Cadoro vintage jewellery

Frog brooch, 1970s. Gold tone, green cabochons, rhinestones. Cadoro vintage jewellery

Cadoro vintage jewellery
The history of Manhattan-based Cadoro Jewels Corp. began in 1954 founded by two friends Steven Brody and Daniel Stoenescu. The creative duo of designers handcrafted limited edition costume jewelry, sold in Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue.
Their motto was “Famous Jewellery to the Rich and Famous!”. Among their customers were the Duchess of Windsor and Barbra Streisand.
Traditionally, the company’s craftsmen used metal alloys of gold and silver tone, rhinestones and glass crystals from all over the world, seed pearls and natural stones.

‘The partridge in a pear tree’ brooch. Gold tone, enamel

One of the founders of Cadoro, Steven Stuart Brody (1919 – 1994) graduated from Wharton School in Pennsylvania, then from the Curtis Institute of Music. For a short period he worked as an actor in radio soap operas, then went to Paris. There he met his future partner Daniel Stoenescu (1921 – 1970), who was initiator of the idea to launch jewelry business together.
The markings include “CADORO”, or “© Cadoro” 1955 – 1980s. After the death of Daniel Stoenescu in 1970, the company continued the work until Steven retirement and ceased to exist in 1987. Steven Brody died at the Beth Israel Medical Center on December 23, 1994, of pneumonia following a long illness.