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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: |
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To design, make and sell unique products. |
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To offer an exclusive bespoke service to our
customers, be they retail or corporate. |
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To build up our own design and production
facilities in London, creating a skilled employment and
manufacturing base here in the UK. |
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| 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. |
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Stephen Einhorn Shop |
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| 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. |
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STEPHEN EINHORN, Managing Director and Designer |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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JANE BEST, Director and Puppet Master |
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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. |
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LINDA JONES, Media and Communications Manager |
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| 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. |
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RUTH VAN LOEN, Jeweller and Workshop Assistant
Manager |
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| 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. |
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BETHANY Showroom Sales Assistant |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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RAJ ASHRA, Head of Finance |
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| 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. |
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