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	<description>A few sparkling insights from Lori Ettlinger Gross</description>
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		<title>Chanel Fall 2010: The Iceman Cometh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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?






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		<link>http://jewelhistory.com/2010/03/11/chanel-fall-2010-the-iceman-cometh/</link>
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		<title>Academy Awards 2010: I Want to Thank WABC and Cablevision…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jewelhistory.com/2010/03/08/academy-awards-2010-i-want-to-thank-wabc-and-cablevision/</link>
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		<title>The Art Influence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art, in form or in substance, is the cradle for fashion’s revelations. The runway is a canvas, sculpture, or gem of a designer’s invention. Marni’s Consuelo Castiglioni took what looked like a hatching egg, or a dinosaur’s ocular cavity (and perhaps still, this could be another Avatar moment, a theme that took the runways by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jewelhistory.com/2010/03/04/the-art-influence/</link>
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		<title>Can Jewelry Be Reasonably Priced **and** Well Crafted?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walked the Jewelers of America Show yesterday at the bustling Jacob Javits Center in NYC. The convention center was hosting two other exhibitions, The NYT’s Travel Show and The International Restaurant and Food Service Show. Needless to say, it was a completely fun day for those of us who cannot live on bread alone. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jewelhistory.com/2010/03/01/can-jewelry-be-reasonably-priced-and-well-crafted/</link>
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		<title>Glass, as Gem and Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jewelhistory.com/2010/02/26/glass-as-gem-and-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Fashion Week, Fall 2010: Jewelry’s In the Details…Or Not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I visit NY Fashion Week I want to mention the Antonio Pineda retrospective entitled, Silver Seduction, that will show at the Museum of New Mexico from June 4, 2010 through January 2, 2011. If you aren’t familiar with Pineda’s immaculately executed work,  then permit me to introduce you to a brilliant Taxco designer whose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jewelhistory.com/2010/02/16/fall-2010-jewelrys-in-the-details-or-not/</link>
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		<title>Me on MARTHA: The Video</title>
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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)
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		<link>http://jewelhistory.com/2010/02/10/me-on-martha-the-video/</link>
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		<title>More About Victorian Jewelry…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; 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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jewelhistory.com/2010/02/08/more-about-victorian-jewelry/</link>
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		<title>Going To The Dogs</title>
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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 &#38; Associates. As Edith and I were packing jewelry for an upcoming show, she handed me an antique ring set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jewelhistory.com/2010/02/02/going-to-the-dogs/</link>
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		<title>Spring Couture 2010: Chanel and Dior —        Jewels of Sighs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jewelhistory.com/2010/01/30/spring-couture-2010-chanel-and-dior-jewels-of-sighs/</link>
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