Jewels and Jewelry

November 22, 2017

Jewelry: In Jewelry, Matching Just Isn’t Cool Any More

Advertisement Move over matchy-matchy: Fashion’s trend for bold mash-ups of contrasting prints and colors is making its way into the world of jewelry. “Customers are increasingly […]
November 22, 2017

In Cartier and Diamonds, an Unusual Kind of Conservationist

Advertisement LONDON — For Ruth Powys, the chief executive of Elephant Family, an international charity that works to protect Asian elephants and their habitat, jewelry may […]
November 22, 2017

Generations of Jewelry in a Small Italian City

Advertisement LUCCA, Italy — On a narrow cobbled thoroughfare in this small Tuscan city, one shop’s windows glimmer with jewelry created over centuries. Gioielleria Carli, founded […]
November 22, 2017

Jewelry: Lalaounis Continues to Create ‘Jewelry With a Soul’

Advertisement ATHENS — Family lore has it that when the hospital discharged each of Ilias Lalaounis’s four daughters after their births, the first place their father […]
November 22, 2017

Atelier Swarovski Turns to Man-Made Gems

Advertisement Early this year, when Nadja Swarovski was deciding how to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Atelier Swarovski, she had a vision. “I wanted to do […]
November 21, 2017

Design, Jewelry and Cora Sheibani

Advertisement LONDON — Cora Sheibani was raised with an appreciation for exquisite design. The daughter of the Zurich art dealer Bruno Bischofberger and his wife Christina […]
November 21, 2017

Jewelry: The Secret World of the Gem Carver

Advertisement In Résonances de Cartier, the house’s most recent high jewelry presentation, the diamonds, emeralds and rubies that are de rigueur in such collections were combined […]
November 21, 2017

India’s Jewelry Tradition of Gold is Turning to … Concrete?

In India, gold jewelry has long been used to celebrate marriage and childbirth or presented as gifts during religious festivals. Ornate bridal pieces still are popular […]
November 21, 2017

When ‘Fashion Takes a Trip,’ Jewelry Comes Along

Advertisement Fashion and jewelry are among the most visible indicators of what a society values, what it lacks and desires, mourns and celebrates. Such connections are […]
November 15, 2017

Watches: The Jeweler vs. The Watchmaker

“Cartier invented the wrist watch,” Pierre Raniero, the company’s director of image, style and heritage, declared as he sat his office in a surprisingly nondescript building […]