Sakamoto

Eddie Sakamoto, a third generation Japanese-American, was born in 1953 in Seattle, Washington. Sakamoto was trained in graphic design and had a great interest in architecture and industrial design. However, after a five year employment with a prominent jewelry designer, he began to see jewelry as an alternate means of design expression. Aspiring to present his ideas to a larger audience, Sakamoto moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to create his own jewelry design company, Concept 1 - Sakamoto.

Sakamoto

Leading jewelry designer, author and educator Alan Revere describes Sakamoto's work, "using precious materials as a sculpture uses clay, Sakamoto creates hefty rings, bracelets and pendants displaying a disregard for gold's intrinsic value which is uncharacteristic of material-conscious jewelry designers. Sakamoto's striking visual statements are a result of the dramatic interplay of forms, each of which is carefully massaged until a harmonious and balanced solution is achieved. His designs often employ large unusually set diamonds as their focal point, sometimes including an embellishment of channel-set smaller diamonds. Sakamoto's flawless artwork would be just as intriguing if executed as twenty-foot tall garden sculptures as they are in miniature on the finger of a sophisticated woman."