Sara Greco is an Italian 3D Jewelry CAD designer with 23 years of bench work experience, wax carving, and stone setting.
She began her career as a jeweler at the age of fourteen, asking her parents for the first welder. She studied at the Art Institute of Lecce (in southern Italy) with a focus on “Art of Metals and Goldsmithing.” Then, very young, Sara attended various goldsmith workshops in the province.
In Vicenza (a city in northern Italy famous for its well known jewelry district ), Sara trained at the I.RI.GEM Institute, where she attended courses in wax design and modeling, gemstone cutting, gemological analysis, and diamonds selection.
After the vicentine period, she studied at the Tarì Design School, in the Neapolitan area (southern Italy.) There, Sara learned the art of engraving and stone setting, also working in various workshops where she discovered the secrets of the most excellent masters of the traditional Neapolitan goldsmith’s art.
In 2012, Sara launched her own jewelry brand, personally executing and managing every step of the jewelry making process —- starting from the design and conception of her own jewelry line, making the wax models, transforming wax in metal through the lost-wax casting process, soldering, setting and lastly finishing and polishing the pieces (making also molds for serial production.)
She presented her collections in Italian fashion shows. Sara also collaborated with Italian stylists and theater directors. She was featured in several articles in Italian and American newspapers.
With a desire to push her boundaries and to expand her horizons, in 2016 Sara moved to New York City, the diamond and jewelry capital of the world.
For the past nine years Sara has been working in the Diamond District of NYC as production manager, 3D Cad designer and jewelry model maker in wax and precious metal for the most renowned luxury brands in the world of high-end and fine jewelry.
Sara studied and deepened her knowledge on 3D CAD software attending different courses at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) and Vertex School, learning from the best 3D model makers.
In 2021, she opened her own business, working as a freelance 3D Artist and CAD Model Maker.
Sara makes different kinds of jewelry: from classic to more organic styles, always with the highest attention to details, combining the avant-garde of American jewelry techniques with the Italian goldsmith tradition.
She works for customers all around the world, from jewelers and brands to workshops or private designers.
The main tools she masters are Z-Brush, Matrix and Clayoo.
Sara’s goal is to use the fundamental knowledge collected in years of experience to develop an efficient, surefire method to save time while keeping the highest quality through the most advanced 3D CAD tools we have available today, without losing the look and feel of handcrafted work.
She loves seeing new customers ideas’ taking shape into real jewelry collections. Sara will bring your creative vision to life, always making sure to preserve the core of your ideas. She will guide you every step of the way by making your pieces efficiently producible.
For freelancing commissions or enquires, please use the CONTACT page.
