Karl Lager­feld was feel­ing the cold — faux fur and tum­bled agates (or poured glass) col­lided,  sil­ver  ici­cles dripped off the neck in a frozen water­fall and bracelets were lay­ered with stone like sed­i­men­tary rock for­ma­tions. Brrrrrrrr…hot choco­late anyone?

For putting on the show well into the first hour! I was among the 3.1 mil­lion view­ers with­out the Oscar tele­cast and believe you me, I was scram­bling to find cov­er­age some­how, some­where, with­out hav­ing to drag my hus­band to a local bar with a satel­lite dish. I wasn’t rel­ish­ing the thought of hav­ing to […]

The cat­a­log, Enam­els of the World, is for any­one who has admired the textile-like and gem­stone effects recre­ated in the enam­eled jew­els and objet d’art of  Peter Carl Fabergé, Rene Lalique, and Cartier, and of course, the pan­theon of enam­elist– jew­el­ers who fol­lowed in their foot­steps.  The New York Times’ Vic­to­ria Gomel­sky wrote a superb […]

To see my Roman­tic Jew­elry seg­ment on MARTHA, please click here.
You may also watch any of the other seg­ments and/or view the show in its entirety (FYI: all of Martha’s guests, myself included, share a spe­cial Valentine’s Day mem­ory at the very top of the hour)

Please note: The jew­elry that was part of my seg­ment on MARTHA is for sale at the fol­low­ing gal­leries in New York:
–Pri­mav­era Gallery
–Kentshire Gal­leries
–Doyle and Doyle
Con­tact infor­ma­tion for these anti­quar­ian retail­ers is listed here.

Tiffany & Co. (Amer­i­can, 1837-present), Pauld­ing Farn­ham (Amer­i­can, 1859–1927), designer.
Iris Brooch, (Pink tour­ma­lines, green gar­net, plat­inum, c.1900–1901). Pri­mav­era Gallery, NY
Photo: Howard Agriesti, […]

Nineteeth-century cameo cuf­flinks of labrador dogs carved in Labradorite. Image from www.vicmart.com
Labradorite is one of my favorite min­er­als used in jew­elry. I was first intro­duced to it many years ago, while work­ing at Edith Weber & Asso­ciates. As Edith and I were pack­ing jew­elry for an upcom­ing show, she handed me an antique ring set […]

Sorry about the no-show on Thurs­day and Fri­day — I’m back down from the clouds, rested, and feet planted firmly on the ground. Thank you for your patience.

In review­ing the images from the Chanel and Chris­t­ian Dior Spring Cou­ture 2010 shows, the most appar­ent design schematic for jew­elry was pro­por­tion. It seemed that Karl Lagerfeld […]

Happy new year to all! I’ve just returned from the land of grand­par­ents and far too many good restau­rants: Palm Beach, Florida. So in my relaxed and rested state off I go to the gym to rid of my sins. In truth, I don’t really care. Togeth­er­ness can’t be counted in calo­ries. Um, well, actually…it […]

As this year comes to a close, my last post is about look­ing back. No…not at 2009 — I should like this year with its finan­cial woes and pro­fes­sional fits-and-starts behind me. Instead, today, we are going back, oh, about one hun­dred and seventy-four years to the begin­ning of the reign of Queen Vic­to­ria. She […]

some of the season’s most com­pelling jew­els for sale will be in Boston next week at Skin­ner Inc. Sotheby’s and Christie’s New York will be host­ing their preview’s this com­ing Fri­day. There is noth­ing more fes­tively restora­tive than pour­ing over an auc­tion cat­a­log with a cup of some­thing warm and deli­cious. Star­bucks’ pep­per­mint hot […]