About The Designer

Jill Elisofon

I have been a resident of West Palm Beach, Florida since 1996 and started creating one-of-a-kind tribal inspired necklaces in 2006 made predominantly of exotic and vintage pieces from around the globe combined with assorted natural and semi-precious stones. 

My interest in unusual beads and stones from all over the world started as a teenager with gifts from my father, Eliot Elisofon.  As a LIFE photographer and filmmaker, he was often on exotic adventures and brought me amazing gifts of rare African beads, carved bone and tortoise from New Guinea, and so much more.   In some of my necklaces, I use  these rare beads and pendants collected by my father in the 1960s.  I’m always hunting for unique treasures to make into necklaces and on my last trip to India, I collected Buddhist related pendants and unusual beads.  

One of my previous collections of unique necklaces  was inspired by Frida Kahlo and made specifically to complement the Frida Kahlo and Mexican Modernism exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL) in October 2021.  In one Frida inspired necklace, I have incorporated a rare carved bone pendant from a headdress  that my father collected from a remote tribe in New Guinea in the 1960s. 

 I started designing necklaces for museum shops beginning with the Norton Museum of Art’s exhibition, Rare Bird of Fashion featuring Iris Apfel’s extraordinary couture clothing, which is artfully mixed with her exquisite ethnic jewelry.  Also, I have created a collection of necklaces inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe.  These unique pieces and other original necklaces were showcased at museum shops around the country.