Paul Lobel

(1899-1983) New York, NY & Provincetown, RI - Industrial Designer, sculptor & jeweler.  Jewelry from c.1943. Romanian born Paul Lobel, one of the most well-known of the mid-20th Century modernist jewelers, was also a successful painter, cartoonist, sculptor, and designer of glass, furniture and hollowware. From modest beginnings on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Lobel rose to achieve a one-man show in Paris in 1925, two awards at the International Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1937, and 2 exhibitions at the American Museum of Modern Art in NYC. He was one of a handful modernist jewelers accredited with the wearable art movement in Greenwich Village, along with the likes of Art Smith, Bill Tendler, Sam Kramer, Jules Brenner, Ed Wiener and Henry Steig.