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 […]

For your enjoy­ment here are a few more images:

Yes­ter­day I attended the pre­view of Van Cleef & Arpels’ newest col­lec­tion, Les Jardins (The Gar­dens) at The Plaza in New York. The designs are inspired by our response to nature, and are divided into four sep­a­rate land­scape gen­res. The col­lec­tion is a panorama of skill and inge­nu­ity, and show­cases what VCA does best.
Jardin de la […]

It must have some­thing to do with a nest egg. The one I wish I’d been smart enough to put aside since our 401(k) began to molt. Still, there I was review­ing the beau­ti­fully ren­dered work of British met­al­smiths, select­ing three images for my post today, when I real­ized I was in bird land.
Self-taught and London-based […]

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 […]