User:Houseofroderick

House of Roderick is a New York based couture jewelry design house specializing is avant garde jewelry concepts inspired by numerous cultures and time period of the ancient world. Founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1989, under the legal copyright name of Roderick Studios & Company, the owner and present head designer, Roderick A. Gunsell, has received worldwide notoriety and has been featured in over 133 leading international fashion publications such as: Vogue Italy, Essence, Vibe, and Glamour. His creations has been shown on BET, The Wendy Williams Show and The Late Night Show with David Letterman besides a spectrum of Off-Broadway shows.

As a third generation jeweler, importer and artist, Roderick seeks to weave his personal experiences and fantasy-ridden themes into the mainstream of New York emerging ideas. Recently, a variety of followers that range from everyone from Rosalynn Carter to Martha Wash, have noticed that Roderick's evolution of ideas( and collections) has been taken on a movie-like look as he has begun to unfold elaborate, self-funded, runway shows like take you completely into his creative visions using multi-media, art, dance and theatrical effects. His recent jewelry collections( shows & short films) have been cultivated from exotic places like Xian, China, Ephesus, Turkey and Versailles, France. Roderick believes the sensitive of experiencing these places first hand( among numerous others still on his list) help to formulate his latest collections as well as tell a riveting story to his buyers, critics and fans about another culture, a far-away land and a specific historical event. This complex manner in which to create the collections of House of Roderick says that he is more personalized and less commercialized than his competitors. The soul of his jewelry designs (often made of custom-made 24 karat gold Venetian glass beads, rare gemstones, Austrian crystal and vintage materials) inspire the wearer and often leaves them wanting more.

Roderick A. Gunsell was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on July 23, 1961. He presently lives New York City.