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Above: Legacy's daughter-and-mother team of Alisa Daien and Ilene Blaz have an eye for the exqui-
site. Below: Jan Levin (with a customer) has an onsite workshop at Pentimento to forge the patterns
created on paper. "The design actually takes longer than the physical work," says Levin.
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< matching wedding bands with
engagement rings or matching bands for
the bride and groom, and that the wed-
ding and engagement rings can be worn
together or on different hands.
While Jewish tradition holds that
a wedding ring should be of flawless,
unadorned gold to symbolize wholeness
and eternity of commitment, brides are
forging ahead with new preferences. For
the ceremony, however, many Jewish
brides will wear a simple gold band —
which Jan Levin, owner of Pentimento,
will loan out to brides, selecting very
different designs for all the time after
the ceremony.
With a more contemporary perspec-
tive than her colleagues at Legacy, Levin
likes to indulge personal preferences by
creating individual looks for her shop
and custom pieces for her clients as well
as other merchandise. In her Bloomfield
Township shop, too, Levin displays her
contemporarily flaired artistic aesthetic
with paintings of semi-nudes placed
amid Venetian mirrors and a framed,
wall-mounted showcase.
Levin, who has been making jewelry
since attending Southfield-Lathrup
High School, studied metalsmithing at
Wayne State University. Gaining experi-
ence working for a jewelry manufacturer,
she opened her first shop in Royal Oak
before moving to Bloomfield Township,
where she's been for 12 years.
"I often buy rings and add edgings
and stones," explains Levin. "I've used
manufactured rings as parts, and I think
the wedding band should be dictated by
the engagement ring and be in a similar
style."
The idea for adding to manufactured
pieces is captured in the name of the
shop, taken from a passage in playwright
Lillian Hellman's memoir of the same
name. Pentimento is a term describing
when an artist paints over his first effort;
paint on the canvas then becomes trans-
parent and reveals underneath lines from
an old concept ultimately replaced by a
later vision. "There are many new inter-
pretations of the classics," Levin says.
"I consider many of my designs antique
reinterpretations." ❑
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Legacy Jewelry, Birmingham. (248) 723-9975; legacyestatejewelry.com .
Pentimento Fine Jewelry, Bloomfield Township. (248) 644-2545; pentimentofinejewelry.com .