Home Find Us Contact How to Purchase Shows & Fairs Library
 
  



Amy Sandheim

Amy was the daughter of Julius Wolfe Sandheim who together with his brother, Adolph Abraham, formed the Sandheim Bros. partnership formed in 1875 which by 1915 had a shop at 130 Notting Hill Gate in West London. Described as Jewellers and Silversmiths, Julius had been taught by and executed designs for W.Augustus Steward, the editor of The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmiths trade Journal and Chief Instructor at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
 
Silver Pendant
From this background and with her knowledge of silver casting techniques Amy fashioned her own style of Arts and Crafts jewellery utilising the lost wax cast process, usually set with semi-precious stones, with a preference for moonstones. These she foiled to enhance the brilliance, sometimes even with soft pastel colours that gave them an unusual look. This was based on the Georgian method of foiling paste and was very effective.

Together with her friends Sibyl Dunlop and Dorrie Nossiter she was part of a second wave of inter-war Arts and Crafts designers who left us a legacy of flapper and suffragette jewellery, cleverly designed and executed as well as being colourful. She sold her jewellery at Craft exhibitions and in her fathers shop. The shop closed in the early 1980s.