Diversity in the arts has always been in Margarita’s soul which is reflected in her limited edition vintage glass creations. Owning a piece of her jewelry is sharing and enjoying a part of Margarita’s history.  Her designs are about the color and cut of glass. Her love of art and beauty began before she was born. It started in Europe from her Great Great Grandfather who was a pioneer in photography. His photographs and studio equipment are part of a permanent collection at Harvard University’s Houghton Library.

Margarita was born in New York City and raised in Westport, Connecticut by an art director father and a classical pianist mother. In Westport she had private studies in dance and music, studied Fine Arts at the Univ. of Connecticut and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. While in New York she performed off Broadway and on daytime TV. Margarita continued on to Lucca, Italy for private art studies.

Margarita traveled in Europe, eventually settling on the island of Mykonos, Greece. She had a boutique making custom ceramic jewelry for Europeans from a synthetic Italian clay which she hand-painted and baked in the sun.

After experiencing military coups, Margarita returned to the states settling in Rhode Island. She reestablished acting by performing in local live theatre and resumed making jewelry. Her designs featured vintage glass, a medium rich with history. It’s color and cut inspire her creative visions & sensibilities.

She opened an eclectic boutique featuring her work on the Eastside of Providence. Margarita has done custom designs for opera and country western singers and a boutique chain in Tokyo, Japan. Since 1979 to present she has sold her limited edition line across the U.S.A., Virgin Islands and Canada to museums, galleries and select boutiques.

In the late 1980s Margarita’s love of glass was expressed in doing designs with diverse shapes of vintage glass which she appliqued on perfume bottles. This captured the imagination of many people and was greatly successful. The appliqued perfume bottles led to the next step of Margarita creating a fragrance together with a world renown fragrance laboratory. She named the fragrance “Mine” because when a woman is asked “what fragrance are you wearing?”, the answer is “it’s Mine”.

Margarita Designs
Warwick, Rhode Island
margaritadesigns.com