Baubles-And-Bibelots.com sells jewelry designed by Lea Stein & Marie-Christine Pavone
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Lea Stein Jewelry at Baubles-and-Bibelots.com -- 2006 Spring Update
Description
You may have seen them and not even realized what they were, but buried in the piles of costume jewelry and bakelite pieces that you may see at antique shows and flea markets are some fabulous treasures of the late 60's through the early 80's made by a French artist named Lea Stein.
Stein, a French trained artist who was born in Paris in 1931, began making her whimsical pieces of jewelry in the 1969, when her husband, Fernand Steinberger, came up with a process of laminating layers of rhodoid (cellulose acetate sheets) with interesting textures and colors.
The layers were baked overnight with a secret component of his creation and then cut into shapes for various designs of pins, bracelets, earrings and shaped decorative objects. From the side, you can see, in some pieces, as many as 20 layers of cellulose bonded together to make these pieces.
