Our story
From the ground to the finished piece.
Source D'Amour is a two-maker studio in Tempe, Arizona. Les and Jeremy run it, and the work stays under one roof from rough rock to finished piece.
Almost nobody does both halves of that. Lapidary and silversmithing are separate trades, learned separately and usually practiced by separate people, so a stone is normally cut in one shop and set in another. Ours is cut, shaped and polished here, and the silver that holds it is handcrafted here.
Material arrives the way material actually arrives: a curbside haul, a trailer loaded at a show, a collection a family is finally ready to part with. Jeremy does most of the cutting: he saws the rough into slabs, grinds the cabochons and polishes them, which is why we can still tell you where a stone started. He also brings thirty years of cabinet making to the studio, and the casework the finished pieces are shown in is his.
Les does most of the setting, the faceting and the metalsmithing. The silver that holds a stone is handcrafted at his bench. Both of them cross over when a piece asks for it.
Veteran-owned. We are building a small, enduring catalog for collectors, jewelers, and people who like to know the story behind what they carry.
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The makers
Meet Jeremy and Les.
Jeremy
Jeremy has worked wood since he was four years old, in his father's shop. He apprenticed to a master cabinet maker, ran a cabinet shop in Arizona with his brother for twenty-three years, and still builds furniture today as Bough Designs. The casework the pieces are shown in is his. Here he cuts most of what the studio sells, and when a stone will not leave him alone he builds the whole piece himself.
Les
Les works the other end of the bench. He facets, he sets, and the silver that holds a stone has been handcrafted by him. He paints as well: the canvases hanging in the showroom are his, and they are for sale the same as everything else here.
