Alma Pihl

Alma Theresia Pihl-Klee (15 November 1888 – 15 July 1976) was one of the two female designers at Fabergé and one of the best known female Fabergé workmasters.

Career Alma Pihl was born in Moscow in 1888 to a family of Finnish origin. and sister of jeweler and goldsmith Oskar Woldemar Pihl. As a self-trained designer, she started to work for Fabergé in 1909.

She designed the famous Winter Easter Egg in 1913 and Mosaic Easter Egg in 1914, which now belongs to the collection of the British monarchy, and also many pieces of fine jewelry of which the most famous is a collection of snowflake jewelry designed for Emanuel Nobel.

Pihl moved to Finland due to the Russian Revolution at the age of 32. She worked at a Swedish-language school in Kuusankoski for nearly 25 years.