Since 1976 Ted Muehling has  been designing jewellery and decorative objects inspired by organic forms found in nature.  

He also produces one-off pieces using diverse materials such as precious and semi- precious metals, glass, pearls, ceramics, stone, plastic and wood.

First attracted to three-dimensional design while in school in Pratt (1975), he pursued applied rather than fine arts because he wanted to meld the decorative with the functional, the personal with a given form.

He concentrated on industrial design and had little training in either jewelry design or metalsmithing. In the last several years he has begun to work with new materials as an extension of his own jewelry design. Shapes first created in metal have metamorphosed, finding their final form in wood, glass, and porcelain.

For Salviati, he designed Farfalle.