Renowned Jewelry designer to hold trunk show at Doris McLendon’s Jewelry
By Maxine Hunter

   Dorris McLendon is well known locally for her beautiful jewelry as well as her excellent customer service, but the public may not be aware of her friendship with nationally-known jewelry designer Paula Crevoshay.

   Paula Crevoshay’s jewelry creations can be found in the collections of museums, including the Smithsonian Institute, as well as adorning many fabulous and fabled jewelry collectors. When the “Geroge Pendant” was presented to the Smithsonian, Crevoshay was honored with a black-tie reception. She has created jewelry pieces for Paula Zhan, Carly Simon, and had begun creating pieces for Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy just before her death.

    Crevoshy became friends with Doris McLendon through another jeweler, and McLendon invited Crevoshay to show her work in her old location. After the show, the two stayed in touch. Their friendship goes beyond business and centers in their mutual love of beautiful gemstones extraordinarily designed and arranged.

    When McLendon moved to her new location at 9387 Poplar Avenue, near The Fresh Market in Germantown, Crevoshay was excited and wanted to have a second show. McLendon hosted this second, very successful, show in December 2004.

    Now, McLendon is excited that Crevoshay is returning for a trunk show on Friday and Saturday, November 18 and 19. She says, “It is an honor and a privilege to invite you to meet one of the greatest jewelry designers of our time.”

    Trained as a painter and sculptor, Crevoshay became familiar with jewelry making while living in India and sine that time has never lost her fascination with it. Her deep knowledge of the fine arts and anthropology have combined with her love for jewelry making to create jewels of astounding beauty and meaning.

    An incredibly rich array of gem stones go into Crevoshay’s creations, many of which are much rare than diamonds. While here, she will be previewing a collection that she is putting together for a major museum in the nation’s capital. Visitors will be able to experience these pieces in a much closer and more intimate way than they might when the jewels go on display in the museum.

    Paula Crevoshay is known as the best colorist working jewelry today, and the best aspect of this is that she designs her pieces to enhance the natural beauty that is every woman’s birthright. Among her collection you will find stones and designs that bring out the best features of your coloring and bone structure, as well as pieces that bring you joy as you wear them.

    Crevoshay’s artful and instinctive us of color, design and balance have caused her to be compared to Lalique and Faberge.

    She graduated with honors from VCU in Richmond, Virginia and won a full scholarship to the University of Wisconsin, where she earned her Masters of Arts degree in 1977. She married Fulbright Scholar George Crevoshay in 1978 and moved to India for three years, where she was given two one-woman shows of her painting and sculptures. She returned to America in 1981, where she launched her first collection of one-of-a-kind art jewels. Her work has been shown in such museums as the Smithsonian and the Carnegie and can be found in many important public and private collections.

    Using unique and rare stones is the foundation of The Crevoshay Collections. Each design is hand crafted in 18 karat gold. The Crevoshay Collection are jewels to treasure. Hours for the trunk showing are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday