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Angie Atkins is a 44 year-old, award winning, maverick jewelry designer and the sole
owner of Angie Olami, Inc. She founded Angie Olami 20 years ago after earning a B.A. in English at Yale University, studying Russian literature at the University of St. Petersburg, working on an archaeological dig in Israel, trekking in Nepal, and living in southern Spain. A Chicago-born, globe-roaming, quatro-lingual traveler, Atkins has long sifted through the rubble and myths of lost civilizations to find the subterranean history of amulets. From her travels and research, she has designed sterling silver jewelry and 14k gold collections based on the ancient languages, symbols, and cultures of Israel, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Dante's medieval Florence. For holiday she spent time researching Byzantine, and Roman mosaics for her Mosaica Collection. Angie Olami's Jewelry is made primarily in Israel by a small group of handpicked master craftsmen. Many pieces are also made in her studio in Montclair, NJ.
(Made-in-America-only Galleries click here
for more info) It is available through galleries, museums, and specialty boutiques in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Materials include sterling silver, fourteen karat gold, semi-precious and precious stones, pearls,
ancient glass from the Roman Period, Murano glass beads from Italy,
and Czechoslovakian crystal.
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Angie Atkins with daughter Shira
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