Here is an announce­ment from Rizzoli’s pub­lic­ity depart­ment today:
We are pleased to announce that Lori Ettlinger Gross, author of Brooches: Time­less Adorn­ment, will be on MARTHA on Feb­ru­ary 8^th.
In NYC, MARTHA airs on WNBC/Channel 4 at 11am ET. Check other local list­ings for times and stations.

On Jan­u­ary 22, 2010, Thomas Jefferson’s watch key will be sold by Christies. Watches in the eigh­teenth cen­tury were wound by hand using a key-shaped device; they had to be wound each and every day. This par­tic­u­larly remark­able exam­ple con­tains the plaited auburn hair of his deceased wife, Martha Wayles Jef­fer­son, who was thirty-three at […]

1stdibs.com, long a des­ti­na­tion for those whose tastes in fur­ni­ture and the dec­o­ra­tive arts may be as dis­parate as a pair of circa 1740 Chi­nese Kang Xsi vases or a match­ing set of Paul Evans Cityscape Shelv­ing Units from the 1970s, has been show­cas­ing a jew­elry depart­ment since Octo­ber 2008. What is sur­pris­ing are the […]

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New post today on The Jew­elry Styl­ist: Do This/Give Back

OK..the seg­ment has been resched­uled. Flea mar­kets, antiques shows, tag and estate sales will be beck­on­ing, and I’ll be first in queue because I can no longer remain clois­tered in my office due to the inclement weather in New York; it’s been a ridicu­lously rainy spring. I can’t wait to traipse the alley­ways and aisles, […]

Last week’s Met Gala at The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art in New York was its usual photo-op affair for celebri­ties and mod­els, with empha­sis on those taller-than-thou since they were the focus of the new exhi­bi­tion, Mod­els as Muse: Embody­ing Fash­ion. Vet­eran designer and model men­tor, Azze­dine Alaia, was not included in the show and […]

Circa 1980, gold and dia­mond “rivet” bracelet (pri­vately owned), visit www.chartreusenewyork.com for other great exam­ples!
There was a lot of bow­ing at the alter of the 1980s in Paris this past week. Well…if we are look­ing back to the era of the strong shoul­der and glitz, there is some­thing to be said about the jew­elry too. […]

And now for some­thing com­pletely different…London Fash­ion Week. With all the incred­i­ble stu­dio jew­el­ers in Lon­don, it would seem to be a nat­ural fit for British design­ers to really per­son­al­ize their looks with a few well cho­sen, or even custom-made, items. Not sure why more of them don’t — there was very lit­tle by way […]

Begin­ning March 1^st, the jew­elry rotunda at Bergdorf’s in New York City will be show­ing a new act, artist/artisan, Janis Pro­vi­sor. She is a wel­comed addi­tion to the ros­ter of stars that reside there: Siegel­son, Fred Leighton, Paul Morelli, Tony Duquette, Alex Sep­kus, et al.
Pro­vi­sor is a painter/print maker cum jew­elry designer, who started making […]

Leave it to Balenciaga’s Nico­las Ghesquière and Michael Kors to offer up a prac­ti­cal les­son in acces­soriz­ing with a sin­gle neck­lace. These images are from their pre-fall 2009 shows (all the images are from Style.com):
At Balen­ci­aga, Ghesquière took a shorter (I’m guess­ing about eigh­teen to twenty inches in length) gold chain link neck­lace and placed […]