My Background, Vladimir Deming,  
                                 Founder and Instructor of The Little Studio     

After receiving training as a young man under my father's guidance working on designing and hand-producing jewelry for theaters and movies, I entered the Academy of Industrial Art in St. Petersburg, and graduated with a Master's Degree of Decorative Art. I began my career as an industrial designer, but my interest, and eventually my main occupation, evolved to antique restoration and the designing and hand-production of costume jewelry.

I emigrated from Russia in 1975. Prior to my transition to the U.S., I worked for the Vienna Opera House in Austria creating stage jewelry. In my first two years in the U.S., I worked in New York City as a jewelry designer for Gemveto Jewelry Co. and Carvin French Jewelry. I developed my own antique restoration business working for private clients and antique dealers. In 1987, I was invited to develop a course of 'Restoration of Ceramics' and to teach this course in the Restoration Department of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. I taught students this course for nineteen years. Many of my students today own their own restoration businesses, or work for other restoration studios and museums.

In 2006, I opened my own private educational studio called The Little Studio LLC where I teach Handmade Costume Jewelry and Restoration of Ceramics. It is located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

I look forward to seeing you in The Little Studio! Please call 212-535-2412, or email us at littlestudionyc@aol.com.