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= Paula Vieira = Paula Vieira (born November 28th, 1960) is a Portuguese jewellery designer.

Life and Career
Paula Vieira started life studying Modern Languages ​​and Literature at the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon, dedicating her early years to language teaching. Her desire to create was decisive enough to change course and choose jewellery as her new area of study. Paula took the course at the Contacto Directo school with master Filomeno Pereira de Sousa and was soon putting together her first studio at home in order to complement her apprenticeship. Alongside this Paula also took part in an extensive internship in a renowned jewellery workshop in Portugal. To get to know the jewellery industry better, Paula also began to collaborate with companies, designing new collections and sharing her fresh ideas.

In Paula's early years in jewellery design she would make contact with many internationally renowned jewellers such as Hermann Junger, Otto Künzli, Robert Smit and Harold O'Connor who all would change her life in design forever.

In 1998 Paula founded her own jewellery brand and opened a studio in Porto, where she lived. With an expansion of its client portfolio and greater distribution work to jewellers across the country, Paula ceased to create for other brands and focused solely on her own designs. In addition to an extensive collection of unique gold pieces, Paula successfully developed silver pieces with small gold details, giving them a unique perceptive value at the time.

In 2004 she moved to Lisbon. With this change, a period of a experimentation also began, exploring new techniques and materials over the coming years.

With a very varied portfolio, Paula became well known for combining materials in a truly original way. Through a completely handcrafted manufacturing process, Paula juxtaposed the simplicity of shapes and the complexity of textures that form in nature and applied it to golds and silvers, removing the monotony of traditional polishing.

Paula Vieira creates several collections per year, either based on a theme or an idea. The  starting point for her creations is invariably a single jewel which then expands to a wide variety of rings, earrings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets. Due to their handmade character, albeit similar, all of her creations have small variations, offering the wearer a truly unique piece.

Paula also creates tailor-made bespoke jewellery, that combine her aesthetics with the personal style and taste of her clients.

Teaching
The gratifying pedagogical experience of Paula's early years in study influenced the course of her future career. Since 1996 Paula Vieira has taught at the Jewellery Project at ESAD, Matosinhos, the Contacto Directo School and at the Jewellery Center in Lisbon.

Paula also teaches privately in her studio in Lisbon, awakening in others a passion for creativity. Over the years, she has built up a reputation as a teacher who can help her students reach their true potential in the field of jewellery and become artists in their own right.

In her atelier in Lisbon she continues to work, always pitching to an audience that appreciates and values ​​difference, authenticity and exclusivity in contemporary jewellery.

Paula states "I dedicate myself to my projects, obsessing over the process of artistic creation. Always aiming to seduce the wearer with the forms and textures that I have conceived and forged."