As a child, Aliza would eagerly await the return her father, master diamond artisan Leo Schachter, from his world travels through Europe and the Far East. Inevitably, he brought with him some object of beauty and interesting design from far off places. Her interest in the discoveries he made and in his passion for work captured her imagination.
"There was a certain mystique to my family's diamond business that drew out my artistic side", Aliza explains. She followed a variety of artistic endeavors from playing the piano to painting watercolors to calligraphy and illumination, before realizing that applying her talents and lyricism to the design of exquisite pieces of diamond jewelry would be her true calling.
