DESIGNER

An artist and designer since childhood, Katherine was raised a creative family of educators, musicians, and artists. As a child and teenager, she designed and sewed special fashion items for herself, and custom elegant signs for private local country clubs in her hometown. Her time in fashion enabled her to learn a great deal about design and creative enterprise from top designers including Diane Von Furstenberg, Vivienne Tam, and countless artisans in New York’s jewelry district.

Katherine’s design ethos is rooted in global culture, art, history, and nature, and often includes symbolic motifs from myriad regions she has enjoyed through travels around the world: exotic wildflowers in the Middle East, fragrant Jasmine flowers from Damascus, Lotus flowers in fields in the wild and preserved through carvings in temples of Asia, and Egyptian Scarabs from a bracelet her mother gave her as a child inspired by Ancient Egyptian Civilization.

She has enjoyed creating through a variety of media over the past two decades, principally jewelry and carpets, working with talented global artisans through her philosophy of Ethical Luxury, and is open only to special commissions by request.

AFGHAN Carpet collection

Katherine’s limited edition collection of carpets has just launched in Spring 2025. As her first foray into interiors, the collection is handmade by talented women weavers in Afghanistan as part of a longtime partnership between Katherine and Turquoise Mountain NGO, founded by HRH King Charles III.

This carpet range has been supported by the Qatar Fund for Development and Label:Step for Turquoise Mountain to commission Katherine’s signature design inspiration of global historic art and culture combined with ethical luxury artisan practices for a new medium.

Katherine Parr Jewelry

For over a decade, Katherine Parr Jewelry was brand of demi-fine jewelry handmade by global artisans with fair trade and environmental concerns. Inspired by global heritage, the brand was created and sold in B2B and B2C locations in the United States and Europe for over ten years, including the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and select luxury boutiques.

The jewelry has been exhibited for HRH King Charles III at Clarence House in London, in galleries in New York and Spain, and owned and worn by figures including HM Queen Rain of Jordan, Maya Angelou, Grammy-award winner Joshua Bell, and tennis star Rafael Nadal. It has been featured in domestic and international luxury magazines and even on several print covers, including Elle, L’Officiel, and Town and Country.