18k Walters Faith Yellow Gold Link Necklaces

Walters Faith is a contemporary fine jeweler with classic style. The brand's geometric band rings, architectural hoop earrings and chic chain necklaces have an effortless elegance. Each piece features a simple setting enhanced with rich detail. The timeless designs are favorites among the likes of Tiina Smith, a chic dealer in Boston whose offerings include exceptional signed pieces from every era.

Walters Faith was founded by friends and business partners Mollie Faith Good and Stephanie Walters Abramow. The two told The Daily Front Row that they met in 2009 while working for Ivanka Trump. They felt their shared love of fine jewelry and complementary skills were a good fit, and they launched Walters Faith in 2013.

Abramow is a graduate gemologist and holds a business degree from Cornell University. Good, fascinated by jewelry since childhood, is the brand's designer. She trained at the Gemological Institute of America and the University of Michigan, where she studied design and metalsmithing. She begins all of her pieces with a pencil sketch. 

Adding to the nostalgic feel of Walters Faith jewelry, each of the company’s collections is named after a member of the Bloomsbury Group. The early 20th-century group was composed of noted English artists, writers and philosophers like Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes. 

Walters Faith collections are popular with high-profile celebrities such as Kendall Jenner, Jennifer Lawrence, Priyanka Chopra, Jennifer Lopez and Meryl Streep. Major fashion and lifestyle publications including Departures, Vogue, Town & Country, Harper’s Bazaar and Goop have covered the brand’s work. 

The company is known for mainly using white and rose gold in its exquisite creations. However, in 2022, Walters Faith partnered with Platinum Guild International on a line of platinum designs for the Couture Show in Las Vegas.

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Contemporary jewelry is inextricably linked with the moment in which it is created, frequently reflecting current social, cultural and political issues such as environmental consciousness, identity and sustainability. It’s informed by fashion trends, from the chokers of the 1990s to the large chain necklaces of the early 2000s.

Jewelry is one of the oldest forms of adornment. Lockets made of silver or gold have been treasured gifts for hundreds of years, for example, and charm bracelets, which have existed since prehistoric times, didn’t become especially popular until the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria. For many centuries, fine jewelry was used primarily to express wealth or status through lavish materials. Then, in the 1960s, a concept known as the “critique of preciousness” emerged, with jewelers creating pieces that did not get their value from gemstones or precious metals. Instead, it was the jeweler’s artistic vision that was prized and elevated.

This shift still informs Contemporary jewelry being made by artists today. Whether they are using cheap, found materials and working with provocative geometric shapes or seeking out the rarest stones, they are imbuing their work with meaning through their skills, techniques and ideas. Innovative designers such as Elsa Peretti, who popularized sculptural sterling-silver jewelry for Tiffany & Co., and David Yurman, who twisted metal into the simple yet striking Cable bracelet, have also influenced the direction of Contemporary jewelry’s forms and aesthetics.

Meanwhile, technological advancements like metal alloys and laser engraving have led to new possibilities in jewelry design. Now, edgy makers and brands as well as minimalist designers are pushing Contemporary jewelry forward into the 21st century.

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