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	Stuart Devlin Scroll down to see selection of items for sale Stuart Devlin ranks as one of the great contemporary gold and silversmiths and has been acclaimed by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as the designer with 'the Midas touch'. In the 1960's and 70's some silversmiths were disenchanted with designing anonymously for big manufacturing firms, which were in decline, and they set out on their own. They focused on their own style and had a personal commitment to the marketing of their own productions. The business designer craftsmen Stuart Devlin and Gerald Benney led in this field. Devlin was very successful with the idea of limited editions and the most popular of these were the surprise Easter eggs and Christmas boxes, which were so successful commercially that they have now become collector's items. He was born in Geelong, Australia, in 1931. In his third year of secondary education, he chose to become an art teacher, specializing in gold and silversmithing. In 1957 he obtained a post at a Melbourne college and studied for a Diploma of Art in gold and silversmithing. On the strength of this achievement, he was awarded scholarships to study at the Royal College of Art in London in 1958. He excelled and, as a result, was awarded a Fellowship by the Harkness Foundation of New York. He chose to spend the two-year fellowship at Columbia University in the U.S. On the completion of his overseas study in 1962, he returned to teach in Melbourne, Australia, and subsequently became an inspector of art schools. In 1964, he won a competition to design the first decimal coinage for Australia. In 1965, he moved to London and opened a small workshop. This marked the beginning of Devlin's true style. He changed his design direction away from "the austerity of the Bauhaus/Scandinavian Schools to a romantic use of precious metal." He concluded that the role for a contemporary silversmith is to enrich the way people live and work. He felt the nature of his craft and the romance of precious metals gave him an opportunity to design pieces that added delight, surprise, intrigue, and even amusement to what had become austere and even sterile within the modern idiom of design. Increasingly he turned out rich and romantic pieces that retained simple forms. Developing these pieces required technical innovation because the traditional methods of enrichment were either not available any more or were too time-consuming and therefore prohibitively expensive. He adapted and devised techniques to enable him to produce a wide variety of textures and filigree forms. In 1967, he began designing jewelry and, over the next decade, became well-known in London's West End with his exhibitions at Collingwoods. In 1972 transferred his retail gallery to the ground floor of his St. John Street workshop in Clerkenwell and continued holding his annual exhibition of his collection, often numbering 250 pieces. He employed 9 craftsmen here. Between 1979 and 1985 he had a prestigious showroom in Conduit Street. In 1982, he was granted the Royal Warrant of Appointment as Goldsmith and Jeweler to Her Majesty the Queen. In 1987 he was commissioned by Argyle Diamonds to make a diamond collection. Stuart Devlin produced a new collection each year which has forced him to continually seek new ideas for his next collection, particularly since the many collectors of his work anticipate something exciting and different each year. Among his most popular commissions, Stuart Devlin has designed coins for 36 countries throughout the world, including Singapore, Malaysia, and the Cayman Islands. He has designed hundreds of commemorative medallions. He designs furniture, interiors, jewelry, and commission pieces of all types, including trophies, clocks, centerpieces, goblets, candelabra, bowls, and insignia. He closed his London shop and workshop and now works from Littlehampton. East Sussex. He was Prime Warden of the Goldsmith's Company 1996-7. Personal Statement from Stuart Devlin: I hope that my work reflects four maxims: That future is much more important than the past That creativity is paramount That skill is fundamental And that the justification for being a goldsmith is to enrich the way people live and work


Set of Eight Silver Champagne Flutes London 1977-79 Stuart Devlin Height: 22½cm Diameter: 6½cm £2950 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Taperstick Holder London 1972 Stuart Devlin Length: 17cm £695 Click image to enlarge


Silver Violet Bowl London 1972 Stuart Devlin Made for Viners No 7/ 100 Height: 8cm £495 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Violet Goblet London 1977 Stuart Devlin Height: 17cm Weight: 250g £450 Limited Edition goblet produced for Paramount Classics, Ohio, USA


Silver Vase London 1987 Stuart Devlin Height: 14.5cm £295 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Champagne Flute London 1980 Stuart Devlin Height: 22.5cm Diameter: 6.5cm (top) £395 Click image to enlarge


Silver Menu Holder London 1977 Stuart Devlin Length:4cm £120 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Beaker London 1978 Staurt Devlin Height: 13cm Diameter:6cm £550 Four Available Click image to enlarge


Silver Candlesticks London 1968 Stuart Devlin Height: 27cm £2950 Click image to enlarge Featured in December 2009 BBC Homes and Antiques magazine


	Silver Scent Bottle London 1982 Stuart Devlin Height: 5.5cm Diameter: 6.5cm £495 Click image to enlarge


Pair Boxed Silver Champagne Flutes London 1980 Stuart Devlin Height: 22.5cm Diameter: 6.5cm (top) £790 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Chic Egg London 1971 Stuart Devlin Retailed by Andrew Grima Does not have a number £425 Click image to enlarge


Silver 'Blackbirds in a pie' Egg London 1982 Stuart Devlin £425 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Christmas Surprise Box Holly and the Ivy London 1975 Stuart Devlin No 271 £350 Click image to enlarge


Good King Wenceslas Silver Box London 1971 Stuart Devlin No: 216/500 Height: 6.5cm £295 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Christmas "Bell" Egg London 1984 Stuart Devlin Height: 6.5cm £350 Click image to enlarge


Silver Letter Opener London 1969 Stuart Devlin Length: 24cm £475 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Salt London 1972 Stuart Devlin Height: 5cm Diameter: 4.5cm £275 Click image to enlarge


Silver Filigree Egg London 1983 Stuart Devlin No 2 Height: 6cm £350 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Egg London 1985 Stuart Devlin No 2 Height: 6cm £250 Click image to enlarge


Pair Silver Goblets London 1978 Stuart Devlin Height:17cm Diameter: 9cm £950 Click image to enlarge and see more detail


	Silver Jubilee Letter Opener London 1977 Stuart Devlin Length: 17cm £165 Click image to enlarge


Viners and Stuart Devlin Stuart Devlin designed a range of items to be mass produced by Viners in stainless steel called the 'Devlin Collection'. To launch these, Viners comissioned 100 of each item to be made in silver and issued as a numbered limited edition. The steel one can be seen on the right These are being sold as a set of six in silver see below Click image to enlarge


	Silver 'Party' Bowl London 1972 Stuart Devlin Designed and made for Viners No 7 of 100 Diameter: 13½cm Height: 5cm Weight: 9oz £450 Click image to enlarge


Silver Frog Egg London Stuart Devlin No 205 £425 Click image to enlarge


	Stuart Devlin Book Goldsmiths Company Exhibition 2-6 November 1987 62 Pages Well illustrated £45 Click image to enlarge


Hark The Herald Angel Sing Silver Box London 1974 Stuart Devlin No:116/500 With Box and Certificate Height: 6.5cm £350 Click image to enlarge


	The Bristol Silver Goblet London 1973 Stuart Devlin The Heritage Collection No 216/600 Height: 15cm £295 Comemorating 600 years of Brsitol also with Brsitol Town assay hallmark Click image to enlarge


Silver Elf Egg London 1985 Stuart Devlin No 64 £425 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Egg London 1985 Stuart Devlin No 2 £250 Click image to enlarge


Silver Humpty Dumpty Egg London 1976 Stuart Devlin Length: 7½cm £425 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Hedgehog Egg London 1978 Stuart Devlin No 91 £425 Click image to enlarge


Silver Nursery Rhyme Egg Mary, Mary Quite Contrary London 1978 Staurt Devlin No 88 £425 Click image to enlarge


	Silver and Amethyst Box London 1975 Stuart Devlin Diameter: 5cm £295 Click image to enlarge


Three Rabbits and Tree Silver Egg Lonodn 1985 Stuart Devlin £350 Click image to enlarge


	Silver Fish Egg London 1970 Stuart Devlin No 87 £425 Click image to enlarge


Silver Rabbit Egg London 1973 Stuart Devlin £425 Click image to enlarge


	Royal Wedding Silver Goblet London 1981 Stuart Devlin Height: 19cm £350


Silver Fish Egg London 1985 Stuart Devlin No 119 Length: 8cm £395 Click image to enlarge


	Royal Silver Wedding Paper Weight London 1972 Stuart Devlin Limited No 43 £150 Click image to enlarge


Silver Jubilee Egg London 1977 Stuart Devlin Height: 7½cm £195 Egg only Click image to enlarge

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