Sneak Peek of Southern Entrepreneurs 2022

Nicola Bathie

Sneak Peek of Southern Entrepreneurs 2022 
Portrait by carolinebphoto (left). Photography by Steve Rizzo (right).

Nicola Bathie
San Antonio, Texas

Finding inspiration in both the beauty of nature and enduring elements of style, Texas-based designer Nicola Bathie crafts jewelry that feels at once au courant and abiding. A stumbled-upon jewelry-making class influenced Nicola’s distinctive line of artful earrings that are embellished with floral elements, mother-of-pearl, gilded accents, and kaleidoscopic gems. Though earrings remain Nicola’s bread and butter, she offers a few coordinating items, like a new chinoiserie bracelet, and plans call for expanding the hand-sculpted potted papier-mâché blooms that spearheaded her Jewelry for the Home creations.