears
a piece of jewelry, she will not be wearing a designer's name around her
neck, her wrist, or her finger, but the piece itself. Gregory Pyra
Piro is both fine jewelry and handmade jewelry by artist, at the same time.
The jewelry is original handmade and is made in sterling silver and solid
gold of either 14 karat gold or 18 karat gold and has semi precious
gemstones such as:
amethyst,
blue topaz,
citrine,
garnet,
peridot,
tourmaline, or
diamond,
emerald,
sapphire, and ruby. It is not only
hard to find today jewelry that is really artist made, but even harder if the artist made jewelry is made with real
gemstones, and precious metals.
Handcrafted Jewelry, Craft Jewelry, Art Jewelry, Handmade Jewelry, Functional Jewelry
Gregory Pyra, an international jewelry artist, has his work shown currently in museums such as the
Malbork Castle Museum, in
Malbork, and the
Amber Museum in
Gdansk in
Poland.
Pforzheim Jewellery Museum also had his jewelry artworks. In the past he has made pieces for the Royal family in
Sweden, for
King Carl XVI Gustaf and
Queen Silvia in 1976 after his work was
shown in Tidö Slott, in
Tidö-Lindö,
Sweden. Gregory had shows since the
1970's until the present in Europe, USA, Australia. His jewelry works
were published in books, which were printed in Germany, Poland, UK, France, etc. Some of his recent made work currently is found
in galleries in the USA and Europe. His art jewelry is
something that is entirely artist created and not influenced by the market.
Gregory Pyra art jewelry, unique in a class by itself, is different than
anything in the craft movement in the UK, USA, and Australia, and different
than any mass produced jewelry found in the UK, USA, Europe or in any other market.
This jewelry is something that the artist creates
completely on his own, and at the same time has superb quality. Today
Gregory Pyra, Gabriel Pyra, and Piro Group continue creating superb art
jewelry design pieces and also unique sculpture. There are many
designs available. Persons interested in Gregory's recent made
original works can contact the artist.
Art jewelry, Designer Jewelry, Gregory Pyra Piro, Gabriel Pyra, and The Piro Group
Art jewelry, designer jewelry by artist Gregory Pyra Piro and the Piro
Group has been a long multi generation tradition in the family.
Piro art jewelry is made in a unique way and is formed into a unique
form. Every jewelry piece is a work of art, created entirely in
free form. Unlike most jewelry today, which is made in either
casting or is stamped, Piro art jewelry is made by hand and the free
forms are made with a torch with careful precision soldering, which is
something that takes a long time and a lot of skilled talent to master.
Therefore, each piece, even if based on a similar or even the same
design will come out a bit different, unlike it would in cast pieces,
and each piece is one of a kind even if based on a particular design.
The Piro art jewelry is made in sterling silver and 14 karat or 18 karat
gold, and sometimes all gold. The designs for center stones often
have facet cut gem stones such as: amethyst, blue topaz, citrine,
garnet, iolite, peridot, green
tourmaline, pink
tourmaline, or any other different colors of tourmaline. Alternately sometimes cabochons of
moonstone and
opal are used. Side stones, which sometimes are also major parts of the
design pieces can include:
ammonite,
Baltic amber,
glass,
sea glass,
drusy, mother pearl, and
Australian opal. Pearls,
opal,
moonstone, can be placed either as center or side gem stones. The center gem
stones in many Piro design jewelry pieces frequently come in such combinations as:
amethyst and blue topaz,
amethyst and garnet,
blue topaz and
peridot,
citrine and garnet, citrine and peridot, and
tourmaline can
come with another color gem stones. Sometimes gem stones can
double up as two amethyst stones or two blue topaz stones, for example.
And simpler pieces may have a single gem stone. Piro art jewelry
includes combination pieces such as
ring pendants, and some unique creative pieces such as the
stack rings.
This site shows the creation
of fine, elegant rare one of a kind art in the jewelry medium,
designer art jewelry, sculptures, created by the Piro Group, Gabriel Pyra
and by jewelry artist Gregory Pyra Piro, who made pieces for the Royal family in
Sweden, for
King Carl XVI Gustaf and
Queen Silvia in 1976 and who has his works in the
Malbork Castle Museum, in
Malbork, and the
Amber Museum in
Gdansk in
Poland. The images and animations show real designer art jewelry pieces, and real
sculptures. All Gregory Pyra Piro, Gabriel Pyra, and The Piro Group pieces are very
original creations. Piro designer art jewelry are functional sculpture
works of art that are wearable, and include such pieces as rings, pendants, bracelets, earrings,
perfume bottle pendants,
watch bracelets,
ring pendants, pin pendants, necklaces, etc. Gregory Pyra Piro art jewelry is
designed to be elegant, unique artwork, and also to be functional. The pieces are handmade by artist. The
gem stones and metals used in the jewelry
are solid 14 karat and 18 karat gold, sterling silver and fine silver, and a wide variety of
gem stones. The combinations of our
materials is as creative as our artwork itself. Piro, for example, can
make a piece in sterling and solid gold that has Baltic amber and fine jewelry facet cut
gem stones together in that same piece.
Or put a combination of sea glass with pearls and fine jewelry facet cut
gem stones together. Piro sculptures
may be a combination of clocks, lamps, and wine glasses, and can be made of
materials like nautilus shells,
ebony wood,
black oak, silver, gold, and include semi precious and precious
gem stones.