Since 1994, Marco Polo Designs has been creating quality, inspired glass jewelry. Their designs are intended to bring you joy and reflect your own individual beauty. This jewelry is about color and light, blending and enhancing your own personal style.
Marco Polo Designs offers one of the largest and finest collections of handmade glass jewelry in the United States. Oregon jewelry designer, Jane Barthelemy, designs colorful necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pendants in contemporary and innovative, multi-layered glass designs.
Jane infuses the finest quality of old-world craftsmanship with eclectic, energized and contemporary style. Playing with color and light, she creates glass jewelry in beautiful hues and forms using a variety of bead lampworking techniques.
Their jewelry studio in Portland, Oregon keeps an immense collection of the highest quality handmade glass beads and findings. Their favorite components are Murano glass, Bohemian glass, gemstones and natural freshwater pearls.
Their exclusive glass lamp beads are made entirely by hand over a single flame. Most of their exclusive beads have many layers of glass to create a special effect in color and texture. In making a handmade bead, each color must be layered one at a time while keeping the molten glass at a constant temperature, or the bead will crack.
Focus on Color - Jane creates each design, meticulously blending sumptuous hues and forms together, using a wide variety of materials and techniques. She studies fashion color forecasts each season, carefully sculpting the color statement for each collection to integrate changing fashions and color preferences. Jane says: “I love the process of making a completely new color statement each season. I usually introduce one dominant new color, and look for unusual ways to combine two or more colors to create a fresh vibration.”
Marco Polo Designs uses superior American-made findings of sterling silver and gold vermeil which is hypoallergenic and nickel-free.
