Vartan, came to the United States in the late 1970\u2032s and teamed up with a friend of his that was in the jewelry industry. Both with previous background experience in the field from Lebanon, Vartan decided he\u00a0was a \u2018hands on\u2019 kind of guy and fell in love with aspects of working with you hands and creating such beauty that is the art of gem cutting and inlay lapidary. He self taught himself, spending countless hours of practicing in the late nights until he perfected this rare trade. He was determined to be one of the best in the business.<\/p>\n

His father came from Lebanon in the early 1980\u2032s to call California\u00a0his home. He needed work to keep himself busy so Vartan taught his father the art of Inlay\u00a0Lapidary. Vartan\u2019s father, also a \u2018hands on\u2019 kind of guy, he too, fell in love with this trade. By the mid 1980\u2032s Vartan was known as the \u2018go to\u2019 guy in Los Angeles when it came to gem cutting and inlay lapidary work. His business boomed in the 90\u2032s and he had about 15 employees working under him servicing customers that were local to creating designer style lapidary lines for big companies in New York.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to today, His son, Sako, also fell in love with the trade at an early age. If you ever speak to Sako in person, you\u2019d probably here him say that he never had a summer vacation when he was a kid. Sako would spend his time at his fathers work place, slowly soaking up years of knowledge and experience from his father and grandfather.<\/p>\n

Three generations under the same roof, providing years of experience says something. We\u2019re doing something right\u2026<\/p>\n

Please visit our website here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would like to introduce you to our company called Cicada Jewelry Design, Inc. Located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Its a\u00a0family operated business with\u00a0three\u00a0generations\u00a0teamed together. Vartan, came to the United States in the late 1970\u2032s and teamed up with a friend of his that was in the jewelry industry. Both with previous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}