Good Art Hollywood

Josh Werner’s High Precision Wonderland

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Josh Warner, founder of Good Art Hollywood has been making and reimagining what jewelry can be since 1990. A proud Angeleno, he grew up shaped by his father’s obsession with all things mechanical, and with these roots began to drive his own path. A well-traveled youth took him from urban LA to rural Montana, back to Ojai and then to Venice, where, in his own words, “I went from Bret Easton Ellis to A River Runs Through It to the remnants of Dada Beatnik, into a new, hippy kind of school.”

Good Art started with a $550 sale of handmade earrings to a shop in Venice and has now grown to a full service enterprise that makes well-crafted items at scale. Josh built his own foundry in Los Angeles from scratch, including some sophisticated machines typically found in the workshops of the finest Swiss watchmakers. Welcome to the high-precision wonderland of sterling silver and 24K gold.

Jeremy Smith: Let’s dive right in and talk about what makes Good Art, good art. You’ve got this incredible intersection of craft, art, technology, and scale, which is very difficult to pull off. What drives your aesthetic?