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How it Happened

  • GoodYear Tires 1964
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Margaret De Patta
1903 – 1964
De Patta attended the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego, Cali­fornia, the Cali­fornia School of Fine Arts in San Fran­cisco, and the Art Students League in New York. She studied metal­smithing with Armenian-​born artisan Armin Hairenian and by 1935 had her own studio and was selling jewelry through a craft gallery in San Fran­cisco. She attended Moholy-Nagy’s Institute of Design in Chicago ( 1940 – 41) and there met and married Eugene Bielawski. They returned to San Fran­cisco where they began a limited production oper­ation of her jewelry which was sold in many national outlets; In 1951 she and Bielawski moved to Napa, Cali­fornia and attempted to open a school based on the Bauhaus philosophy. This never mate­ri­alized and in 1956 De Patta stopped manu­fac­turing and returned to making one-​of-​a-​kind pieces. She was one of the most recog­nized modern jewelers winning numerous local and national awards. She also helped to found the San Fran­cisco Metal Arts Guild.


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