{"id":48280,"date":"2022-02-17T18:26:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=48280"},"modified":"2022-02-17T18:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:26:24","slug":"shop-talk-inspirata-vita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/communities\/business\/shop-talk-inspirata-vita\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop Talk: Inspirata Vita"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_48282\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48282\" class=\"wp-image-48282\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Shop-Talk-2_-Doug-Canivet-IMG_1380.jpg-Doug-Canivet-artist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"488\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-48282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Canivet<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Inspirata Vita owner Doug Canivet has always had an interest in science and the arts. \u201cMy father had a large selection of tools, and I was allowed to use them without many restrictions,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>In college, Canivet\u2019s gemology teacher, a master goldsmith, convinced Canivet to take a jewelry making class. \u201cThe rest is history,\u201d Canivet says. Over the past 40 years, Canivet has worked as a goldsmith, a business owner and a teacher. Through Inspirata Vita, he currently offers a jewelry appreciation workshop on making a set of stacking silver rings. \u201cI take one of the student\u2019s rings and set a gemstone in it as part of the workshop,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The name Inspirata Vita, or \u201cinspired life,\u201d comes from the notion that jewelry is used to mark some of life\u2019s most significant events. \u201cThe name is a way of making that idea a fundamental part of everything we do,\u201d says Canivet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Inspirata Vita is located at 207 Coxe Ave, Suite 6, in The Refinery in downtown Asheville. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/InspirataVita.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InspirataVita.com<\/a> or call 828.407.7407.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspirata Vita owner Doug Canivet has always had an interest in science and the arts. \u201cMy father had a large selection of tools, and I was allowed to use them without many restrictions,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":48282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-fashion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shop Talk: Inspirata Vita - The Laurel of Asheville<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Inspirata Vita owner Doug Canivet has always had an interest in science and the arts. \u201cMy father had a large selection of tools, and I was allowed to use them without many restrictions,\u201d he says.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/communities\/business\/shop-talk-inspirata-vita\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shop Talk: Inspirata Vita - 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