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“Adornos: Jewelry, Memory & What We Pass Down” honors the jewelry’s importance to New York City’s Latine communities.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Greenwich St. Jewelers is hosting a photography exhibition titled “Adornos: Jewelry, Memory & What We Pass Down.” The exhibition opens this week.
New York—Greenwich St. Jewelers is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, with a new photography exhibition honoring Latine communities in New York City.
“Adornos: Jewelry, Memory & What We Pass Down” was developed in partnership with visual archivist Djali Brown-Cepeda and her platform @NuevaYorkinos, which preserves Black, Brown, Latine, and Caribbean cultures and histories.
The exhibition recognizes jewelry as an heirloom of memory, migration, and Latine identity in New York City.
It opens Sept. 15 at La Sala, the jeweler’s in-store gathering space, located at 93 Reade St., with an opening reception to follow on Sept. 16.
The family-owned Tribeca fine jewelry retailer also is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
In 1976, Carlos and Milagros (Milly) Gandia, first-generation Nuyoricans, or New York Puerto Ricans, opened a jewelry shop on Greenwich Street in New York’s Financial District.
The store relocated to Trinity Place after 9/11 and moved again in 2022 to its current location in Tribeca.
The jeweler is now owned and operated by Carlos and Milly’s daughters, Jennifer Gandia and Christina Gandia Gambale.
The sisters were inducted into National Jeweler’s Retailer Hall of Fame in 2022.
“My parents came to this city from Puerto Rico with very little materially, but they had the audacity to dream,” Jennifer said.
“Together, they built something lasting with their hands, their spirit, and their word. Jewelry has always been how we hold onto memory, our ancestors, and each other, and this exhibition is our way of saying that story isn’t just ours. It belongs to so many families who came to New York and made a home here.”
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“Adornos: Jewelry, Memory & What We Pass Down” was developed in partnership with visual archivist Djali Brown-Cepeda and her platform @NuevaYorkinos, which preserves Black, Brown, Latine, and Caribbean cultures and histories.
The exhibition recognizes jewelry as an heirloom of memory, migration, and Latine identity in New York City.
It opens Sept. 15 at La Sala, the jeweler’s in-store gathering space, located at 93 Reade St., with an opening reception to follow on Sept. 16.
The family-owned Tribeca fine jewelry retailer also is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
In 1976, Carlos and Milagros (Milly) Gandia, first-generation Nuyoricans, or New York Puerto Ricans, opened a jewelry shop on Greenwich Street in New York’s Financial District.
The store relocated to Trinity Place after 9/11 and moved again in 2022 to its current location in Tribeca.
The jeweler is now owned and operated by Carlos and Milly’s daughters, Jennifer Gandia and Christina Gandia Gambale.
The sisters were inducted into National Jeweler’s Retailer Hall of Fame in 2022.
“My parents came to this city from Puerto Rico with very little materially, but they had the audacity to dream,” Jennifer said.
“Together, they built something lasting with their hands, their spirit, and their word. Jewelry has always been how we hold onto memory, our ancestors, and each other, and this exhibition is our way of saying that story isn’t just ours. It belongs to so many families who came to New York and made a home here.”
The store’s foyer already is lined with photographs tracing the five decades of history behind the family business.
The exhibition pairs the jeweler’s history with a broader visual interpretation of jewelry’s importance to members of the Puerto Rican and Latine diaspora in New York.
Greenwich St. Jewelers described the exhibition as a “milestone chapter” in its year-long series of 50th anniversary programming.
“Fifty years in one place teaches you what actually matters: relationships, craft, and a commitment to community,” Christina said.
“Partnering with Djali and @NuevaYorkinos let us tell that story with the depth it deserves. Hosting the exhibition in La Sala, the living room of our store, means our clients and neighbors can experience the impact of jewelry on a culture from within the legacy our parents started.”
Greenwich St. Jewelers will also host a panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibition in November as part of New York City Jewelry Week, slated for Nov. 16-22.
It will be moderated by Veronica Szalas Valentine, a New York-based jewelry specialist, collector, and writer with more than a decade of experience across the jewelry industry and the creator of jewelry newsletter “Vejeweled.”
The panel will feature those from the jewelry and creative community to discuss jewelry as an act of memory and identity.
More details about the panel, slated for Nov. 18, will be announced separately.
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