**12.01.11 — Please follow me today on Twitter: @Jewelhistory It’s Elizabeth Taylor eve, the day before the New York press preview of Christie’s exhibition of the jewelry, clothing, and decorative items that belong to the actor-icon-activist (a portion of the proceeds from the exhibition admissions and publications related to the sales will be donated to […]
It’s getting noisy around here. Yes!!!! (fist pump) Our home is ringing with laughter, busy with hustle and bustle, doors revolving from comings and goings, and the greeting of arrivals, and still more arrivals. This is more like it! Happy Thanksgiving! Our now much too quiet house has been difficult to get used to since […]
Desiring is so very different from needing. The book above is both a want and need; a want, if you would just love to spend a little time with some of the most fabulous jewelry ever created and a need if you simply must know more about about the amazing designs contained in the secret […]
I returned from my whirlwind trip late last night. Yesterday I gave a lecture on collecting vintage jewelry at the Woman’s Athletic Club of Chicago. The trip was great and my second to the windy city. It lived up to its name too. It was really cold. Yet there I was and it was as […]
James won for his shoes. Kelly got sent home for making bad ones. James makes shoes for a living, Kelly doesn’t (she makes handbags and a some jewelry too). Who will win this challenge? Duh. Swarovski bling was in the mix too: in addition to a pair of shoes, the designers were asked to create […]
This suite of imperial jewels will be sold by Sotheby’s in Geneva on November 15, 2011. According the auction house, this is likely the most important parure of antique colored diamond jewels to come into the auction market in the last fifty years. The gems and the parure have a fascinating back story: the diamonds […]
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