Karats
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Vail, 81657
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Karats is a Vail Village jewelry shop built around materials with a long past. Its founder, Daniel Telleen, arrived in Vail in 1970, and his pieces pair gold and gemstones with things like ancient coins, fossilized bone, meteorites and 225-million-year-old ammonite fossils, or set diamonds in 22-karat gold bezels into old African wrought-iron medicine bracelets.
Over the years the shop has added a small circle of other makers whose work shares that sense of age: Carolyn Tyler's jewelry made in Bali, sculptor Steve Tobin, and pearls collected by the late Koji Kawamoto. It suits someone looking for a single piece with a story, or who wants an inherited piece reworked into something they will wear.
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Vail, 81657
Karats
Karats
About Karats
Karats is a Vail Village jewelry shop built around materials with a long past. Its founder, Daniel Telleen, arrived in Vail in 1970, and his pieces pair gold and gemstones with things like ancient coins, fossilized bone, meteorites and 225-million-year-old ammonite fossils, or set diamonds in 22-karat gold bezels into old African wrought-iron medicine bracelets.
Over the years the shop has added a small circle of other makers whose work shares that sense of age: Carolyn Tyler's jewelry made in Bali, sculptor Steve Tobin, and pearls collected by the late Koji Kawamoto. It suits someone looking for a single piece with a story, or who wants an inherited piece reworked into something they will wear.
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