Stephen Einhorn London - Designer Jewellery / Jewelry

Stephen Einhorn Ltd was founded in London in 1995. The aim of the company is that with our specialist design and manufacturing skills we will create innovative products and offer a personalised service that other companies cannot equal.

Our aims are:

	To design, make and sell unique products.

	To offer an exclusive bespoke service to our customers, be they retail or corporate.

	To build up our own design and production facilities in London, creating a skilled employment and manufacturing base here in the UK.

Stephen Einhorn himself designs our core product range that continually evolves, as well as custom making a large number of bespoke commissions for individual customers. Everything is hand made. Our Shop and workshops are in Islington, London. Everything is available either through the Stephen Einhorn Shop and Showroom at 210 Upper Street, Islington, N1 1RL or worldwide through this secure online shop.

PHILOSOPHY

Stephen Einhorn Shop

Stephen Einhorn creates designs for individuals. All of our jewellery can be customised to suit your own style and we also offer a bespoke jewellery service where you can commission a one-off, custom designed and hand made piece. Our overall company aim - to our customers and ourselves - is to be approachable, innovative and to create products that we all find exciting. We also aim to run an ethically responsible company and have our own jewellery workshops in London. We work in a low-stress environment where everyone within the company is valued and treated with respect. Our quality of life and that of our employees is a high priority and we do not want work to completely dominate any of our lives. We do not ask our employees to work more than 7 hours a day, 5 days a week unless they choose to do so. It is a strong desire of the company that anyone who works for us is happy and that they receive as much training as they require in order to increase their skills and provide our customers with the high quality of service we think they deserve.

STEPHEN EINHORN, Managing Director and Designer

Stephen Einhorn is a rarity today amongst artisans - he can make almost anything in almost any material. Some of his products stand alone as conceptual works of art but are in fact entirely functional. Stephen believes that this is where art should be – in everyday objects in everyday life.

His breakable packaging is a testament to his different spin on normally perceived products. There is something magical about having to crack open a painted plaster Heart or Egg to discover your gift inside.

Stephen is always up for a challenge and with that in mind he opened his own shop in 1995 for the purpose of making every single product in it and this he has achieved. His products range from jewellery to bathroom taps, from Nail Stools to his patented Candle Cards. Everything has been designed by him and manufactured in his London workshops.

His innovative and eclectic take on design and manufacturing began with him leaving school at 18 with a couple of provisional patents (that he had researched during his school lunch hour) already under his belt. He then decided the way forward was to gain as much work experience as possible. This included training as an electroplater, master pattern maker, mould maker, industrial design proto-typer, and apprenticing at an established Silversmith. Then, in 1983 a chance meeting with a film director led him to being commissioned to recreate a Welsh Valley in miniature. This in turn inspired him to form his own model making company in 1985 called “Don’t Panic", which soon became a leader in its field, making models for the advertising, television and film industries.

By the tender age of 37 he could no longer ignore the fact that he was using his considerable skills to make other people’s designs and not his own. He gave up model making, sold his house and formed his own company - Stephen Einhorn Ltd. Since then he has not looked back.

It is through his vast experience of design and manufacturing that Stephen completely understands the aesthetic and practical angle of everything that he is commissioned to make. He enjoys the whole process from initial concept and design, to working out the problems during production and overseeing the quality of the finished piece. It is in this way he is unique.

For these very reasons he is regularly commissioned by large companies, to design products for them. He does this alongside running his own successful design label and manufacturing business.

JANE BEST, Director and Puppet Master

Jane trained for many years with the Kirov Ballet, Bognor Regis. Due to a sprained ankle she had to give up her career as principal dancer. With a bursary from the Princess Trust she qualified as a horse trainer specialising in Dainty Dressage, a new Olympic equestrian category. Again, due to a bad horse crash during competition, she ended up in hospital with total amnesia. When she came to, sadly she thought she was a concert composer. However she was saved by a chance meeting with designer Stephen Einhorn who set her on the road to recovery and helped her discover her many hidden talents. Pooling all her unique expertise she created the award-winning online soap Destinee and Dirk. Her new band the Glitter Movement are currently on tour in the Shetland Isles.

LINDA JONES, Media and Communications Manager

Linda has been with Stephen Einhorn Ltd for 4 years. Within that time she has been able to marry her serious qualifications and job with a less serious attitude to life. She spends all her money on travel and going to obscure theatre productions. Indeed she is one of the only people to have seen the Pocket Sized Theatre Company’s version of “Bridge over the River Kwai” starring Nicole Kidman. She is a much sought-after travel companion as she is an expert in “Travel Crisis Management”. She has even been invited to appear on the television program 'Nature Survival' presented by expert Ray Sheers. Her skills have got her out of many scrapes including staring down a pack of wild dogs in Turkey, extracting her arm which was trapped in the door of a moving German train, whilst not letting go of her backpack.... Clever! Avoiding being kicked out of China for her expired visa, by sweet talking a lovely Chinese policeman (name withheld). For obvious reasons she is a very valuable member of the Stephen Einhorn team.

RUTH VAN LOEN, Jeweller and Workshop Assistant Manager

Ruth was invited by Stephen Spielberg to go to Hollywood to be groomed for overnight success. However at the last minute she turned the offer down to take the job in the Stephen Einhorn workshops. Her previous training includes being a tester for Dyson Vacuum Cleaners and she was awarded the Steven Hawkins Research Grant at Cambridge University in Domestic Science. Her first novel ‘Diamonds in the Filter’ won the prestigious Instant Coffee Book Prize for fiction. Her future aspirations are to master the George Forman low fat grill and to become a Bee Keeper.

BETHANY Showroom Sales Assistant

Bethany is originally from a small village outside Newcastle where she says, "Nothing ever happens and everyone is related to everyone else, if you know what I mean". She now lives in London and we're glad she does. She has a wide range of interests and is currently being taught how to play poker, which she says she is really bad at. Its probably because she hasn't got a good poker face as she is always smiling. She loves black and white films and thinks Gene Kelly is sublime. Worryingly her favourite television program of all time is Baywatch and her favourite character is Mitch. (Pull in that stomach David).

Kristjan

Kristjan is the head jeweller at Stephen Einhorn. He is very highly skilled member of the Stephen Einhorn team. He has a licence to sail a 30-ton boat, which we will eventually find a use for I feel certain. He has always been told that he is related to Santa Claus as he is from very near the North Pole. He was born in Iceland and is in fact Icelandic. He plays the drums and has occasional jamming sessions with Ross. His first band was called ‘The little Scared Punk’ and they played Tom Waites covers. We have been reliably informed that whilst he is a devil at the drums, he is definitely not a singer.

He likes the Karma Sutra, Indian food and playing darts. He is also an extreme polka dancer. Who knew? He dislikes raisins, operatic sopranos and Oprah.

Kirsty

Kirsty is another very welcome addition to the Stephen Einhorn team. She works in our London showroom. She likes antique markets and antiques (could be why she likes working here!) She loves anything to do with Pin ups and Burlesque. She has a jewellery degree.

One of her dreams is to own her own camper van and to live in Cornwall for a summer selling her own jewellery. She loves pizza and chocolate raisins, polka dots and anything red. She hates beef burgers, Indian food, blandness and the colour beige.

Anna

Anna has a jewellery degree and works in the workshop as a….jeweller! She is very highly skilled in the wondrous art of engraving. She has loads of friends on face book but some of them may be imaginary?.... She was given a white kitten for Christmas who she loves called Coco. Her boyfriend plays the sitar. She loves all kinds of music except jazz, (can you play jazz on a sitar?) She likes food and travel (which is also lucky as she might die if she didn’t) She hates pastel shades. If you use predictive text on a mobile, Anna’s name comes out as ‘bomb’ which is her nickname.

Ross

Ross works in the workshop. He is a jeweller AND he has a degree, impressive! He is from a small fishing village in the southwest of England. His father was a fisherman and his father before him. He likes fish, but he does also like jewellery (you can just imagine what his father and grandfather think about that!). He likes all sports including Tiddlywinks and Curling (hair?) but these are not his favourites. He is a very strong member of the Stephen Einhorn darts Team, which is highly competitive and yet unbeaten! Apparently in Devon where Ross is from they throw Wellies. His wife also likes fish.

Lily

Lily is our shop manager. She has been around for as long as the shop has and yes she does remember ALL past customers and shop policies over the years, so don’t bother trying to pull the wool over her eyes. In fact, she really likes wool, and is currently involved in a project to re-create The Glitter Movement’s finest moments in knitted figurines. She also likes books. See? She’s sitting on a pile of them. This, and the fact that she wears glasses, makes her terribly terribly bright. Like her shoes. Lily also directs community theatre so not only is she terribly terribly bright, she is also terribly terribly worthy.

Lisa

Lisa says that when not at work she lives in virtual reality. She prefers the virtual world as she says it is more interesting and a lot cleaner than the one we actually live in, especially the travelling side of things (15 seconds from one side of the Nintendo Village to the other). She is a keen collector of Gene Dolls and has actually met Estella Meilleure who was doing a book signing of her latest book, "My Rock and Roll Life in Plastic" at a Florida convention earlier this year. Lisa is a crazy knitter and is also a really big fan of Ray Mears (aka Sheers) who she hopes to bump into one day whilst mushrooming in the Woods.

Justyna


Justyna is polish. She has a degree in Economics. She loves polish food particularly Pierogi which is a dumpling with cheese and Goabki, which is stuffed cabbage leaves mmmmmm..... Justyna loves dancing to anything Latin with a driving beat particularly Salsa and Samba. She likes all things Latin especially her Latin boyfriend. She is a very dark horse, beneath her shy and very demure exterior she is in actual fact a bit of a goer! She can drink anyone one in the workshop under the table, and I mean everyone, and believe me those men have tried! She likes all drinks except Vodka. We also discovered that she is incredibly good at Bowling and beat everyone at our last Christmas do. We aren't letting her anywhere near the Darts board because we don’t like to see grown men cry.

RAJ ASHRA, Head of Finance

Raj has the heaviest job at Stephen Einhorn. He follows the money and can only be contacted in writing. Please do not ask for credit as you will be disappointed.