SEAMAN SCHEPPS - A CENTURY OF NEW YORK JEWELRY DESIGN

'Seman Schepps' was an immigrant's son from New York's Lower East Side, he rose to prominence in the 1930s by creating designs that defied all previous ieas of what jewelry should look like. Witty, even outrageous, and wildly flattering, Schepps's jewelry stood for style more than wealth, featured on the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Look and other magazines, it appealed to an enormous range of clients, from the Duchess of Windsor to Andy Warhol.