Silversmithing

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Working by hand brings material, proportion, and connection into close focus—an attention to detail that carries into my architectural work.

Top view of the polished sterling-silver spoon, with a clustered concave bowl, spherical neck, and long tapered handle.

Featured project · 2026

Bubble Spoon

A cluster of silver domes, a hollow neck, and a tapered handle. A study in balance, developed from sheet to finished object.

Fork with a long tapered brown handle and a folded geometric metal neck.

Four-tined fork with a pale carved handle and a polished metal neck.

Curved metal pendant with two oval blue stones and a loop at the top.

Handmade metal chain with elongated links and a clasp, arranged in a loop.

Oval silver-and-brass brooch with raised lettering, a beaded border, and a small hanging ornament.

Ring with an emerald at one end of a short tubular setting beside a circular band.

Three domed copper templates with blue, yellow, purple, and red enamel color studies, suspended on brown cords.

Overlapping copper leaf outlines surrounding green acrylic, suspended from a black cord.

An elongated cow-bone pendant with two curved lobes and a textured surface, suspended from a cord.

Oval silver Steal Your Face skull and lightning-bolt inlay set into the dark guitar headstock of a Jerry Garcia sculpture.

Circular green coaster with graphite markings baked into its enamel surface.

Landscape carved into a plaster-of-Paris lid within a raised metal rim, resting on an oval metal box.

Bookmark with an angular waist, small square cutouts, and contrasting silver, brass, and bronze elements.

Seven stones cut by Maxwell J. Wiesenfeld in 2020, with varied colors, patterns, and rounded profiles.