In the summer of 2007, The Seaman Schepps retrospective made the journey across the Atlantic Ocean and opened in Somerset House's Gilbert Collection, cementing Schepps as a distinguished jeweler whose legacy is recognized and appreciated around the world.
Massimo and Lella Vignelli, who designed the original installation for the open floor plan of the Museum of Art & Design in New York, painstakingly adapted their work to accomodate the historic interiors of Somerset House's exhibition rooms.
The exhibition showed the earliest known surviving pieces of jewellery by Schepps, a pair of bracelets in the Art Deco style composed of engraved emeralds and engraved ruby leaves with diamonds in white gold . They still have their original hand-written receipt dated June 5 1931 when the price was $2,250!
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