If you still think that wearing jewelry is the same as putting a ring on your finger, wearing earrings, showing off a necklace or surrounding your wrist with a bracelet, you are left behind. The world is running and jewelry is evolving, even the high-end one. Proof of this is Yeprem, a high jewelery Maison…
The Pad returns in London, an exhibition founded in 2007 by the fourth generation Parisian antiques dealer Patrick Perrin. It is the only fair in the UK dedicated exclusively to 20th century and contemporary design. And it is also an opportunity to see precious and rare jewels up close. This year the Pad is scheduled…
A jeweler who represents the tenth generation of a family devoted to gems and jewels. It is Krishna Choudhary, an Indian moved to London, who has a very long history behind him. The high jewelery of his brand, Santi, is now the subject of an exhibition-sale organized by the London auction house Phillips. The exhibition,…
Last spring Marco Bicego launched his first high jewelery collection.The collection is simply called Alta and includes a series of pieces made with precious stones, such as diamonds and sapphires, but without deviating from the stylistic path taken by the Maison for over 20 years. does. Indeed, more: the Alta collection incorporates some of Marco…
Towe’s high jewelry seen through the eyes of biology, as if under a microscope ♦ ︎ Towe Norlén is the founder of the brand that bears her name. The designer is Swedish and the headquarters of the small Maison founded in 1999 is Stockholm, but before creating her own brand, Towe worked in Geneva, Switzerland,…
For over a century, Chaumet has been a pillar of Place Vendôme, the Parisian square that is the temple of high jewelery. The Maison, famous among other things for its tiaras, however, has an even older date of birth: in 1802 it was already Napoleon’s official jeweler. Chaumet is also one of those Maison that…
Time travel has always been a human being’s dream. Together with another fantasy, that of space travel, among the stars. Put these two aspirations together and you can understand the meaning of 1932, haute joaillerie collection by Chanel. Because the high jewelery presented in Paris during the haute couture week is a tribute simultaneously to…
A natural woman is not only impervious to prejudices and prepackaged roles, but also sensitive to the elements of nature. The basic ones: wood, sand, wind. Starting from here Boucheron, through the hand of the creative director Claire Choisne, presented the new high jewelery collection called Ailleurs, that is places that are not Paris. Deserts,…
Imagine buying a huge 910-carat diamond, the fifth largest in the world, for $ 40 million. And then, after admiring it, imagine making it into small pieces. Let’s say, 82 parts. This is what Van Cleef & Arpels chose. The great Parisian Maison in 2018 bought Lesotho Legend, big rough diamond. The stone, in addition…
Geography lesson according to Mikimoto. What are the five continents of the world? Africa, America, Australia, Eurasia, Antarctica. The new high jewelry collection of the Japanese Maison, famous for its pearls, is called a Wild and Wonderful, and redesigns the map of the globe, with a free geographical interpretation. The result is exceptional. The jewels,…
Buccellati nell’atmosfera couture delle sfilate parigini. La Maison milanese ha deciso di esporre alcuni pezzi inediti della collezione Vintage all’interno della boutique di rue Saint Honoré. L’evento coincide con la settimana della Haute Couture e rappresentano l’evoluzione stilistica di Buccellati, senza però perdere il suo stile caratteristico. I gioielli selezionati sono stati realizzati tra gli…
What distinguishes a high jewelry collection from another? The design, the stones used, the style of those who conceived it. Agree. But there is more. A jewel is unmistakable only if, alongside the opulence of its elements, materials and gems, it also retains its own spirit, something more that determines its charm. As in the…
The beauties of the world are many. To those notes, the 97 pieces of the new high jewelery collection signed by Cartier are now added. The collection is called, in fact, Beautés du Monde and consists of necklaces, bracelets, earrings and seven rings, which we are talking about today. They are special rings, which deserve…
One of the most exclusive jewelery brands in the world is Chatila. The Maison was founded in 1860 and has remained a family-run business, with the founder’s grandchildren actively involved in the day-to-day running of the company. Chatila works in between Geneva and London but, in reality, the jewels are designed in Italy and Paris,…
In times when sustainability has an increasingly important value, and in which light becomes a precious tool for generating energy, Piaget is on the right wavelength. Okay, that of the Swiss Maison is a poetic interpretation of light, which is reflected in its high jewelry. But the fact is that for years Piaget has been…
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hortus Deliciarum, was a medieval manuscript written by Herrad of Landsberg an Alsatian nun from Hohenburg Abbey, better known today as Mont Sainte-Odile. It was perhaps the first encyclopedia, begun in 1167 as a pedagogical tool for the young novices of the convent. Today, however, it is a Gucci high…
It’s nice to take flight. Philippe Lauras has produced works for Maison such as Jar, Fred, Harry Winston, Van Cleef et Arpels, Marina Bulgari … At a certain point in his life, however, he rightly decided that he could also create something for himself: the designer has thus shows on the occasion of GemGèneve the…
Hè Tíng (鶴 庭) is a Chinese word that is part of the «Water pavilion of the Hermit Lin» (林 處 士 水亭), an ancient poem of the Song dynasty, written by Yaozuo Chen. Nowadays it is also a high jewelery Maison that takes the name, simplified, of Heting. The poem tells the story of…
The new uncompromising geometries of Etho Maria, a maison that combines ceramic and diamonds ♦ Born in the home of philosophy, Athens, Etho Maria has chosen the philosophy of luxury with a bit of surprise. The Maison, which from Greece soon expanded to the rest of Europe and the USA, is anchored to the idea…
Victoire de Castellane has the merit of surprising without limitations to the aesthetics of her high jewelry. As is now tradition, Dior presented its couture collections in Paris with a view of the summer. The high jewelery collection this year is called Print. Like the verb to print in English. The creative director’s idea seems…