Chris Ploof

Here is the Designer’s Story

Hailing from a small town in Massachusetts, award winning master jeweler Chris Ploof was once a skinny boy lurking around the local living history museum, watching awestruck as the craftspeople manipulated what had previously seemed unyielding: glass, tin, iron. All the while, his spirit was fusing itself to the use of heat and tools to ingeniously create utility and elegance.

After traveling and experiencing the world, Chris found himself back on his boyhood path. He has studied with many well-known artists and apprenticed under a master goldsmith. His curiosity and intense drive is balanced with a wry, wonderful sense of humor that is one of his greatest assets when things don’t go as planned. “Sometime my best discoveries come from my biggest mistakes,” he admits. The Santa Fe Symposium has chosen Chris twice to receive the Industry Leader Award and his work is on the cover of Showcase 500 Rings: New Directions in Art Jewelry (Lark, 2012) and in countless other publications.