I can’t believe JEWELHISTORY.COM is almost five years old! March 1^st marks this mile­stone. This blog began as a labor of love, a way to talk about jew­elry that didn’t exist on the net — or any­where else. I’ve seen my thoughts reprinted and bor­rowed through­out the years and all I can say is a […]

Our son and web devel­oper, Josh Gross, was inter­viewed by BBC5LIVE’S Jamil­lah Knowles about his launch of HOPPER — a web app that allows you to save links to images, text, and files to a cloud instead of send­ing them to your already over­stuffed email box. It’s FREE, and has been the solu­tion to what […]

This week’s episode was The Wiz­ard of Oz. The show began with Ken­neth Cole’s noir direc­tive for Hol­i­day 2011 — clearly a nod to the per­sonal style of Wicked Witch of East. It was black, black, and more black: black dresses (didn’t we already have the LBD chal­lenge…?), black pants, black faux fur, and black […]

I’m rep­re­sented by Ran­dom House Speak­ers Bureau, the web­site of which has just relaunched with a gor­geous new look. If you would like to book a lec­ture for the com­ing year, please con­tact Kim Thorn­ton at kthornton@randomhouse.com. My new RHSB web page may be accessed here

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 […]

Min­ing pre­cious met­als is a murky busi­ness. Cyanide leach­ing is just one of many health, safety, and eth­i­cal issues that makes min­ing pre­cious met­als so ques­tion­able in prac­tice and in the­ory. Once the metal is extracted, the ore is crushed, piled in enor­mous heaps, and sprayed with cyanide. This causes the gold to leach out […]

Yes, ten days is too long between posts, in case any­one was count­ing. I’ve been a busy, busy, per­son of late. I did a voice over for a web mag­a­zine this week, and believe it or not, I also had a cou­ple of very inter­est­ing job inter­views. I can’t say who, what, or when, however, […]

Update 3.11.11 — Prayers for the peo­ple of Japan, and for those on our own shores. If you want to help, please donate to the Amer­i­can Red Cross. I did as soon as I heard the news. Ah, Paris, where fash­ion and jew­elry are just…killer? Naughty, or intim­i­dat­ing? Jean Charles de Castel­ba­jac sent down the runway […]

Though only a senior at Mont­clair State Uni­ver­sity in New Jer­sey, Melissa Graff’s swirling cop­per, brass, gold and sil­ver wire jew­elry com­bines con­tem­po­rary art, Mod­ernist sculp­ture and mas­sage ther­apy with the eye of a jour­neyed arti­san. Trained as a masseuse, Graff molds her neck­laces so that they fit com­fort­ably along the touch points of the […]

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