Palm Desert Jeweler Uses Glass As Canvas

A Palm Desert jewelry maker who specializes in blown glass will be among the 260 artists featured at the later this month.

The festival is set from Jan. 27-29 at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio.

Gunn Trigère, who used to sell her jewelry at the Gunn Trigère Boutique on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, now only sells her one-of-a-kind pieces at art shows and festivals across California.

"I got myself all the material I needed to work with," Trigère said. "I taught myself to do this. It became like little paintings, like little abstract paintings with these fabulous colors. Glass can give you such incredible, almost like haluncinary colors."

Now she works mainly with silver and glass from her Palm Desert home and said her inspiration comes from a unique place.

"It’s more like the art world, paintings and it just comes to me, just by working. I never wait for inspiration. I just sit down and it comes," Trigère said.

The Stockholm native, who is married to Robert Trigère, who was the managing partner of the Fashion House of Trigère in New York, moved to the Coachella Valley in the early 1990s.

She said she treats each piece of glass, which often get used as the focal point of her necklaces, like a "blank canvas."

Her pieces run from $150 on up, she said, adding that she will appear at the event in February in La Quinta.