What do we do with black? The myr­iad of choices makes it seem so easy to acces­sorize, but some­how when you are stand­ing in front of that mirror.…..well, I think we’ve all fought the good fight in the bat­tle of doubt, haven’t we?
There are sev­eral ways to han­dle that dark can­vas — and you need […]

Copy­right Don Freed­man from TED MUEHLING: A Por­trait by Don Free­man, Text by Susan Yelavich, Riz­zoli New York 2008
TED MUEHLING: A Por­trait by Don Free­man illus­trates one rea­son for wear­ing this much admired craftsman’s aes­thetic — it is, from the stand­point of wear­a­bil­ity, among the most sen­su­ous of orna­men­ta­tion on the mar­ket today. Muehling’s pieces […]

If the reces­sion has done one thing, it has piled enough “manure” on the old “it’s-about-me” busi­ness model to bury it. In its place, though, is now fer­tile soil for a new par­a­digm to grow and get a healthy start. Coop­er­a­tion across and between related indus­tries sim­ply makes entre­pre­neur­ial sense; there is power in numbers […]

What would you wear to break up that blank—oops, sorry— black can­vas above? Given that this is a jew­elry blog, the answer is pretty obvi­ous. Still, what would you choose? Long gold chains? A lay­er­ing of pen­dants? A brooch? A great big pair of ear­rings? Fab, bold bracelets? Pearls? If vin­tage is your bent, what […]

On Decem­ber 10, 2008, the Wit­tels­bach Blue dia­mond, an his­toric 17^th cen­tury cushion-shaped fancy deep gray­ish blue dia­mond weigh­ing 35.56 carats, was sold for an incred­i­ble $24,311,190.00 — this is a world record ham­mer price for any jewel sold at auc­tion. The gem­stone was pur­chased by dia­man­taire, Laurence Graff.

The fash­ion folk are flum­moxed. In these beyond-your-wildest-dreams-bad econ­omy, they are scratch­ing their Sally Hershberger-coiffed heads and are star­ing at their story boards with pro­found con­ster­na­tion. This is a Walt Whitman/transcendental moment.
“What do they want?” They, mean­ing us, the con­sumers.
The prob­lem is we are not con­sum­ing. We are hunt­ing (for the best price, most […]

After work­ing out this slightly snow-dusted Sun­day morn­ing, I was cruis­ing Style.com in a lazy way, kind of float­ing around a bit to find some unplanned affla­tus (if they use some­thing like Vis­Trac to mon­i­tor the site, sorry…I was not your typ­i­cal surfer), and stum­bled upon the infomercial-like adver­tis­ing Conde Nast prof­fers as style advice […]

Toby Pomeroy’s Eco-Gold and Sil­ver lines are hav­ing a hol­i­day moment at Aaron Faber Gallery this week. The pieces have a pris­tine sil­hou­ette and what the designer refers to as a “forged” (ham­mered) look. Accord­ing to the designer, each item is made in his Ore­gon stu­dio from one-hundred per­cent reclaimed metal of 14K-, 18K-gold […]

For your enjoy­ment here are a few more images:

Yes­ter­day I attended the pre­view of Van Cleef & Arpels’ newest col­lec­tion, Les Jardins (The Gar­dens) at The Plaza in New York. The designs are inspired by our response to nature, and are divided into four sep­a­rate land­scape gen­res. The col­lec­tion is a panorama of skill and inge­nu­ity, and show­cases what VCA does best.
Jardin de la […]