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here's a new storefront in jewelry based on one's life-
town that boasts an ultra- style and tastes. The store is
contemporary interior and meant to be a comfortable at-
art deco sophistication.
mosphere."
On one side of a Greek column
Mr. Gross, 26, got his start in
is a hand-made rosewood
the business at age 15,
coffee bar; on the other is
with a local jeweler whose
Matthew Gross
shop his mother patron-
a couch, chairs and coffee
of M HG
table.
Jewelry Studio ized.
Sound like the latest
"I was into design al-
in Ber kley.
coffeehouse to pop up in
ready. I just showed him
Royal Oak? Nope.
my drawings, and he of-
It's the home of jeweler fered me a job," he says.
Although his employer al-
Matthew Gross' MHG Jewelry
Studio, which opened in June in lowed him to design, his main
a space on 12 Mile Road in the task was polishing the jewelry.
heart of Berkley.
He began taking classes at
Opposite the coffee bar, which Oakland Community College in
Mr. Gross designed and built, is jewelry-making and architec-
a jewelry showcase that displays tural drafting before attending
examples of his artistry and the Gemological Institute of
some of the gemstones he uses America in California. In 1991,
in his pieces. Behind that is the Mr. Gross graduated with the
studio area where he designs highest level of gemological
and creates his art.
training available.
Returning to the Oak Park
"The main focus is design,"
he explains. "People can come area, he continued to work for
in, sit down, and we design. various jewelers and to take