Archive for July, 2007

The Webb Effect

July 30th, 2007

Since I have been less than dili­gent with regard to my post­ing, I am try­ing to make up for it by adding two short but inter­est­ing entries this week. For those of you who have been log­ging on in the past month or so, I apol­o­gize. I am just fin­ish­ing up my book and have […]

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July 18th, 2007

Van Cleef & Arpels has just launched a new line of jew­els suit­able for the pre-teen set and/or the youthful–or maternal–at heart. The col­lec­tion, enti­tled Sweet Alham­bra, has a happy-go-lucky-whistle-tune that reminds me of those now highly col­lectible charm bracelets from the 1950s. It con­sists of an assort­ment of VCA best­sellers, the 4-leaf clover, […]

Say, It’s Only A Paper Moon…

July 8th, 2007

Both of the amaz­ing instil­la­tions above were done by artist, Masao Yamada who works from Pine Island Art Stu­dio in Weeki Wachee, Florida. And while I haven’t for­got­ten that this is a jew­elry blog, the point I am mak­ing here is about scale, artis­tic aes­thetic and that adorn­ment, in so many ways, is also sculp­ture.
Sculptor […]