Celia Sebiri

Celia Sebiri (1913-2006) was an American jewelry designer active in the 1940s-1980s.

Biography Sebiri was born 17 March 1913, Her husband was a meat broker, and in the 1970s, they lived on Greenwich Square, Washington. She died on 1 April 2006, aged 93, in New York. Her daughter, Karen Sebiri, also became a jewelry designer.

Jewelry design As a jewelry designer Sebiri was known particularly for her work in silver, which she treated as if it were more valuable than it already was. In 1974 Sebiri described her inspirations as coming from anywhere from passages of literature to dried up leaves. In the 1980s she designed jewelry for Avon.