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In the 1980s and ’90s, Robert Lee Morris’s sculptural silver earrings, breastplates and cuffs earned him certain trappings of fashion stardom: a yearslong collaboration with Donna Karan, a friendship with Karl Lagerfeld, exporting his namesake jewelry brand to Japan.
Mr. Morris’s Artwear store, known for its museum-like approach to displaying statement jewelry, became a destination in SoHo well before the Manhattan neighborhood turned into an open-air mall. The store, which closed in 1995, helped cement his reputation as a designer known for preferring size over subtlety and for bringing new attention to silver (and by extension sterling silver, an alloy).
As the price of gold has soared to all-time highs — peaking at about $2,800 an ounce in late October before falling to its current price, about $2,600 an ounce — Mr. Morris’s preferred medium of silver, which currently costs about $30 an ounce, has been sought out by a growing number of jewelers.
Many have used the metal to produce hefty and intricate pieces that would be cost prohibitive if made in gold, fueling a shift away from delicate demi-fine baubles and toward sizable jewelry — the kind made by Mr. Morris and other established designers known for working with silver, like Ted Muehling, Gabriella Kiss and Judy Geib.
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