MODERN + EARTHY JEWELRY, ART + HOME GOODS
Pauline Stanley Studio + Rare Bird Co. is a studio + shop featuring natural + modern art, jewelry, home goods and more. Our shop houses our signature collections, Pauline Stanley Studio (art) & Rare Bird Co. (jewelry + home), both illustrated + designed in Richmond, VA by artist/designer Pauline Stanley, alongside a curated selection of vintage goods. Designed in Richmond, VA & proudly made in the USA, using eco-friendly practices when possible.
MORE ABOUT DESIGNER/OWNER, PAULINE STANLEY:
Pauline Stanley, born and raised in Virginia, now lives with her raucous family of five, including her husband, two sons, and daughter in the Bon Air area of Richmond, VA. She has been hand making jewelry and accessories since 2006. In 2008, she built a business as a vintage clothing and jewelry seller for her online shop, Fashion House Vintage. There she cultivated a love for business ownership and all things vintage, but missed utilizing her creativity to express her own perspective in design.
She then decided to devote her time and effort to developing her creativity and learned graphic design, printmaking, hand dyeing and metalsmithing techniques. In 2011, she created her own handmade shop on Etsy, a place that provided her an outlet to sell some of the accessories and jewelry pieces she was making out of her home. There she found and community of people who shared her vision. Today she continues to run her shop out of her studio, while furthering her skills in jewelry and art/design. With over 15,000 orders made in the past years on Etsy, she has also built her own stand alone e-commerce shop at therarebirdco.com.
In her current designs, she finds an incredible amount of inspiration from geometric shapes and patterns, vintage midcentury design, fun quirky trends, and loves translating them into minimalist modern designs for everyday life. Most of all, she is happy growing a business where she can make things and share them with a community of people who appreciate her vision and the importance of shopping artist made products.
Her latest venture is a new online shop, Rare Bird Co., housing a collection of her own designs, alongside a curated vintage goods.
