Darani Lewers was born in Australia in 1936. In 1959 she travelled to Denmark where she worked for nine months with Helge Larsen and Harald Jensen in their successful jewellery and silversmith studio and shop, Sølvform (Silver form), in Copenhagen. After further travel Darani returned to Australia, persuaded by her mother, Modernist painter Margo Lewers, that Sydney was ready for new forms of creative expression in contemporary jewellery.

In 1961 Helge migrated to Australia where he and Darani formed their professional partnership, Larsen & Lewers and held their first exhibition at Macquarie Galleries in Sydney.

In addition to Darani's shared national and international practice with Helge was her public role in the arts. She was appointed Chair of the Crafts Board, Australia Council in 1976 and became a member of the NSW Women and Arts Festival Committee in 1981, generating a number of community based activities with her colleagues.

In 1982 she was appointed a member of the General Division of the order of the Australia for her services to the crafts. As a member of the Australia Council for the Arts Darani was a national representative for the Arts.

In recognition of Larsen & Lewers' contribution to contemporary jewellery in Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria organised a retrospective exhibition of their work which toured Australia and Europe from 1986 - 1988. In the catalogue essay for the exhibition Judith O’Callaghan, curator of Metalwork at the National Gallery of Victoria wrote:

’The partnership between Helge Larsen and Darani Lewers has few parallels within Australian craft. They were pioneers of the modern jewellery movement in this country.’

In 2007 Darani was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Visual Arts, University of Sydney in recognition of her lifelong contribution to the arts.