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Borgo’s gold-plated brass collar and silver and gold-plated brass bracelet, both produced in Providence, R.I.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Eddie Borgo flips through his spring 2012 inspiration book.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Borgo discusses finding inspiration in Robert Mapplethorpe’s frame art.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Borgo on Amtrak
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland And he’s off. Out of the train station, Borgo hails a cab to Avis.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Borgo cruising through the streets of Providence.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland First stop on the tour: A.D. Designs.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland The scene at A.D. Designs.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Eddie Borgo and Alfredo DeLucia of A.D. Designs.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland The snow-like pilings of metal shaving.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland A scene from A.D. Designs.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Alfredo DeLucia on the ground floor at A.D. Designs.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Modelmaker DeLucia in his element.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland DeLucia’s tools of the trade.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland More tools of the trade.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland A mold for Borgo’s dragonfly pendant from fall 2011.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Second stop: ChemArt.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Borgo at the ChemArt office.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Most of the ChemArt designs start out as paper models.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland ChemArt’s Larry Lefebvre begins the tour, starting with the brass substrate.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland The scene at ChemArt.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland ChemArt’s co-lighting process, where images are burned onto brass.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland The acid-etching process at ChemArt.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland A ChemArt employee cleans and adds finishes to the substrate.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland ChemArt’s assembly warehouse.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland A sampling of ChemArt’s in-house holiday ornaments.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland The leftover substrates, ready to be recycled.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Stop number three, casting manufacturer RVS & Co.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Roger V. Scungio of RVS & Co.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland RVS & Co. general manager Melodie Betters talks shop with Borgo.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland The scene at RVS & Co.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Borgo discovers his molds from his spring 2009 collaboration with 3.1 Phillip Lim.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Borgo at RVS & Co.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Eddie Borgo, at RVS & Co., playing with jewelry molds from his spring 2009 collaboration with 3.1 Phillip Lim.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Scungio takes us on a tour of his tools.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Fourth stop: Universal Plating Inc.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Eddie Borgo walking the aisle at Universal Plating Inc.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland The cyanide copper tank at Universal Plating Inc.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland A close-up of Borgo’s pendants about to go in the tank.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland The mixture used for gold plating.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Universal Plating Inc. co-owner Edward Johnson talks business with Borgo.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Eddie Borgo at Universal Plating Inc.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland Borgo at the pump.
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Image Credit: Lexie Moreland It’s business until the very end — Borgo checking e-mail as the day closes.