The numer­ous but­tons avail­able for Mr. Obama’s inau­gu­ra­tion are as var­ied in design as they are in the num­bers of peo­ple don­ning them today. It is a sin­gle moment in time when every­one wants to wear a pin. Although com­mem­o­rat­ing this impor­tant day for the United States isn’t new to those of us who […]

For your enjoy­ment here are a few more images:

Cash­mere is the new black in this year’s hol­i­day cat­a­logs. Sweaters, gloves, and hats in double-ply are pre­sented in the stores like fresh apples at the gro­cer; there they are, front and cen­ter, ready to be picked up and paid for. To all these sweet, prag­matic prof­fer­ings I reply with a heart­felt… Bah, Hum­bug! Jewelry […]

Pin­ning down our soon-to-be first lady’s bejew­eled mien isn’t dif­fi­cult. She likes brooches. While I can­not take credit for her inspi­ra­tion, I would be curi­ous to know if she has read my book, Brooches: Time­less Adorn­ment. A signed copy would seem an appro­pri­ate thank you for “brooching” the sub­ject (ok, bad pun).
Need­less to say, I watched […]

Before I begin this post, I have news that I would like to share with you. Jew­el­his­tory is expand­ing! You will see adver­tise­ments as well as addi­tional pages that have con­tent devoted to your (and my) favorite sub­ject. The tran­si­tion will be slow, but hope­fully steady over the course of the next few months. I […]

Enti­tled Together/Apart, Aaron Faber Gallery’s newest exhi­bi­tion brings the cloy­ing taste of the suite to its sac­cha­rine end. The pre­sen­ta­tion is on view until Novem­ber 30, 2008.
This idea of coor­di­nat­ing three or more pieces of jew­elry, which is the def­i­n­i­tion of a suite — or parure (tech­ni­cally this term indi­cates four or more kin­dred ornaments), […]

The intri­cately crafted bracelets above were hand worked by the met­al­smiths of Laos. As you can see from the image above, the pat­terns in these pieces have a lot in com­mon with the ornate gold dec­o­ra­tion of the tem­ples and shrines that dot the pic­turesque land­scape. This type of jew­elry, which was orig­i­nally cre­ated as […]

The kind of infor­ma­tion posted here isn’t some­thing you will find in your aver­age (or above aver­age) fash­ion mag­a­zine. And it won’t be a bor­ing recount­ing of jew­elry his­tory either. That’s my first promise to you. It’s just that as a free­lance writer/jewelry historian/soon-to-be book author, I want to offer more use­ful infor­ma­tion than just […]