About the Artist

Whirlwind Design Studio is owned and operated by Barbara Azevedo, a native New Englander who currently resides in RI. She understands the preferences in style and quality that are unique to her customers. 

Over the past eighteen years she has worked in-house for several jewelry companies in the RI/MA area, all the while learning from some of the great masters of the jewelry industry. She was a teacher in the former Jewelry Institute, where she taught both experienced, as well as aspiring artisans.

The results of Barbara's designs and models have been sold by such companies as Tiffany, Disney, Geives and Hawkes of London, J.J.Weston, Time Warner, Angela Cummings, Nieman Marcus, Macy's as well as others including QVC. Her designs and models have included pins, pendants, charms, figurines and rings for both fine and costume jewelry.

After all these years of design and model work for others, Barbara decided to utilize her accumulated experience to design and manufacture from her own studio.

As owner and manager of Whirlwind Design Studio she now brings her artistic talents directly to you, with fine hand crafted jewelry and accessories in gold and silver. She will also do special orders by request.

Never satisfied with hurry-up assembly line products, she is known for her fine quality pieces, made and finished with the same exacting eye for details and qualities that were traditionally exhibited by the old masters who were her mentors. 

Her private label and catalog items include earrings, pins, pendants, charms, cufflinks, figurines and rings for fine jewelry. Whether your order is for a mold, a private label piece, a Whirlwind piece, or a custom piece, the Studio is prepared to deliver the quality you desire.

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