Farhad Nooshazar
Fused glass artist Farhad Nooshazar hand creates the Studio 305 Collection of finely crafted dichroic glass jewelry. He and his wife Katie have been making jewelry for over 15 years.
Each piece of jewelry is fired in a glass kiln at temperatures of 1500 to 1800 degrees. Farhad handcuts as many as 15 to 20 pieces of glass, layering them to create unique designs before carefully fusing and annealing them to ensure durability, longevity, and style. Farhad does not use pattern bars or mass produce his work. Instead, each piece is individually designed, carefully handcut, and then hand assembled. They are painstakingly ground to ensure perfect shapes. Many pieces require as many as three firings and multiple grindings by hand before they are ready for findings to be added. This is a time-consuming process but the results are dazzling.
Almost all of Farhad’s jewelry features dichroic glass. It is particularly exciting and difficult to work with as it adds dazzling color and great depth to each piece. Dichroic glass captures and reflects light, often looking different depending on the background on which it is placed. It has both a transmitted color and a reflected color which gives it its vibrant quality but also makes it very difficult to photograph effectively.
Only the best quality of findings are used in our jewelry. All bails, chains, and earwires are either sterling silver or fine silver.
