David Yurman Thoroughbred
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Diamond, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
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14k Gold, Silver
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18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Silver
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Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
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Diamond, Pearl, 18k Gold
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14k Gold, Silver
Recent Sales
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Yellow Gold
Early 2000s Wrist Watches
Stainless Steel
2010s Wrist Watches
Yellow Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Wrist Watches
18k Gold, Stainless Steel
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Yellow Gold, 18k Gold
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2010s Swiss Wrist Watches
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1980s Cufflinks
Onyx, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
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Sterling Silver
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20th Century More Earrings
Diamond, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
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Diamond
Vintage 1980s American Retro Wrist Watches
18k Gold, Steel, Stainless Steel
2010s Choker Necklaces
Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
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Stainless Steel
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Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
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Stainless Steel
1990s American Clip-on Earrings
Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver, 14k Gold
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14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
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18k Gold, Sterling Silver
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Diamond, Sterling Silver
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Gold, Sterling Silver
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Gold, Sterling Silver
Early 2000s Swiss Wrist Watches
Diamond, Steel, Stainless Steel
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14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
2010s Lever-Back Earrings
Diamond, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Silver
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Diamond, Sterling Silver
1990s Hoop Earrings
18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
1990s Dome Rings
14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
2010s Cocktail Rings
Early 2000s Modern Band Rings
Gold, 14k Gold, Sterling Silver, Yellow Gold
2010s American Fashion Rings
Diamond, Sterling Silver
2010s More Earrings
Citrine, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Silver
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Diamond, Sterling Silver
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14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
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14k Gold, Sterling Silver
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Diamond, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Wrist Watches
Diamond, White Diamond, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Wrist Watches
Diamond, White Diamond, 18k Gold, Gold, Stainless Steel, Sterling Silver...
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Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver
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21st Century and Contemporary Engagement Rings
Diamond, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
1990s French Solitaire Rings
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Tourmaline, Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
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Diamond, Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Silver, Sterling Silver
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Diamond, Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
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Gold, 14k Gold, Sterling Silver
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Diamond, Amethyst, Sterling Silver
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Yellow Gold
2010s Cocktail Rings
Late 20th Century Hoop Earrings
18k Gold, Yellow Gold
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Diamond, Topaz, Blue Topaz, Sterling Silver
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Citrine, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
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Yellow Gold
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Diamond, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Early 20th Century Band Rings
Diamond, Yellow Gold
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Diamond, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
David Yurman Thoroughbred For Sale on 1stDibs
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David Yurman for sale on 1stDibs
Perhaps the ultimate artistic couple, sculptor David Yurman (b. 1942) and his wife, painter Sybil Kleinrock (b. 1942), couldn’t have imagined they’d build an internationally renowned fine jewelry empire when they met in 1969 at a sculpture studio in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
Eleven years later, in 1980, the duo established the David Yurman brand and it boomed almost instantly, a by-product of the pair’s love for and commitment to making art. (They’ve been known to call their business as well as their relationship “one big art project.”) In fact, Yurman’s most recognizable piece, the Cable bracelet, was inspired by his background in metalworking and direct welding, skills he learned when he was just a teenager. It is a marvelously modern accessory rooted in everything from jewelry motifs of ancient Syria to the natural formations of tree branches that would yield the Cable ring, earrings and other items.
When Long Island, New York–born Yurman was in high school, he spent a summer visiting his sister in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met Cuban sculptor Ernesto González, who taught him how to heat and fuse metals. After that fateful summer, Yurman experimented feverishly with bronze sculpture and, eventually, minimalist jewelry design.
Yurman studied briefly at New York University, opting to drop out after a year to hitchhike across the United States, ending up in an artist colony on California’s Big Sur coastline. The bustling artists’ scene in New York during the 1960s eventually drew him back to the East Coast. There, he trained under Cubist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, and, by 1969, he was a foreman in sculptor Hans Van de Bovenkamp’s Greenwich Village studio. It was in the studio that he met Kleinrock.
Kleinrock and Yurman began a romantic relationship, and he designed her a sculptural welded bronze necklace to wear to an art gallery opening. The gallery owner was so enchanted by the design — Yurman called it the Dante — that she wanted to buy it on the spot. Yurman refused because he considered the gift too personal, but his partner left it with the dealer. Within hours, four necklaces were sold and a brand was born.
A year after the two married in 1979 — the ceremony included simple gold rings Yurman had soldered from gold in his workshop — they officially launched David Yurman. Three years later, one of his most popular designs, the Cable bracelet, hit the market.
Today, David Yurman engagement rings, bracelets, rings, necklaces and earrings are widely treasured, distinctive works of American jewelry design.