# Celia Sebiri

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{{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](/source/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](/source/ivory) and [tortoiseshell](/source/tortoiseshell), although the [Endangered Species Act of 1973](/source/Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973) led to [Bonwit Teller](/source/Bonwit_Teller) having to take her work off sale after they and she realized that the [hawksbill sea turtle](/source/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 Award](/source/Coty_Award)s for jewelry (that year's other jewelry Coty recipient was [Michael Moraux](/source/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](/source/Avon_Products).<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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Category:American jewelry designers
Category:Hunter College alumni
Category:American women jewellers

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