Petra Class
After immigrating from Germany, Petra Class, a classically trained goldsmith, founded a small jewelry design studio in San Francisco. Since then it has grown into an atelier where a small team of gifted metal smiths create an ever growing collection of sculptural, contemporary jewelry. High karat gold and gemstones are fabricated into wearable works of art.
"Within the self-imposed limitation of, for instance, making a gold brooch I feel I can, through my choice of colors and textures, communicate a certain mood, an attitude towards life that in turn will be, I hope, sensed by whoever is looking at the piece…like a improvisational jazz melody, like an abstract landscape…"