THE LIFE AND WORK OF JAY STRONGWATER  Throughout his career, Jay Strongwater’s love of the elegant but vividly bejeweled objet—whether it’s meant to rest on a tabletop or the graceful curve of a woman’s neck— has led him on a journey through the worlds of fashion and home furnishings. Strongwater began his career in 1981 while a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. After garnering raves for a necklace he’d made his mother, he took jewelry samples to the open buyer days at New York’s department stores and a burgeoning business was born.
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