Jos entered the highly recommended school of TNA in Antwerp, Belgium. At \u201cArts et Metiers\u201d in Brussels he learned to set diamonds. Jos established his own shop in 1992 in Berlicum after an apprenticeship in various workshops in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2009 he moved to \u2018s-Hertogenbosch. In his shop you will experience a pleasant atmosphere that reflects his on-going drive to surpass himself, his traditional craftsmanship and his interest in high-tech tools.
\nJos is an emphatic person enabling him to translate your personal wish into a design of a piece of jewellery which will match your character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The urge for Jos to explore new worlds and to go beyond his frontiers brought him to unusual professional sidetracks. One experience showed him the way to go. In 1983 whilst visiting Bogota, Colombia. Jos stayed with a Goldsmith who taught him some simple techniques. During a short absence of his host, he took the opportunity to work on some assignments on the goldsmith\u2019s bench. In the early morning he started to work with utmost concentration. As Jos began to feel the first pangs of hunger, he took off to grab some lunch at a nearby sandwich bar, only to find out it had been past 18.00 o\u2019clock in the evening and the shops were closed …This turned out to be a life changing event. For Jos the pieces of the puzzle seemed to have fallen into place: he was to become a goldsmith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-jos-van-den-elzen.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-142","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n