Betony Vernon Biography
Betony Vernon is an American designer, author and self-described ‘sexual anthropologist’ who based in Paris. She is known for her work in precious metal and marble which is inspired by the human body, eroticism and sexual well-being.
She also creates luxurious, durable and safe Jewel – Tools as a response to the sex toy industry which are quite popular and have made hers, a popular name.
Betony Vernon Age
Vernon is 51 years old as of 2019. She was born on 15 August 1968 in Tazewell, Virginia, United States.
Betony Vernon Family
She was born and raised in a family of four daughters and the third daughter of Ann Dearsley Vernon, a former British civil rights activist, and art historian and a father who was a pilot in America and inventor.
She graduated in 1990 from Virginia Commonwealth University receiving her Art History degree and a double minor in Religious Studies and Goldsmithing Cum Laude.
She then moved to Florence, Italy where she began directing the metal-smithing program at Fuji Studio Art Workshop. Sado-Chic, her first erotic jewelry collection was developed in 1992. She kept working in Florence and after five years, she moved to Milan.
While in Milan, she enrolled in Domus Academy for a Master’s degree in Industrial Design and she earned it. She also founded her own design studio, her first, “Atelier B.V.” where she created one-of-a-kind objects for Luisa Via Roma.
Betony Vernon Husband
Is Vernon Betony Married? The re-known erotic jewelry designer is not married. She was however married to Barnaba Fornasetti, son of Piero Fornasetti for ten years from 2004 to 2014.
Betony Vernon Net Worth
Her exact net worth has not been revealed,this information will be updated soon.
Betony Vernon Career
Vernon began designing in 1986 and in 1995 and 1998, she designed table objects for Florentine silversmith Pampaloni. She also became the Design Director for Fornasetti, an Italian interior design house.
In her working years, Vernon has collaborated with several fashion designers that include Missoni, Alain Tondowski, Gianfranco Ferré, and Jean-Paul Gaultier. She even designed a neckpiece for Swarovski’s Runway Rocks project in 2006. Later, the neckpiece was used by Lady Gaga for her Paparazzi video.
She worked with Los Angeles-based photographer, Jeff Burton, in 2006 in the museum house of Carlo Mollino in Turin, Italy. She wrote, co-produced and hosted a show dedicated to sexual education titled “The Boudoir” for MTV Italy whose episodes aired on Love Line. She also made a short video, “L’Envol”, for SHOWstudio in 2008 in collaboration with Nick Knight.
The Origin Chair, a functional sculpture carved in statuary marble from Monte Altissimo, Italy, was designed by Vernon in November 2012 and was unveiled at the Triennale Museum of Design in December 2012. It has since traveled to MUDAC – Museum of Design and Contemporary Art, Lausanne and was exhibited in Vernon’s carte blanche for the Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur in 2015.
She then unveiled her Boudoir Box (1999-2000, leather case and sterling silver objects) in 2017 to the general public as part of the Medusa exhibition at the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art.
Betony Vernon Livre (Book)
- The Boudoir Bible: The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today
This is a book written by Vernon that provides a guide with no taboos to prolong the pleasure, in a couple and the life expectancy.
Betony Vernon Jewelry
Betony Vernon Bijoux
A Bijou is an intricate jewelry piece incorporated into clothing or worn by itself on the body.
Betony Vernon Gioielli (The erotic jewels of Vernon)
Betony Vernon Shop
One can shop for Betony’s ‘tools’, as she calls them, online from her website at www.betonyvernon.com. Find the site to fully explore the Vernon world of jewelry.
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