LeeAnn Herreid
LeeAnn Herreid's jewelry is something the post modern traveler should not be without compass rings and pendants set in sterling silver ensure you'll never lose your way. Spirit Level rings, earrings and necklaces keep in balance, thermometer earrings keep you cool. These are just some of the pieces in Herried's line of functional, innovative jewelry.
Her pieces have been praised internationally, featured in numerous magazines. Herreid has also received enthusiastic letters from grateful Individual Icon owners who, finding themselves lost, have turned to their compass jewelry to help find their way.
Herreid, a 1991 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in jewelry & light metals, found her calling early in life. At age 14, her fascination with metalwork was fostered by her Concord MA art teacher who, quick to recognize her talent , volunteered her own torch and took the time to teach LeeAnn to solder. Two short years after graduating from RISD Herreid founded her company Individual Icons. The name goes right to the point of Herreid's art: jewelry that gives the wearer an expression of personal meaning through functionality. Her Individual Icons are both symbolic and beautiful.
Her pieces have been praised internationally, featured in numerous magazines. Herreid has also received enthusiastic letters from grateful Individual Icon owners who, finding themselves lost, have turned to their compass jewelry to help find their way.
Herreid, a 1991 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in jewelry & light metals, found her calling early in life. At age 14, her fascination with metalwork was fostered by her Concord MA art teacher who, quick to recognize her talent , volunteered her own torch and took the time to teach LeeAnn to solder. Two short years after graduating from RISD Herreid founded her company Individual Icons. The name goes right to the point of Herreid's art: jewelry that gives the wearer an expression of personal meaning through functionality. Her Individual Icons are both symbolic and beautiful.
Herriad describes her jewelry as -” Iconic jewelry for the modern traveler.” Employing silver and an array of small scale everyday hardware that is familiar to us all, her inspired design brings applied practical fun. For instance, Herried has created a glass fronted onch disc filled with golden sparkling diamond-dust for necklaces, long and short. Another silver chain dangles a handsome black small compass with a wide high bezel that come with matching earrings and even cuff-links of the same design.
She is most known for to a set of spirit yellow liquid bubble levels fashioned into wishbone earrings, bracelets and rings, to “keep a level head” and “a steady hand”. Her “modern icons” reach to graceful metal rulers curved for bracelets and generous wide chain-mail cuffs, that assertively snap on the arm. A narrow long, long silver mesh woven skinny lariotte for winding around the torso and an hourglass with sand caught in a tiny pendant remind us, tempus fugit. Temperature Rising? Rock a silver slim red and silver thermometers pair of earrings.....or a handsome stainless steel ruler sleek in three widths
that fetchingly wraps around the wrist. You get the picture – hardware – gearings that are the new hoops...
She is most known for to a set of spirit yellow liquid bubble levels fashioned into wishbone earrings, bracelets and rings, to “keep a level head” and “a steady hand”. Her “modern icons” reach to graceful metal rulers curved for bracelets and generous wide chain-mail cuffs, that assertively snap on the arm. A narrow long, long silver mesh woven skinny lariotte for winding around the torso and an hourglass with sand caught in a tiny pendant remind us, tempus fugit. Temperature Rising? Rock a silver slim red and silver thermometers pair of earrings.....or a handsome stainless steel ruler sleek in three widths
that fetchingly wraps around the wrist. You get the picture – hardware – gearings that are the new hoops...
