The jewelry designer Marcia Budet shows her collection of pieces. (Credit: Javier del Valle)
The Puertorican designer finds success with brave, personal design.
The Puertorican architect created her first piece of jewelry for her first communion with the help of her mother and the award -winning jewelry designer Marcia Budet has long been accepted the sensible connection between design and personal milestones.
“I am not afraid that I am an architect,” said Budet in an interview with news is my business and described architecture as the core identity of your jewelry line.
“Since I was small, I've started to mark special occasions with a piece of jewelry. For example, my mother and I designed a number of pearls for my first communion that I still have,” she said.
Bondet switched from architecture to fine jewelry after making her master's degree in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. In search of a piece that marked her displacement of students to professional, she found nothing that corresponded to her vision.
“I wanted something that made a brave statement and I couldn't find it,” she said. “And my mother said: 'Marcia, you can design buildings – why don't you design a jewelry for yourself?' So I did that.
Shortly afterwards, a colleague admired the ring and encouraged her to submit him to a design competition in Italy. She did – and won a gold price.
“That definitely attracted my attention,” said Budet. “The following year I won another award in the same competition and decided to move to New York City to build my business.” There she completed courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology (Fit) and at the Gemological Institute of America.
Bind gradually started building up her customers, taking up custom orders while studying brand management and designing her business on her own conditions.
She now sells via her website and on private shows. “I have the wallet of my own private customer and if I have to do it at some point, I will open a business,” she said, adding that she has lost no customers by having no physical shop front. “The truth is that I like to have control over my time.”
Budets Statement pieces contain classic lines and are designed for “not so looking, elegantly brave woman”. Your collections are made in 18 carat gold and sterling silver with precious and half -goods stones. It also creates custom parts for private customers.
Her jewelry was sold in shops in San Juan, Manhattan and the Hamptons in New York.
“As a business decision, I decided shortly before the start of the pandemic to sell directly to the consumer and to build this relationship directly,” she said.
Bind has won customers through events, exhibits and speaking. “If you have a good product and offer a good customer service experience, it is a word spread.”
“Last year it was particularly noteworthy for me,” she added and found that the American Gem Trade Association awarded its manufacturing awards for a few Colombian emerald and diamond modular ear rings for a private customer.
It was also presented in “Women of Jewelry”, a book that was founded in Sotheby's New York that shows the work and interviews of 100 women's fine jewelry designers from all over the world.
“I am the only Puertoricaner presented in the book,” said Budet.
Maria Miranda is an investigative reporter and publisher with 20 years of experience in Puerto Rico's English -language newspapers. In this capacity, she worked on long -term projects and reported on strict deadlines with Breaking News. It dominates data from public databases and asks persons (both individuals of the public sector). She is also a translator and has edited and translated an economic book about Puerto Rico's financial crisis. She worked as an interpreter for Fema during the recent recovery efforts by the Hurrican María and earned her Fema badge.