Temple St. Clair founded her company in 1986 in Florence, Italy, beginning her partnership with the world’s finest goldsmiths – the centuries-old Florentine jewelers’ guild. That same year, St. Clair became the first fine jeweler to be represented and carried by Barneys New York.

St. Clair celebrates a connoisseur level of gemstones with one-of-a-kind pieces born out of an ongoing quest for the rarest stones in the world.

She received a B.A. in Italian Studies from Smith College and a M.A. in Italian Renaissance Literature from Middlebury College.

In 2017, Temple St. Clair joined Louis Comfort Tiffany and Alexander Calder as the third American jewelry designer whose work is represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts at the Louvre in Paris.