Jewelry and Gifts from America's Finest Artists

Silverscape Designs is a landmark in Northampton. Located at the corner of King and Main Streets in a 1928 Art Deco bank building, the reserved exterior belies the stunning interior with its stained glass ceiling and dramatic ornamentation. It is ironic, with such a sumptuous stage for diamonds and jewelry, that Silverscape Designs was actually started in the back of a school bus. Founder, Denis Perlman, began making jewelry while attending MIT. He soon noticed he spent much more time designing than studying, so he decided to take his jewelry show on the road. After outfitting the school bus with a shop, he criss-crossed the United State several times.

When he tired of this peripatetic existence, he came to rest in Amherst , Massachusetts and in 1976 opened his first non-mobile store. Denis lovingly converted a large Victorian house into an ever larger and larger jewelry shop. The store and stock grew so much that he could say, without fear of contradiction, that it contained the largest collection of handmade jewelry in New England . This first store, located in the center of Amherst , is still thriving.

Silverscape Designs is proud of its tradition of selling handmade jewelry, especially by American artists, and proud of its beautiful building which in itself is a monument to craftsmanship.

Each year Silverscape Design of Northampton and Amherst donates fine craft and jewelry to dozens of charity auctions throughout western Massachusetts and is an active supporter of the the Cooley Dickinson Center for Midwifery Care at Cooley Dickinson Hospital and the United Way of Hampshire County among many others.