Thomas Mann Design

Handmade Art Jewelry and Metal Sculpture. Thomas Mann is a metal artist best know for his Techno.Romantic Jewelry Objects™. Thomas Mann Design Inc. employs 14 people to make and market the work designed by Thomas Mann through the wholesale and retail businesses. The retail gallery, Thomas Mann Gallery I/O, celebrated its 20th year of operation in 2008. The e-commerce website, www.thomasmann.com, has been in operation for over ten years. Mann’s work is exhibited at major art and craft events across the country. In 2011, Thomas Mann studioFLUX™ Jewelry Making School was launched at 1812 Magazine Street as a teaching enterprise. With this brand, we are now reaching out to the home crafting industry offering do-it-yourself jewelry making kits and how-to videos and books, as well as hands-on workshops by Thomas Mann and visiting artists.

Thomas Mann has been an active participant in the contemporary American craft movement for the past forty years as an artist, gallery owner, instructor and lecturer. He describes himself as an artist working in the medium of jewelry and sculpture. The primary design vocabulary which he employs in the making of jewelry objects combines industrial aesthetics and materials with evocative romantic themes and imagery. He calls this design system Techno.Romantic™. Though it is not the only design mode in which he works, it is the one for which he and his work is best known. Thomas Mann lives and works in New Orleans where he oversees a jewelry design & production studio, a jewelry & metalsmithing workshop studio, a sculpture studio, and thomas mann gallery i/o.