ESSENTIAL JEWELS

“As a kid, I remember hearing the jingling sound of my grandmother’s charm bracelet when she was visiting and came through the door after a night out for dinner with my mom. It was a sound that made me feel safe in knowing that they were home.” Says Lisa Feldkamp, co-owner with her mother Leslie…

Whether you are a serious collector of a certain time periods in jewelry or you are on the hunt for something rare and unique, we have combed the recent Las Vegas Antique Jewelry and Watch Show to bring you various items we found to be swoon worthy, in excellent condition, work with modern wardrobes and…

Whenever I cover the antique and period jewels from S.J. Phillips in London, I am like a kid in a candy store— I don’t know what to look at first. My eyes try to focus on the sheer wonder of it. But the magic of S.J. Phillips Collection of Jewels from Portugal  left me breathless,…

  Opening Image (Daisey Fellowes Tutti Fruitti Necklace, 1936 (Photo courtesy of N.Welsh Cartier Collection ©Cartier After writing about the Cooper Hewitt Exhibit, The Jazz Age: America Style In The 1920s, I thought it only befitting to follow it up with a story of the jewels most characteristic of the Art Deco movement. The great…

  Everything’s coming up florals in ready-to-wear and couture, as seen during the spring/summer 2017 and fall/winter/2018 runway shows. Designers feature styles from garden varieties to exotic wild flowers in silhouettes that range from streamlined to flowing and feminine. But fashion creators aren’t the only ones firmly planted in botanicals — independent jewelry designers and…

Every five years or so, I take stock of my life. At 50, I was concerned with fitness, health, and the trials and tribulations of dating ‘again’ after the break-up long-term relationship. Today, as a 55 year-old single woman, author and sole business owner, I looked around my Manhattan Lincoln-center area rental apartment and when…

[slide-anything id=’3502′]   By Hans Gschliesser In homage to all of you jewelry possessed women waiting for their next fix—here is a story of how I became obsessed with the unexpected gift of an 18k rose gold vintage 1940s Elgin watch. Before receiving the gift, I had never been a man who wore jewelry, not…

Dressing up the ear and gracing the neck with stand-out pieces proved to be the predominant trends on the red carpet and international ready-to-wear runways recently. But the streamlined elegance which set Priyanka Chopra apart from her peers at the 2017 Oscars, when she wore two Lorraine Schwartz wide platinum lavender and diamond bracelets on…

For those of you whose significant others are planning chocolate-shaped hearts for Valentine’s Day, the thought is (literally) sweet. But, as we all know, these gifts would be more meaningful, read: desirable if they came in precious metals and colored gemstones. While some of us have always had a passion for hearts, others have found them…

  January in New York: it’s cold, dreary, gets dark way to early and we tend to layer more in sweaters and scarves than jewelry—but there is one week that always puts a smile on my face—when The Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory comes to town. Sure, I will be in Miami…