Archive for May, 2007

Red Carpet Recap at Cannes

May 29th, 2007

The Cannes Film Fes­ti­val is known for it’s cool cin­e­math­eque com­raderie. Red car­pet glam­our is never as pre­cisely chic as it is at this old world event. So leave it to Chopard to act as a fairy god­mother and sweep their magic wand over stars from across the globe, dust­ing them with gems like powdered […]

Engagingly Sweet–And More Than A Little Bit Personal

May 20th, 2007

June is com­monly a month of wed­dings and betrothals and while DeBeers would like to con­vince you oth­er­wise, dia­monds and the four c’s (cut, clar­ity, color and carat weight) aren’t your only choices in this depart­ment.
This is espe­cially true if you want a beau­ti­ful ring, no mat­ter what you choose. And there will be […]

New Jewelry For Fall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

May 18th, 2007

These lovely orna­ments are just some of the won­der­ful offer­ings we can look for­ward to this com­ing Sep­tem­ber at The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art in New York City. The Met’s jew­elry is unique for its qual­ity and atten­tion to detail. The bril­liance behind these designs isn’t merely a mat­ter of copy­ing ancient tech­niques using today’s […]

Pins on Mother’s Day

May 13th, 2007

The white, lush flow­ers of an elo­quent and old dog­wood tree that sits in our neighbor’s yard float over to our side and hang in the air like paper lanterns. I see them out­side my bed­room win­dow on the sec­ond floor of our home every spring. When the sun taps the blooms and the wind […]