Albion Smith

Albion Smith is a native California jeweller and silversmith. He has an almost religious commitment to hand craft, and forms, fabricates, and engraves each of his works by hand. Albion enjoys a feeling of connection to the pre-industrial craft makers. Instead of engraving, the ornamentation patterns used in his works are painstakingly cut from silver sheet. He frequently receives design advice and assistance from his mate, Elissa Forsyth.

Albion takes particular pleasure in creating functional jeweled objects that are made to be used rather than just displayed. His trademark teapots, goblets, flasks and keepsake boxes are highly sought after by collectors. In 1996, one of his teapots [http://americanart.si.edu/search/search_artworks1.cfm?StartRow=1&LastName=smith&FirstName=albion&Title=&Keyword=&Accession=&dosearch=Go&db=all&format=short] was made part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC.