Lori McLean

Specialties

Jewelry for the People!

Handmade fashion + fine jewelry from over 20 designers, and a little vintage, too.

History

Established in 1992.

After ten happy years in Manhattan’s West Village, we packed it all up and moved across town to a new space in the East Village, officially opening April 6^th, 2015. The new shop focuses more on Lori’s fine jewelry line and custom work. There also remains a curated collection of vintage jewelry, and a varied selection of independent jewelry and homeware artists and designers.

Our guiding credo is «Jewelry for the People!». We believe the world is full of beautiful, well-​made, reasonably priced goodies and our job is to bring them to the people. No snotty attitude, no pompous pretense, just really pretty things wrought with meaning and love. We dream of creating a Wee Shop Manifesto defining our favorite theories on jewelry, the importance of working with one’s hands, learning history through jewelry, faith in mankind, and the joys of New York City living. Until then we invite you to come to our new neighborhood and visit our cozy shop where we promise to do our best to make you happy.

Meet the Business Owner

Lori M.

Business Owner

Lori McLean is a self-​taught jeweler and metalsmith whose foundational background includes formal training in printmaking and design. She began making jewelry in 1991 in San Francisco, where her line of sterling and enamel pieces soon became well known for their layered planes of colorful, translucent resin on textured silver backgrounds.

The store on Grove Street opened in December of 2004, and in 2006, Lori retired her signature enamel line in favor of focusing on a small range of higher-​end, custom designs, and assembling a rare collection of vintage and antique jewelry dating from the Georgian Era through the Art Deco period.

In 2011, Lori began working her way back into full-​blown jewelry production. The new line is a throwback to 18^th and 19^th century design, with the benefit of the unique, wearable settings and finishes which have become Lori’s trademarks.

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