Podcast Episode 85: A Chat With Palm Beach Jewelry Designer Cynthia Dillion
Born in New York, Cynthia Dillion grew up in Buenos Aires and Tokyo, and worked with international jewelers in America, Europe and the Far East. Her career began alongside Elsa Peretti, Tiffany & Co.’s foremost designer, doing Manufacturing, Design, and Public Relations. Cynthia later became President of Kuma Enterprises, the company owned by Elsa Peretti, in 1983. The company was contractually retained by Tiffany & Co., from 1982-1988, to assist in the implementation of the licensing agreement between Peretti and Tiffany, and Cynthia oversaw the production of Peretti designs in Spain, Italy, and the Far East- including the execution of the design of the rock crystal perfume bottle bearing the designer’s name and appearing in the 1981-1982 Tiffany Catalogue- and which was displayed at the British Museum in London.
In 1989, she started her own jewelry design company in Madrid, Spain and began selling her designs in Japan. She has sold in Bloomingdale’s and some of her clients have included the Fundaciόn Colecciόn Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; the Castle Prague, Prague; and a corporate clientele that included The Coca – Cola Company in USA and Europe, Peugeot, Sun Microsystems, Johnson & Johnson and others. Most recently, in 2018, two of her Jewelry Pins were presented as gifts to a former US Secretary of State through the non- profit organization Friends of the Czech Republic.
Cynthia has also worked in the political sphere, in Washington, DC where she produced a weekly a radio show from 2009-2016 and interviewed ca. 600 personalities from the Nation’s Capital and overseas. She has also volunteered in many a political campaign as well as her Church (St. Stephen Martyr Church, in Washington D.C, and St. Edward’s Church in Palm Beach, Fl.) An avid art enthusiast, she was a Docent at The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fl., from 2018-2025.
