Michael Alexander Jewelry

Michael Alexander ended his budding Wall Street career and started designing jewelry in 1995. He was living on the Caribbean island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The catalyst to becoming a jewelry designer was the influence of the jewelry culture and the many jewelry stores in the Virgin Islands. Although the Caribbean Islands are saturated with commercial jewelry, Michael immediately saw his niche: There were no unique original contemporary fine jewelry designs available in any of the stores. Shortly thereafter, hurricanes Lois and Marylyn hit the islands and destroyed Michael’s home. At this point he relocated back to New York City. In order to learn how to hand make the designs he was dreaming of, Michael attended jewelry school at Studio Jewelers, a jewelry bench school in New York City, and received a comprehensive jewelers degree after six months of intensive bench work. He also received private one-on-one education and training for rendering, wax and cad modeling and advanced stone setting. His design skills are self-taught, which leaves him unencumbered by the rules of the mass manufactured jewelry industry and free to pursue his own original path of creating original and wearable precious sculpture.