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BY GERALD OCHS
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Edmund Kavanagh of Jewelry by Edmund in Washington is one of the foremost practitioners in the world of the ancient art of repousse—the art of transforming thin sheets of silver or gold into ornaments by tapping out a design from the reverse side of the metal.
Edmund and his wife Bridie have conducted their business in the United States and abroad, and they joined us in Rappahannock last year after spending nearly 30 years at work in Westbury, New York.
Edmund brought a career studded with honors and achievements— he was voted Westbury’s Business Man of the Year in 1996; he has created works for the Shah of Iran and Haile Selassie of Ethiopia; he fashioned a rose bowl to commemorate the golden wedding of President and Mrs. Eisenhower and a replica, shown at the New York World’s Fair, of the ruby encrusted Dali heart; he made a sterling silver drum set for the Zambian army and ceremonial maces for the US Merchant Marine Academy, the Coast Guard, and the Marine Corps Band.
His education at the National College of Art in Dublin and as an apprentice in London provided him with the understanding and techniques of repousee, but his eye for detail and design, his patience, and his innate sense of perfection brought him to the pinnacle of his art.
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