Each handcrafted snowflake ornament is as unique as a natural snowflake.

The snowflake is always wondrous and always unique. Over generations, families have turned this winter beauty into one of the most highly collected silver Christmas ornaments in the United States. In its premiere snowflake ornament collection, OrangeHOWELL.com by Paula Zanger pays homage to the legacy of this traditional icon with an enchanting collection of holiday ornaments infused with the spirit of American design.

Zanger, who is known for the stunning products she created for companies such as Sasaki, Rosenthal USA, Royal Velvet, Wedgwood: Vera Wang, ABC Carpet & Home, Sofa Soma, and Barneys NY, has designed china, sterling silver and silver-plated gifts and textiles for the luxury market for over 15 years. Her new ornament collection reflects insights garnered from a mentorship with an AGTA fine colored gem dealer and her experience as the creative director for an established New England silversmith. Zanger drew her ideas for snowflake ornaments from the shapes and styles favored by New England silversmiths, updating them with luminous colored crystals that refract and reflect light adding movement to each unique ornament.

Like natural snowflakes, each snowflake ornament in the Orange HOWELL collection is unique. Choose an ornament from charming snowflakes, beveled modernist snowflakes with silhouettes of iconic crystal charms including hearts, stars and crosses dangling at the center. There are also pinwheel snowflake ornaments, startburst ornaments and even custom designed ornaments.

There’s much more to Orange HOWELL than snowflake ornaments. Additional ornament designs include a crystal accented Holly Berry Tree ornament, Hanukah Bush ornament, and Snowman ornament, and they will be adding to their line just in time for Christmas.

Orange HOWELL was named for Paula Zanger’s spirited, great-great-grandfather, a literal “seventh son of a seventh son.” He was a Welsh, Quaker, Hoosier and Farmer. The spirit of innovation inspired by “William and Mary of Orange” gives the ornament business its first name. All of the silver snowflake ornaments are handcrafted in the United States and became available online on October 25, 2009.

Article and images used with permission from OrangeHOWELL.com

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