You may not have heard of RD Jewelry Studio.  However, if you live on the North Shore there is a good chance you know someone who owns a piece of jewelry crafted by this talented custom designer.  As a second generation jeweler, Rob Dufault has spent the past 35+years designing and personally, expertly executing one-of-a-kind creations right here in Lake County.  Originally, he worked with his family at their Lincolnshire store, Andre’s Jewelers. In 2003,  he moved to Lake Bluff,  where for 10 years he discreetly served his clientèle by appointment only,  more than 11 years ago he opened, RD Jewelry Studio, operating as a retail, walk-in design studio.    

Rob's mission, is using his talents as a designer, craftsman, educator and perpetual student to help clients create their own, distinctive, pieces of "Wearable Art".  For each design, he selects from the best methods of manufacture weather through, old world hand fabrication or the newest technologies and techniques available today including the likes of 3D printing and Computer generated images as tools to illustrate and demonstrate the potential of projects.

Rob sees his role as... "helping to create the embodiment of the customer's own taste"....  "My taste is just that, mine. My gift is to help yours shine through.  I make your visions become reality". 

Rob's expertise is in all phases of the jewelry trade.

Including:

  • Repair- in all precious and semi-precious metals

  • Restoration- hand-fabrication, and sometimes even Laser

  • Design- hand wax modeling & computer-aided design

  • Manufacture- hand-fabrication, assembly, casting, computer aided milling, and 3D printing

  • Gemstone setting

  • Lapidary arts- inlay, cabochon, carving, facet & ultra-sonic cutting

  • Gemology- gemological studies including diamonds and other precious and semi-precious

  • Insurance services- including replacements, repairs & appraisals

These along with his design sense and engineering prowess make Rob's "RD Jewelry Studio" a truly unique destination in the Lake Bluff, Lake Forest area!

Come in and see what we can do for you!

 

We would also love to be your preferred destination for watch repair, as our watch repairs are not “shipped” to services across the country.

Instead they are hand carried to our “local’ish” partner whose certifications include Patek Philippe!

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