{{Short description|American jewelry designer}} '''Celia Sebiri''' (1913-2006) was an American jewelry designer active in the 1940s-1980s.
==Biography== Sebiri was born 17 March 1913,<ref name=af/> and studied at Hunter College.<ref name=lois>{{cite book |last1=O'Neill |first1=Lois Decker |title=The Women's Book of World Records and Achievements |date=1979 |publisher=Anchor Press/Doubleday |isbn=978-0-385-12732-5 |page=256 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVEaAAAAYAAJ |language=en}}</ref> Her husband was a meat broker, and in the 1970s, they lived on Greenwich Square, Washington.<ref name=maria>{{cite news |last1=Fichtner |first1=Maria |title=Jewelry Shouldn't Outshine Wearer |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-may-30-1974-3269362/ |work=Willoughby News Herald |agency=Knight Newspaper Service |date=30 May 1974}}</ref> She died on 1 April 2006, aged 93, in New York.<ref name=af>{{cite web |title=Celia Sebiri |url=https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/celia-sebiri-birth-1913-death-2006/15633687 |website=AncientFaces |access-date=15 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Her daughter, Karen Sebiri, also became a jewelry designer.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Duka |first1=John |title=NOTES ON FASHION |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/06/style/notes-on-fashion.html |work=The New York Times |date=6 January 1981}}</ref>
==Jewelry design== As a jewelry designer Sebiri was known particularly for her work in silver, which she treated as if it were more valuable than it already was.<ref name=lois/> She also worked with natural materials including ivory and tortoiseshell, although the Endangered Species Act of 1973 led to Bonwit Teller having to take her work off sale after they and she realized that the hawksbill sea turtle was an endangered species.<ref name=lima/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Graham |first1=Rubye |title=A Turn for Turtle |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-jul-11-1973-3269371/ |access-date=15 June 2022 |work=San Antonio Light |date=11 July 1973 |page=52 |language=en}}</ref> In 1974 Sebiri described her inspirations as coming from anywhere from passages of literature to dried up leaves.<ref name=maria/>
In 1973 Sebiri won one of two Special Coty Awards for jewelry (that year's other jewelry Coty recipient was Michael Moraux of Dubaux) for her work, which was described as sinuous and featuring animal motifs.<ref name=lima>{{cite news |title=Fashion Awards Pinpoint Trends |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-oct-18-1973-3269384/ |work=Lima News |date=18 October 1973}}</ref> In the 1980s she designed jewelry for Avon.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Celia Siberi |journal=Ornament |date=1986 |volume=11-12 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WPJUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Sebiri%22+%22Avon%22 |language=en}}</ref>
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