ANTIQUE SPEAK

When you scroll through American born, Paris-based Alexandra Hutchings owner of Métier Paris’  website or Instagram feed, you immediate get a feeling that there is more than meets the eye. Her uncanny sense of what is rare,  soulful and beautifully crafted are right there for you to see in her skillfully curated collection of jewelry…

I have known Lorraine Wohl for over 20 years, the first five of which I spent trying to convince her to sell me her personal Belle Époque diamond pave set heart necklace, her  two perfect examples of rose cut Georgian rings, which she wore on the same hand and her ultra delicate bezel diamond Belle…

If you aren’t already familiar with Pat Saling, it’s time to get to know her. Her first full-time job in the jewelry business was working for the legendary Fred Leighton, where she agreed to work for a month and wound up staying 21 years, dealing with the shop’s celebrity clients, world-renowned dealers and the most…

  It was 18 years ago when I first met U.K.-based Pat Novissimo of Lowther Antiques at a trade fair at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. I went to visit her booth on the introduction of a well-known New York City dealer, for whom I’d been working on the weekends, while writing for magazines…