jewelers founded 1980 headquarters new york city united states key people david yurman co founder sybil yurman co founder products jewelry revenue us 836 million total sales in 2012 3 website davidyurman.com this contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . june 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message david yurman inc. is a privately held american designer jewelry company 1 founded by david yurman born october 12 1942 in new york city and sybil yurman born december 10 1942 in new york city and headquartered in new york city . 2 there are currently a total of 32 david yurman boutiques in north america and worldwide . 3 contents 1 history 2 advertising 3 honors and awards 4 social responsibility 5 references 6 external links history edit david yurman grew up on long island new york . at age 16 he met cuban welder and sculptor ernesto gonzales who taught him the direct welding techniques that inform yurman s work today . after a year at new york university david left college and spent the next five years hitchhiking between greenwich village venice and big sur immersing himself in the beatnik and san francisco renaissance cultural movements . in the early 1960s david apprenticed for several years with modernist sculptor jacques lipchitz . he also established his own studio in greenwich village and worked for various sculptors including theodore roszak . in the late 1960s david became the shop foreman for sculptor hans van de bovenkamp and it was in this studio that david met the painter sybil kleinrock his future wife and business partner . in the early 1970s david and sybil moved to carmel in putnam county 50 miles north of new york city and formed a company called putnam art works which specialized in sculptural jewelry . throughout the next decade david and sybil exhibited their jewelry designs sculptures and paintings at various galleries and craft fairs . through putnam art works the yurmans learned the marketplace for fine crafts and artisanal jewelry . they married in 1979 and founded the david yurman company a year later with sybil yurman acting as a co creator and collaborator in all facets of the business . their son evan yurman was born on january 31 1982 . in 1987 david yurman debuted his jewelry designs at the world watch and jewelry show in basel switzerland . david yurman became a member of the council of fashion designers of america in 1999 . in 1977 david was chosen as one of twelve jewelers to exhibit at the first new designer gallery at the jewelers of america show in new york city . in 1982 yurman introduced what became his signature piece the cable bracelet a twisted helix adorned with gemstones on its end caps . he called the bracelet and related designs renaissance and it has become one of his most enduring collections . his cable design evolved to become the thread that connects all of his collections . advertising edit in 2000 david and sybil yurman hired the david lipman advertising agency and photographer peter lindbergh for their first advertising campaign that was shot in st. barts with amber valletta as the face of the brand . in the following years many prominent supermodels such as kate moss gisele b ndchen and kate upton have also appeared in david yurman advertising campaigns . citation needed honors and awards edit 1980 intergold award from the world gold council for a gold wire and diamond necklace design that was the forerunner of the iconic cable motif 1981 designer of the year from the cultured pearl associations of america and japan for innovative use of pearls 2003 star gazer award from fashion group international 2004 lifetime achievement award at the jic gem awards 2007 style etoile award from savannah college of art and design 2011 lifetime achievement award from the american gem society the first time a jewelry designer received this award 2013 couture human spirit award from the couture show 2013 annual visionaries award from the museum of arts and design social responsibility edit the yurmans formalized a lifelong commitment to charitable causes by establishing the david & sybil yurman humanitarian and arts foundation in 2001 . 4 the foundation presents david yurman angel awards to individuals who support charities and the arts through their donations and volunteerism . past recipients include steven spielberg elton john and leonard slatkin . the foundation also provides support for a variety of charitable initiatives including the whitney museum of american art studio in a school the breast cancer research foundation and the make a wish foundation . david yurman also created a pin for the silver shield foundation benefiting the families of new york city firefighters and policemen . references edit chevalier michel 2012 . luxury brand management . singapore john wiley & sons . isbn 978 1 118 17176 9 . david yurman 1 2 external links edit david yurman at the fashion model directory retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title david yurman & oldid 744281121 categories companies based in new york cityamerican brandsamerican jewellersfashion accessory brandsluxury brandscompanies established in 1980watch brands1942 birthsliving peopleamerican jewshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from june 2014all articles with a promotional toneall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage 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