Mark London designs are unique.
Marks’ meticulously crafted jewels are marked by a strength and elegance of design; each Mark London Original is a contemporary classic made to last. Drawing from a wide range of influences from fine art and architecture to nature and technology Mark’s pieces are diverse and varied and he can adapt his style to compliment his customers spirit, personality, taste, style and fashion sense.
Mark’s journey into fine jewelry began in 1972 in Napa, California and has spanned over five decades, continuing to this day to Hot Springs, Arkansas since the Spring of 2022.
As Mark describes his early jewelry history, it goes like this:
“At the age of 14, I was strolling across my middle school campus and a voice in my head said someday you are going to be a Jeweler I stopped and said to myself What? Where did that come from? At nineteen I found myself running a bead store (Bead World) in Santa Cruz, California. I could not stop myself from visiting the local jewelry stores (especially the one or two who actually made some of their jewelry) and staring carefully at all the details of the work. I spent a lot of spare time looking up all the jewelry making and design related books I could find to read at the Santa Cruz library. The process and challenge of jewelry captured my attention and my imagination.”
“I moved back to Napa in a few years to form my partnership in a humble retail jewelry space with my sister Helen and her husband Paul. I completed my first 18 lessons in the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) Diamond Course (a correspondence course) in 3 weeks. I practiced and studied in my sisters garage all day long, every day for many months.”
1973 Mark and his partners opened Harlequin Original Jewelry Designs in the newly erected Grape Yard Shopping Center in Napa, California, where Mark began to develop and grow his signature design style. Over the years many prominent wine makers and influential people from silicon valley acquired Marks’ pieces and help to build his west coast reputation.
1989 Mark enters and wins first prize in the Lazare Kaplan International Diamond Design Contest for his simply sculpted solitaire diamond ring which became known as the Harlequin Ring and was sold nationally to many of Lazare Kaplan Diamond customers.
2002 Mark relocates to Klamath Falls and establishes Mark London Design, custom jewelry studio, catering to West coast clientele and customers from around the U.S and foreign countries.
2017 Today Mark is back to working for private clients in the way he dreamed of doing 30 years ago by using computer aided jewelry design software and conducting CAD sessions with clients and creating new pieces using all of his former and still evolving hand skills, including hand engraving, fabrication and wax carving and stone cutting, along with his 3D printing of his CAD designs.
So far, Mark has custom made and designed jewelry for thousands of private customers and left a wake of smiling faces on his journey. You are invited to join the chorus of those singing his praises!
2020 Mark has begun to teach classes and to create instructional videos for other jewelry designers in computer aided jewelry design software and is marketing the newest CAD jewelry product (Jewelry CAD Dream) to jewelers. We do laser welding with a high end laser welder designed for fine jewelry assembly and repair and restoration
2022 Mark has begun a new chapter of inspiration and creativity in Hot Springs, Arkansas! “This place is so beautiful - surrounded by nature and so quiet”. We can still ship anywhere in the country and around the world.
2023 This has been a great year making original custom pieces, primarily for my clients here and on the west coast, working in my studio and improving my drawing and painting skills and teaching jewelry classes at Emergent Arts in Hot Springs.
You are invited to join Mark London in his private virtual fine jewelry design studio - click on VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT
Back in the late 1990’s Mark London had an inspiration for a new design That would reflect our willingness to live together in peace mutual respect and harmony with compassion for each other in an effort to develop understanding of other peoples’ principles, spiritual practices, religions and other unique personal human traits.
Mark thought long and hard about the elements of the design and wondered how to put them all together. The original inspiration was to put a collection of world religious symbols together in a sphere shaped pendant; however, that design Left some of the symbols invisible to the viewer.
After several years of contemplation Mark finally received the inspiration that became the new design. The composition would have 7 symbols of older and current world religions arranged in a circle that was domed to indicate the curvature of the earth which contains us all, and they would be equally sized and balanced and connected by one continuous element of the design that demonstrated the Principles espoused by the religions and practices represented by the Seven symbols and all the others represented by the triangular spaces in between: The fundamental principles of love, compassion, acceptance and faith.
In the summer of 2001 , Mark sat down and started drawing and then translated his idea onto his computer screen and laid out the design that he would have etched onto a copper plate and then Mark would subsequently cut the plate apart and dome up the individual elements of the plate into the shape that would define what he would call the circle of peace. Mark then polished and finished the details of the design and made a rubber mold of the pattern.
During this global pandemic it is affecting all of humanity at the same time what better time to use this symbol to demonstrate the better angels of our nature to come together to create a more peaceful harmonizing world it's filled with mutual respect love an appreciation for one another
.So Mark has decided to make his inspired pendant available to as many people as possible and offer them at half of the original price. Mark will use any available profits from the design to promote World Peace and respect for the planet that feeds and supports us all.