Teacher Professional training in gold- and silversmithing in Schoonhoven I am pleased to share that I have started my new (part-time) position as a Gold and Silversmithing teacher at Zadkine Vakschool Schoonhoven — the only MBO program in the Netherlands in this unique field. After 30 years of experience in the beautiful craft of gold- […]
Major clearance sale! To make room for new projects, I’m currently offering a large portion of my previous collections at great discounts. The sale collection includes: – My own work from previous collections – Pieces by other designers that were once for sale in my former gallery at the Spiegelgracht – Occasions and unique finds
Louie Vega receives the Tuning Fork Bracelet On Friday, September 26, 2025, DJ legend Louie Vega performed at Het Sieraad, Postjesweg 1 in Amsterdam. This is the building where my grandfather received his technical training, back when it was still called the W. Maas Geesteranus Technical School. He later developed the alarm systems that protect
Toots, today a 100 years old, my special and very musical God. I’m glad I got to see, hear and meet him often. Here, in 2002, when I had been playing the chromatic harmonica myself for just two years, on exactly one like Toots, I gave him a silver mouthpiece that I had invented and
іди на хуй “Go fuck yourself” 13 brave men spoke these words. Violence solves nothing. It is easier to break something than to make something whole or more beautiful. But let’s at least do our best. Here’s my small part for a better world. Silver necklace handmade by MOYA. 47 cm long. For the highest
20-02-2002 – 20-02-2022 20 YEARS MOYA Marleen Guthschmidt – gallery Guthschmidt The Hague “Ten years to learn the trade, ten years to fix the mistakes and ten years (or more) to harvest.” The first two decades are over. After GoldsmithingSchooI I started in my parents’ garden shed, via the Jordaan to my friends in the
The gallery at the Spiegelgracht will close in 2022 After ten wonderful years on the most beautiful canal in Amsterdam, the gallery will close in 2022, because the landlord wants to sell the entire property soon. This means that in the coming months I will be looking for a new location, where I can continue
Some clients have been close to my career, celebrating milestones with a design from MOYA. This time Wim commissioned me to design a necklace for his wife. Her wish was a romantic necklace with leaves and twigs and an interchangeable pendant. And so, for her 50th birthday, she received this yellow gold handmade romantic necklace
A Legacy of Love: Last year a customer lost her father and three weeks later her mother passed away due to lovesickness, a great loss. At Algordanza in Switzerland, she had two memorial diamonds made, made exclusively from the carbon isolated from the cremation ash from the beloved deceased. It takes 500 grams to make