COLLECTING
The Painterly Process of Margery Hirschey’s Designs
Margery Hirschey’s favorite part of her role as jewelry designer is finding gemstones that make her heart flutter with excitement—the type of stones that immediately ignite her imagination. Hirschey begins with an assortment of boulder opals, all shades of tourmalines, aquamarine and a rich palette of other families of gemstones. For one recent pair…
Read MoreKaren Karch and I talk about the growing desire for custom designed jewelry
“Many of our custom designs begin with one of my signature styles. We can re-create our collection pieces to a client’s specifications, whether it be the addition of larger or smaller stones or saving parts of a sentimental piece, which the client owns. It’s so gratifying to offer our customers the opportunity to take…
Read MoreWatching Aida Bergsen’s Garden Grow
Flowers with leaves and vines that intertwine, lizards that capture smaller insects in their mouths, plants that climb and grow like those in a fairy tale, birds and butterflies that land on a petal of a rose, snakes that coil and wrap around –these are the motifs that create Aida Bergsen’s garden of jewels. Aida’s…
Read MoreIndian Summer- Cactus de Cartier, A Perfect Transition into Fall
Mother Nature has provided inspiration in jewelry throughout history particularly in flora and fauna themes. Cartier is no exception. Since the early 20th century, the renowned house has blossomed with imaginative takes on garden-variety roses to pretty delicate wild flowers. This summer, the house turned up the heat and looked to the desert for…
Read MoreSeptember’s Birthstone is 2000 YEARS OLD AND SHINING AS BRIGHT AS EVER
We are bringing back this story from last year on Sapphires. The article traces some of the history on the legendary gem and many of the celebrities who counted sapphires as their favorites. It is also this month’s birthstone and there are numerous antique, vintage and modern styles from which to choose for lucky September…
Read MorePEARLS PAST AND PRESENT
With our preview of the new book The Pearl Necklace (Assouline; release date: October 2016), our article on Danish designer Lene Vibes’ magical approach to pearls and our profile on LA-based designer Hisano’s organic boho-style geode and gemstone pearls, we thought it fitting to pay homage to favorite stories of iconic pearls and stylish…
Read MoreBodies In Motion—Moritz Glik Explores The Natural World
Many of you may know the slogan “No one shakes it like Moritz Glik”, from social media or the retail stores in which you shop. The Manhattan-based Moritz, Brazilian-born Moritz, creates Art Deco inspired architectural and geometric silhouettes shimmering with the movement of sparkling white and colored diamonds sapphires and rubies. His designs are also…
Read MoreBANDING TOGETHER OVER HISTORY: THE ENAMEL COMPARTMENT RING
What happens when you are an antique shop owner and find a similar piece to one of your top 10 favorite historical pieces of all time–one that you have been visiting in a museum’s permanent collection and that you have been going back to see again and again on the museum’s website? Elation! Joy!…
Read MoreChanel High Jewelry Transforms The Iconic Wheat Sheaf Talisman
The symbol of the wheat sheaf (one of my personal favorites), which has represented prosperity, abundance and happiness throughout history, takes its place among the iconic talisman and motifs in Chanel’s High Jewelry Collection. The new jewels are named Les Blés de Chanel, and are comprised of rich, lifelike gold stalks laden with marquise…
Read MoreBuccellati and Giambattista Valli: When Haute Couture and High Jewelry Collections Collide
[slide-anything id=’794′] I have been having a romance with the house of Buccellati for as far back as I can remember. My passion grew even stronger when I interviewed Gianmaria Buccellati in 2002 . During that first interview with him in his New York-based Madison Avenue shop, he explained, “My father Mario came from a…
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