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Diamonds and jewels with Bolaffi

Published on March 14, 2018

Diamonds and jewels, plus watches, at the first Bolaffi 2018 auction in Milan ♦ ︎
Jewelry and watch auctions are back in Milan. To sale at auction is Bolaffi, that Tuesday, March 20, at the Grand Hotel et de Milan is ready to beat a selection of jewelry and watches. The auction top lots are two unmounted diamonds. One is a stepped emerald cut of 6.38 carats, color H, VS2 clarity with Gia certificate (lot 465). The other has an oval cut of 5.01 carats, color H, purity loupe-clean (lot 464), each auctioned starting from 55 thousand euros. A 3,66 carat Fancy Vivid Yellow diamond ring also comes with Gia certificate (lot 463, from 80 thousand euros).
Among the highlights of the jewelry catalog, Bolaffi signals a pair of dangle earrings in natural pearls, one white and one gray with diamonds (lot 458, base 20 thousand euros). Afterwards, a demi-parure in diamonds, emeralds and sapphires formed by a choker and earrings in two-tone gold with a jointed flowers motif (lot 459, base 20 thousand euros), a brooch of ruby from Burmese origin and diamonds in the shape of stylized bouquet in platinum, with a baguette-cut diamonds stem with en tremblant corollas (lot 462, base 12 thousand euros) and a set of Boucheron in gold, turtle and chrysoprase from the seventies (lot 297, base 5 thousand euros).
Ancient jewels include a Castellani yellow gold brooch from the mid-nineteenth century in archaeological style with carnel carvings depicting deities (lot 380, base 4 thousand euros), a hard gold rosé bracelet with Old Europe cut diamond in original box ( lot 260, base 7,500 euros) and two long platinum necklaces with pendant / clock in diamonds signed Leroy (lot 285, base 1,200 euros) and Cartier (lot 381, base 3 thousand euros).
The proposal includes some objet de vertu (objects of particular interest for reasons of history or workmanship) from the 18th century from a noble Italian family, including a refined agate Easter egg with a perforated yellow gold cage, engraved with flowers and decorated with the motto Votre amitié fait ma seule felicité, ie your friendship is my only felicity (lot 258, base 2 thousand euro).
Rolex and Patek Philippe
The watch catalog, consisting of 169 lots, ranges from precious and antique pocket models to the most modern and elegant wristwatches with a rich selection of Rolex Daytona, presented in numerous materials and references among which the unmistakable 6239 with the famous dial Paul Newman (lot 168, base 90 thousand euros). There is no shortage of examples of other Swiss brands, such as the Patek Philippe Hour Glass in platinum and diamonds indexes (lot 166, base 40 thousand euros) and the Royal Oak Dual Time Audemars Piguet (lot 165, base 6 thousand euros).
Destined to fans of the military genre are a single-handed Lemoni Chronograph (lot 9, base 1,200 euros) and a Rolex MKII (lot 66, base 700 euros), both supplied to the English Navy during the Second World War.
Finally, among the fine pocket-sized specimens we find a retrograde Swiss watch with complete calendar and sundial on the back, extremely rare (lot 156, base 11 thousand euros) and an antique English clock with automaton and enamels signed Dormer (lot 155, base 7 thousand EUR).
Auction
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Milan – Grand Hotel et de Milan, via Manzoni 29
10 am, Jewels
4.30 pm, Clocks
Exposure
Milan – Bolaffi, via Manzoni 7
from Saturday 17 to Monday 19 March 2018 (Sunday included), from 10 to 18

Diamante taglio smeraldo a gradini di 6,38 carati

Parure in oro, tartaruga e crisoprasio di Boucheron

Anello con diamante Fancy Vivid Yellow di 3,66 carati

The jewels of Tefaf

Published on March 11, 2018

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Girocollo Glycines di Philippe Wolfers, Art Nouveau. Oro, tormalina intagliata, opale intagliato, rubini, granato

The jewels return to the Tefaf of Maastricht. Here are some of the most interesting pieces ♦ ︎
Tefaf is back (Maastricht, 10-18 March). Founded in 1988, the Dutch city fair is considered the world’s premier appointment for art, antiques, design and special jewelery. Although it has recently multiplied with two events in spring and autumn in New York, the original Tefaf in Maastricht is still the most awaited event. Managed as a non-profit foundation, Tefaf boasts a tradition of masterpieces in every category of art, design and antiques, but also of Haute Joaillerie. And even this year the strong pieces of jewelry are not lacking. You can find very different jewels, from a gold pendant, emeralds and enamel made in Spain in the eighteenth century, to a ring by the Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, or the bracelet with matching ring of Cartier in 18k yellow gold, amethyst and turquoise , dated between 1966 and 1969. But there is no shortage of contemporary jewels, such as earrings with smoky quartz, brown diamonds, bronze and white gold from Hemmerle. It’s also by the refined German Maison is the Harmony bracelet with aquamarine, aluminum and white gold with a diameter of about 8 centimeters, another piece of great design.
Among other things, more in general, Tefaf boasts a great deal of control over the quality, authenticity and condition of the objects proposed: an aspect not to be underestimated when buying vintage pieces. Federico Graglia

Hemmerle, bracciale Harmony con acquamarina, alluminio e oro bianco

Hemmerle, orecchini con quarzo fumé, diamanti brown e oro bianco

Hemmerle, spilla con zaffiro, ferro e oro bianco

Hemmerle, anello in rame, oro bianco e zaffiro

Arnaldo Pomodoro, anello in oro bianco e giallo, con una sfera traforata

Cartier, bracciale e anello in oro giallo 18 carati, ametista, turchese (1966-1969)

Oro smeraldi e smalto 6 x 45 cm 2.4 x 1.8 in — Spilla spagnola del Settecento in oro, smeraldi e smalto

Spilla Calabrone firmata Fabergé con diamanti, rubini e perle

Wallace Chan returns to the Tefaf

Published on February 26, 2018

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Wallace Chan, anello Onde. Diamanti e titanio

Wallace Chan returns to Maastricht’s Tefaf with some pieces out of the ordinary ♦ ︎
At the Tefaf in Maastricht (March 10th-18th, 2018) there are several names of jewelery designer in the catalog. And not just vintage jewelry by great Maison, like Cartier or Van Cleef & Arpels, but also from contemporary designers. In addition to Hemmerle, for example, the master Wallace Chan also returns to the great Dutch art fair, antiques and design.
Read also: The jewels of Tefaf
Wallace Chan is a legend in the world of jewelry and more. Born in a poor family in Fuzhou in 1956 and moved to Hong Kong at the age of five. After a long apprenticeship, in 1987, he devised a method for sculpting figures inside a stone. The technique uses carvings as in cameos to create an image that is then reflected within the gem and creates a three-dimensional effect. As in the jadeite in the shape of a horse’s head, with white diamonds, yellow pink and brown, crystal, tsavorite garnet, on titanium: a piece not to be missed and which you see photographed on this page.
At Tefaf, in any case there are other pieces of unusual jewelry, such as the necklace with citrine signed Andrew Grima, or the ring with the Cassiopea diamond of 4 carats, part of the collection of Amy Burton. Federico Graglia

Wallace Chan, spilla Una storia d'amore. Giadeite a forma di testa di cavallo, diamante, diamante rosa, giadeite, cristallo, diamanti yellow e brown, granato tsavorite, titanio — Wallace Chan, spilla Una storia d’amore. Giadeite a forma di testa di cavallo, diamante, diamante rosa, giadeite, cristallo, diamanti yellow e brown, granato tsavorite, titanio

Anello con diamante Cassiopea, 4,07 carati, collezione di Amy Burton — Cassiopeia Unum ring, 4,07 carat, Amy Burton

Bracciale in oro e corniola, Londra 1962

Collana con citrini e diamanti di Andrew Grima, 1974

Glenn Spiro, anello con diamante taglio marquise su oro rosso e bronzo, 1962

Orecchini Tourbillon di Van Cleef & Arpels in oro bianco e diamanti

Pendente o spilla di Karel Appel, oro giallo, diamanti e smalto

Spillaa forma di gufo di L. Gautrait, in oro, berillo dorato, smalto e diamante, circa 1900

Collana art déco Marchak, con turchesi e lapislazzuli intagliato. Circa 1930

Spilla art déco di Cartier, in platino, diamanti e ametiste

Van Cleef & Arpels, clip in oro rosa, spinelli, diamanti

The jewels of the year of the dog

Published on February 16, 2018

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E. Wolfe Brittany o Springer, spilla Spaniel in oro e diamanti

The year of the dog is started, according to Chinese astrology. And you can celebrate with a jewel ♦ ︎
For the Chinese, it’s Spring festivity. But it is also the new year of the moon. A concept that Westerners did not understand well and then called the Chinese New Year holiday, assimilating it to what is celebrated on January 1st. The Chinese one, however, does not always fall on the same date: in 2018, for example, the Chinese New Year is 16 February. The date, in fact, depends on the new moon and therefore the date varies between January 21st and February 19th. Among other things, in addition to China is also a feast in Korea, Mongolia, Singapore, Malaysia, Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam and Japan, as well as in Chinese communities around the world. With the new year, the astrological sign that according to tradition will influence the next 12 months also changes. The Chinese horoscope assigns the character of an animal each year. In order, they are Topo, Buffalo, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig. For 2018, for example, is the year of the dog. And, of course, many jewelers have decided to dedicate their jewel to the this pet. Here are some. Cosimo Muzzano

Dog Fever, anello Hug in argento e smalto

Giovanni Raspini, bracciale zampe di cane

Spilla a forma di testa di cane in oro, diamanti, rubini

Roberto Coin, bracciale cane con diamanti bianchi e neri, smalto

Spilla a forma di cane in platino con diamanti e rubini

The 9 winners of the Palladio Awards

Published on January 21, 2018

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Andrea Palladio International Jewellery Awards January 2018

At VicenzaOro, the nine Palladio Awards awarded to the world of jewelery were presented. Here are the winners ♦ ︎
It’s defined the Oscar of the jewelry, but perhaps it has no longer need to take Hollywood red carpet as a model. The awards to designers, maison and jewelers who have been delivered for the past five years at VicenzaOro have now become a tradition in themselves. At the Palladio Theater of the Vicenza Fair, therefore, at the opening of VicenzaOro the nine winners of the Andrea Palladio International Jewelery Awards were awarded, which embrace design, production, retail, communication, Corporate Social Responsibility and career. This year the jury was composed by da Silvana Annicchiarico, Director of the Triennale Design Museum, Alba Cappellieri, Professor of Design of the Milan Polytechnic Jewel, and Clare Phillips, Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Here is the result and the motivation of the prizes:
Best Italian Jewelery Designer: Massimiliano Bonoli
The jewels of Massimiliano Bonoli stand out for their vocation for experimentation and innovation both in the materials they are made of, as well as in the technologies and in the disciplinary intersections. His ability to look at the future of high jewelery is rewarded.
Best International Jewelery Designer: Luz Camino
The jewels of Luz Camino represent the meeting between the harmony of natural forms and contemporary elegance. Nature and beauty are interpreted at the highest levels.
The Best Italian Jewelery Collection: Palmiero
The Underwater World Collection is a tribute to the aesthetic perfection of nature and the technical manufacture. This collection comes to life and movement thanks to the excellent goldsmith manufacture and the study of volumes.
The Best International Jewelery Collection: Chanel
The Flying Cloud collection has the merit of translating the memories of the young Coco Chanel into precious material. Sapphires, diamonds and precious metals refer to his trips on the Côte d’Azur, to sailors’ uniforms, to cruises on the Flying Cloud, the yacht that belonged to Hugh Grosvenor from which the collection takes its name.
The Best Jewelery Communication Campaign: Cartier
How would you go for love? it is a celebration of love in small episodes, which refers, with quality and film narrative, to a passionate romanticism, as involving as the precious Cartier.
The Best Jewelry Flagship Store: Tiffany, Milan
The new location of Tiffany celebrates the elegance of the brand in a historic building in Milan that overlooks Piazza del Duomo. Shining shop windows, custodians of iconic collections and extraordinary contemporary works of art, aim to enhance Tiffany & Co’s creations.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Elsa Peretti
The career award goes to a visionary designer who anticipated not only formal but also social changes and translated them into jewels that defined new feminine, courageous, elegant and independent identities.
Jewelery Corporate Social Responsibility: SeeMe
An award to the tenacity of Caterina Occhio for her untiring support to women victims of aggression in Tunisia and Turkey through a simple but powerful symbol: the heart, to combat every form of violence and restore dignity, hope and future to women.
The Best Communication New Media: VC & A
The creativity of Van Cleef & Arpels is emphasized in a dreamlike journey, L’Arche de Noé racontée par Van Cleef & Arpels – Multisensory Jewelery experience by Robert Wilson – Paris, Hong Kong, New York. A sensorial experience that combines the best goldsmith tradition with the new languages of contemporaneity.

Armadillo, disegnato da Massimiliano Bonoli per Mattia Cielo

Palmiero, collezione Underwater World Collection — Palmiero, Underwater World Collection ring

CHanel, Flying Cloud collection — Chanel, Flying Cloud collection

Cartier, campagna How far would you go for love?

Lo store di Tiffany in piazza Duomo, a Milano

Elsa Peretti in un abito Halston e con il suo bracciale rigido Bone, 1971

Collezione Arche de Noé di Van Cleef & Arpels, pappagalli

At the Brafa the Phoenicians with Cartier

Published on January 10, 2018

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Galerie Montaigne, anello di Cartier in oro bianco con diamanti e zaffiri

The new pieces exhibited at the Brafa 2018, in Brussels from 29 January: from the Phoenician necklace to Cartier ♦ ︎
Do you want to buy a Phoenician necklace in gold with turquoise and amethyst of late sarmatian origin and dated during the first years of the Roman Empire? Or do you prefer a Cartier necklace with enamels, diamonds and amethyst from 1905? Or, again, a contemporary pendant with the shape of a mermaid in gold, silver, diamonds, rubies, moonstone and amethyst? You just have to book a flight to Brussels, where from 29 January starts the Brafa (until February 4).
Read also: Precious Brafa
Since 1956 the Brussels Art Fair (Brafa) is one of the oldest and most prestigious art fairs in the world. The exhibited pieces are of particular value, from antiques to modern and contemporary art, to fine arts and jewels. Among the exhibitors, in fact, there are those who offer unique or vintage pieces, all of particular value. Like a Cartier necklace with enamel, gold, diamonds and amethysts, ending with collectible jewelry like a Phoenician gold necklace dating back to the early Roman empire. An opportunity to make tourism combined with jewels. Lavinia Andorno

ANtiche demi parure di collana e orecchini in crisoberillo e argento. Portogallo, circa 1700

Da Chamarande, un bracciale in oro, smeraldi, zaffiri, rubini e diamanti. Circa 1890

Collana fenicia in oro, turchesi e ametista

Eau Revante Belle Impossible pendant Sylvie Corbelin Bourg en Bresse 1958 design jeweller since 2000 18 carat gold silver diamonds brown diamonds ruby moonstone beetle wings amethyst Unique piece — Galerie Martel-Greiner, Eau Rêvante – Belle Impossible, pendente. Sylvie Corbelin (Bourg-en-Bresse, 1958). Oro 18 carati, argento, diamanti, diamanti brown, rubino, pietra di luna, ali di scarafaggio, ametista. Il Beetlewing è un’antica tecnica artigianale che utilizza ali di scarafaggio iridescenti praticate tradizionalmente in Tailandia

Galerie Montaigne, collana in oro, smalto, ametiste e diamanti. Cartier, circa 1950

Graff in blue, Christie’s golden year

Published on December 9, 2017

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Anello con coppia di diamanti blu di Graff: 12,5 milioni di dollari

With two twin blue diamonds from Graff it closes a golden year for Christie’s ♦ ︎
In view of Christmas, the wallet opens more easily. Especially if the expense is to buy Magnificent Jewels. So the Christie’s auction in New York ended with a total sales of $ 62.5 million. 88% of the lots were awarded and 85% by value. The top piece turned out to be a ring by Graff, 3.36 and 2.71 carat Superb Twin-Stone Fancy Vivid Blue Diamond, which reached $ 12.5 million. Two blue twin diamonds, in fact, are quite rare.
Along with the Graff ring, pieces of Buccellati, Bulgari, Cartier, David Webb, Jar, Van Cleef & Arpels and others were sold. Christie’s also points out that even unique jewelry signed by artists, which are rarely appreciated at auction, have been well received. But pieces of Charles Loloma, Georges Fouquet and Raymond Templier were sold above the starting estimates. The auction chronicle (held on December 6) also records the success of the sold private collections, such as Property From The Collection by Senator Jacob K. Javits and Marian B. Javits, the jewels that belonged to Hank Greenberg, and the collection of Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower. In short, a gold closure for Christie’s vintage, back from the sale of emblematic pieces such as The Art of de Grisogono, Creation 1, the largest impeccable D-color diamond ever auctioned, which set a new record world auction for 33.7 million, or Le Grand Mazarin, a light pink diamond of 19.07 carats sold for 14.4 million, and the sale in Hong Kong of The Pink Promise for 32.1 million, world record price per carat of a pink diamond. Federico Graglia

Precious Brafa

Published on December 7, 2017

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Da Epoque Fine Jewels, questo «collier de chien» datato 1910 di Cartier, in platino e diamanti

The Brafa is back, with many ancient jewels. Here are the preview images ♦ ︎
The fastest enthusiasts have already started organizing the trip. From Saturday 27 January to Sunday 4 February 2018 the Brafa reopens, edition number 63, a major antiques show in Brussels. It is not necessary to add, for the fans, that the great antique dealers also include those specialized in jewelery. The Brafa is organized by the Association Foire des Antiquaires de Belgique, and has grown in recent years: the last edition has seen over 61,000 visits. At the 2018 appointment there will be 134 international galleries from 16 countries. To represent Italy, for example, will be the galleries Chiale Fine Art, Il Quadrifoglio-Brun Fine Art, Robertaebasta and Theatrum Mundi. Next to the Belgian Leysen, which will propose its latest creations, there are four galleries specialized in antique jewelry: Bernard Bouisset (France), Galerie Montaigne (Monaco), Chamarande and Epoque Fine Jewels (Belgium). The latter will exhibit an Art Nouveau pendant made by René Lalique in gold, diamonds and citrine quartz pendant decorated with enamels and glass panels engraved with images of two nymphs. Federico Graglia

The comment of the president of the Brafa, Harold t’Kint de Roodenbeke
We are particularly happy with the galleries selected for the 2018 edition. I think the quality level proposed this year is the highest ever, especially at an international level. For the first time, for the first time, we closed the memberships in June! We are not a fair organization and we want to keep the number of exhibitors in this dimension, focusing on quality. This excludes some countries, especially those that do not have medium-term planning habits, but helps us to keep the quality offered to visitors and our collectors high. In recent years, the request is such as to force us to anticipate full-booked. Now we are impatient to open the doors to our visitors.

Tour & Taxis, palazzo dove si svolge il Brafa

Chaumet, orecchini con zaffiri burmesi, diamanti, platino

Alla galleria Bernard Bouisset, collana in oro, platino e diamanti, Francia, 1950

Galleria Leysen, orecchini in oro bianco, smeraldi colombiani e diamanti baguette

Galleria Leysen, anello in platino e diamante taglio smeraldo da 8,32 carati

Collana in platino e zaffiri, Francia, circa 1960

Bracciale in oro rosa e 33 carati di zaffiri colorati

René Lalique, pendente in vetro, smalto, citrino, diamante, oro

The twentieth century at auction

Published on November 9, 2017

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Collana con diamanti, smeraldo e onice di Jean Fouquet

Art Nouveau and Art Deco Jewelry by the best designers at Geneva auction with Christie’s ♦︎
There are many vintage jewelry enthusiasts who are waiting for the grand auction opportunity to see closely pieces that have been closed in drawers and safes for decades. One of these occasions is November 13 in Geneva. Among the Magnificent Jewels from a European collection, there are on sale special Art Noveau and Art Deco pieces of particular beauty. Fine stuff, to collectors, for lovers of jewelery art. But they are also very precious pieces: the overall estimate of this collection exceeds 3 million euros.
The jewels are the result of a collection that has been completed in 30 years by a couple (especially her) who is passionate about this kind of piece, especially of the first half of the twentieth century. The names of the artists and jewelers in the collection are those found in the goldsmith’s history books: René Lalique (50 lots, a record), Henri Vever or Leopold Gautrait, or Georges Fouquet, Raymond Templier, Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels: in all, 110 jewels. Among them is the collection of jewels signed by Lalique, a designer who has created his best and most important pieces of Art Nouveau and has become a myth that continues today. Federico Graglia

Spilla con corallo, diamanti e smalto di Janesich, 1930 — Anello art nouveau con acquamarina, granati e smalto di Georges Fouquet

Pendente art nouveau di rené Lalique, con smalto e diamanti — Pendente art nouveau di René Lalique, con smalto e diamanti

Spilla art nouveau di René Lalique, con smalto e opale

Orecchini di René Lalique, con smalto e perle

Spilla di René Lalique, con smalto e crisoprasio

Anello art déco con zaffiro di Raymond Templier

Cartier at Tefaf

Published on October 29, 2017

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Bracciale di Cartier in corallo, smeraldi, diamanti, a forma di due chimere

Cartier at Tefaf in New York, exceptional pieces with an extraordinary story ♦ ︎
At the Tefaf Autumn Edition, in the second time in New York, the catalog has shown several pieces of Cartier that you can see with a special attention. It is, in fact, jewels (plus a box) that stand out for history and artistic quality. This is the case, for example, of a bracelet that is inspired by two carved, coral carved chimera with round and oval cabochon emeralds and square, round and circular diamonds, round yellow gold hinges. Each one opens in the opposite direction. The jewel remembers the shape of the ancient bracelets with animal heads found by archaeologists: they were used mainly by Middle Eastern and Mediterranean civilizations, from Assyria to Greece. The Cartier bracelet is mounted on platinum and yellow gold. It also has a story that is worth telling.
The Duchess of Windsor
In 1923, Louis Cartier created a clasp with a chimera head (head of a lion, body of a goat and dragon tail) carved in coral, diamonds and emeralds with gold and platinum. It was the first Art Deco chimera: it would become an iconic form of Cartier. The chimera is also a symbol of longevity and success. Cartier has created several chimera-shaped bracelets from 1927 to 1929. In 1933 Jeanne Toussaint assumed the post of director of the luxury jewelery department. At the end of the 1940s the figure of the chimera came back to the fore when the Duchess of Windsor bought a pink coral bracelet very similar to that exposed to Tefaf. Jeanne Toussaint then modernized the design with decorative motifs of Indian inspiration, and with diamonds and emeralds. Federico Graglia

Bracciale di Cartier, oro, lacca nera, diamanti. Circa 1930

Bracciale di Cartier in stile indiano, oro e diamanti. Circa 1939

Collana di Suzanne Belperron, con pietre colorate stile Cartier

Box composto da pannelli fossili di Orthoceras, antico cefalopode simile al calamaro, cinghie di argento sterling lucido e piedini in argento. Circa 1925

Wonders at Tefaf

Published on October 26, 2017

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Wallace Chan, orecchini in titanio con diamanti bianchi e gisalli, tsaforiti, granati, smeraldi

At Tefaf in New York the wonders of jewelery from yesterday and today ♦ ︎
Successful things are replicating. For example, fairs such as Tefaf, an institution founded in 1988 in Maastricht, Netherlands, and soon became the most renowned Art and Antique Fair in Europe. And, last year, also in America, with the New York Autumn Edition, at Park Avenue Armory. In 2017 there is the second test of relocating Tefaf in the States (from 28 October to 1 November). As with the Maastricht edition, most of the pieces exhibited include works of art, antique furniture, and antique furniture. But there are also old and modern jewels, all of the highest quality.
For example, Siegelson presents Cartier art pieces and signed by Suzanne Belperron. But, like in the European edition, there are also today’s designers, such as German Hemmerle, or the Chinese jeweler-artist Wallace Chan, who, alongside a high technical virtuosity design, also uses patented systems to work with titanium. Among the exhibited works, for example, there are the Wonders of Life earrings, which recall a flower blooming by a pine, with roots made of diamonds and emeralds. A green light shines from the bulb made up of purple titanium cheeks, while pink sapphires link the stem of the plant to a white diamond flower. Federico Graglia

Otto Jakob, orecchini in oro giallo parzialmente ossidato

Wallace Chan, orecchini in titanio con diamanti bianchi e gialli, tsavoriti, granati, smeraldi

Wallace Chan, anello in titanio con rubino a forma di esagono e zaffiri rosa

Van Cleef & Arpels, spilla e orecchini in platino, diamanti e zaffiri

Hemmerle, orecchini in oro bianco con argento e peridoti

Hemmerle, anello in bronzo e oro bianco con zaffiro gialli

Hemmerle, orecchini in bronzo e oro con zaffiri gialli

Hemmerle, orecchini con giada, diamanti, argento, oro bianco

Castellani, collana in oro, perle e rubini. Roma, 1880

Cartier sparks in New York

Published on October 18, 2017

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Collier della collezioen Rèsonances di Cartier, con smeraldi e rubelliti

For a week in New York a exhibition of Cartier’s high jewelery ♦︎
If you are in New York and are fond of great jewels, you can admire an exhibition dedicated to Cartier from 21 to 29 October. It is right in Cartier’s Fifth Avenue Mansion where you can admire the new jewelery designs and their artistic genesis, largely of the Rèsonances collection. High jewelry that, for a week, will be under the eyes of not only Vip, but all over the audience. There are over 70 unique pieces designed by 12 Cartier designers in Paris.
Great jewels and big stones, such as the pink gold bracelet with a large tourmaline, the necklace with 13 large emeralds cut into cabochon, or the bracelet that has a large ruby in the center. On the other hand, the colors of the stones have been the source of inspiration for one of Cartier’s most famous jewelery lines, Tutti Frutti. While the class combined with aggressive elegance are at the base of the Panthère line, which is transformed into many different jewels: it’s almost a Cartier symbol for many years, but it always fascinates. A style, that of the Parisian Maison, which now sparks in New York in all its shades. Federico Graglia

Bracciale in oro bianco 18 carati, legno pietrificato, rubini, onice e diamanti — Cartier, bracciale in oro bianco 18 carati, legno pietrificato, rubini, onice e diamanti

Bracciale in oro bianco 18 carati, peridoto di 79,89 carati, onice, smeraldi e diamanti

Bracciale in oro bianco 18 carati, rubelliti, lacca nera e diamanti

Bracciale in oro bianco 18 carati, rubini, onice, cristallo di rocca e diamanti

Bracciale in oro rosa 18 carati, tormalina, zaffiro verde giallo, zaffiri e diamanti

Bracciale Panthère in oro giallo 18 carati, diamanti, smeraldi, diamanti arancioni

Bracciale Panthère della collezione Rèsonances di Cartier, in oro bianco 18 carati, rubelliti, smeraldi, onice e diamanti

Collier Èclosion con mappe in oro giallo, brillanti e granati

Orecchini in platino, acquamarina, diamanti e onice

Orecchini in oro bianco 18 carati, diamanti colorati e bianchi, lacca nera

Bracciale in oro bianco con perle, smeraldi, onice, diamanti

Cartier’s Résonances

Published on October 16, 2017

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Cartier, anello in oro bianco, diamanti bianchi e un carbonado al centro

Résonances, a stunning series of high jewelery by Cartier ♦︎
The Cartier’s high jewelery virtuosity continues with Résonances. There are not reverberating sounds, but colors, shapes, and volumes. The collection was showed in a gala in New York with Carey Mulligan, Sofia Coppola, Diane Kruger, Martha Stewart, Sofia Boutella, Jason Wu, Fernando Garcia e Laura Kim, Arthur Elgort, Jessica Hart, David Neville and Gucci Westman, Jill Kargman, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Carolyn Murphy and so on, after an exclusive London club to present a new round of exceptional pieces, of those who go directly in the historical collections. But why are Résonances? The explanation is simple, are the echoes of the very history of the French Maison, one of few which resides in the Olympus of jewelery. The many creations that have marked Cartier’s life in the jewelery come back, in short, not as replicas, but as ideas that offer the opportunity to present a series of pieces of great visual impact. Great diamonds, screaming emeralds, rubies, but also less common stones such as rubellite, peridot, or the rare sugilite.
Resonances are, for example, those of the style Tutti i Frutti, with a bracelet in which the stones are carved just in the form of more, raspberries, pineapple. Or the echoes of the 1920s are in the diamond tiara and a sumptuous cabochon emerald in the center. There are also large necklaces, such as platinum collar with white diamonds, two stones fancy yellow and pearls. Or the Indian style resonances, with the Bangalore necklace, with sapphires, rubies and diamonds cut to pearls or delicate leaves. But, like in other Cartier jewelery collections, every piece has a story behind it. Or resonances. Giulia Netrese

Anello in oro bianco con diamanti e rubini

Bracciale Eclosion in oro giallo, oro bianco, tormalina intagliata, onice, diamanti, rubino, rubellite

Cartier, bracciale Eurythmie in oro rosa, lapislazuli e diamanti

Collana Bangalore in oro bianco con perline di zaffiro, rubino, smeraldi, diamanti e pietre intagliate

Collana Ecume in platino con diamanti bianchi e fancy yellow briolette

Collana della collezione Résonances con diamanti

Diadema con diamanti e grande smeraldo cabochon

Bracciale-orologio Serpent in oro giallo, con lacca, granati, spessartiti e diamanti

The charge of the 220 with Faraone

Published on October 12, 2017

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Collier stile Art Déco in platino con diamanti taglio brillante di per un totale di 25 carati, con diamante centrale pendente, trasformabile in una spilla nelle due versioni,

Sales poker with 220 lots for Faraone Auction House ♦ ︎
The Four Seasons for the fourth auction of Farone Casa d’Aste. And it seems that the results of the first three sales have galvanized public and bidders: in Milan on November 20, over 220 lots will be beaten in a selection of jewels and watches. With this positive atmosphere, the forecasts are optimistic, with the aim of finding a buyer for over 80% of the auctioned pieces, as was the case at previous auctions.
Many jewelry in the catalog, with glorious signatures like Cartier, Chopard, Tiffany, Bulgari, Buccellati, Boucheron and, of course, Faraone, who is a kind of institution in Milan. There are, of course, jewels that are not signed but valuable. Faraone reports, for example, the art deco style platinum made, with 25-carat diamond cut diamonds with central pendant diamond, which can be converted into a brooch in either version, with or without pendant.
Other Important Items: a Chopard Collar with a 22-carat drop diamond, removable, and brilliant cut diamonds for a total of about 60 carats, a bracelet, always Art Deco signed by Oscar Heyman, dated 1925, and beaten by Christie’s in the 1990s for $ 400,000. Among the most significant lots there are also a pair of white gold earrings, with 15 carat diamond cut diamonds and 13mm natural 13mm pearls, a Cartier London bracelet with a pearl stud and platinum and diamond firmness. For those who think of Christmas gifts, there are also the wristwatches signed by Villa, Sabbadini and Pharaoh, as well as a selection of Patek Philippe watches, Rolex, Breguet, Vacheron Constantin and a rare Audemar Piguet pocket watch from the seventies, whose motion is enclosed by two sapphire glasses.
“We are excited about the path we are doing and look optimistic about this next auction,” comments Vittoria Bianchi, CEO of Faraone. “I can say that in just 18 months, we have achieved the good results and the service we have achieved, and we have made our catalog of items of great thickness specially selected to meet the demands of our customers. Unlike other auction houses, Faraone, having the jeweler’s soul, offers to its customers a true 360 degree service on their precious ones, which starts from the evaluation, from the board if they sell them with their auction house at the best conditions, whether to reassemble them or to dispatch them with a more up-to-date version, or to buy them directly from the maison in the case of masterpieces, both of their own and of other labels”.

Bracciale Art Déco firmato Oscar Heyman, datato 1925

Collier Chopard, con pendente amovibile realizzato in oro bianco con domanti taglio brillante del peso complessivo di circa 60 carati e goccia del peso di 22,20 carati

collier stile Art Déco in platino con diamanti taglio brillante di per un totale di 25 carati, con diamante centrale pendente — Collier stile Art Déco in platino con diamanti taglio brillante di per un totale di 25 carati, con diamante centrale pendente

Orecchini in oro bianco, con diamante taglio brillante da 15 carati e due perle naturali di 13 millimetri — Orecchini in oro bianco con diamante taglio brillante 15 carati e perla naturale 13 millimetri

Orologio Audemar Piguet squelette da tasca degli anni Settanta, il cui movimento è racchiuso da due vetri zaffiro — Audemar Piguet Skeleton, orologio da tasca anni ’70 con catena in oro 18 carati. Cassa 42 millimetri

The Pad of London’s novelties

Published on October 4, 2017

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Anello Vuoi una mentina? Di Suzanne Syz, con tormalina Paraiba, oro, smalto, diamanti

The Pad of London with vintage jewelry, but also with modern design. Here is a selection ♦ ︎
Here is another appointment for art lovers, antiques and jewels, vintage or modern: the Pad of London. In the heart of Mayfair, the chic quarter of the British capital, the Pad is London’s premier exhibition for art, design and decorative arts of the twentieth century. Many galleries, but also single jewelery Maison, want to be present at the Pad to show the best of the selected visitors. It has its own boutique structure: it’s like a concentrate of cultural and wealth at the same time. This year the fair takes place from 3 to 8 October at Berkeley Square W1. There are also jewels. Some, vintage ones are shown by antiquety signatures such as Siegelson, which this year presents valuable pieces of Cartier’s of Thirties. But there are also design signatures like German Hemmerle or Swiss Suzanne Syz: super-modern jewelery, for true connoisseurs, of great class. Or the London-based artist and designer Eliane Fattal, who has collaborated with SJ Phillips, the antique jewelry mecca for 2011, to create unique, historic and modern pieces. It presents resurrected jewelry as contemporary, wearable and sometimes transformable pieces: flowers, leaves, insects, butterflies and animals that have no rivals in their genre. Federico Graglia

Bracciale Art Dèco di Cartier, 1922. Corallo, onice, diamanti

Collana di Cartier, 1935. Diamanti e zaffiri

Eliane Fattal, spilla in oro e diamanti a forma di rosa

Anello di Hemmerle, in bronzo, oro bianco e diamante fancy yellow

Collana presentata da Ma Tei con cristallo di rocca, bronzo

Hemmerle, orecchini in bronzo, diamanti, oro bianco e zirconi

Hemmerle, orecchini in alluminio, oro bianco e diamanti

Sotheby’s, a maxi auction in New York

Published on September 28, 2017

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Bracciale con piccoli elefanti in oro e diamanti di Cartier

A Sotheby’s Maxi auction in New York: for sale also jewels of Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer ♦ ︎
Over 300 jewels with an estimated price for all tastes: from $ 3,000 to $ 200,000. In New York on October 17, Sotheby’s presents the largest auction of jewel of autumn. In the catalog there are vintage and contemporary jewelry signed by the most famous brands such as Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels and Cartier, but also 1950’s design pieces by Trabert & Hoeffer-Mauboussin and Marianne Ostier. There are also classic white diamonds and rings of colored stones of different shapes and sizes.
But these are not the only reasons to call the appointment. In December 2012 Sotheby auctioned a collection of Magnificent jewels from the collections of Estée Lauder and Evelyn H. Lauder, founder and heiress of the big cosmetics company. The sale was organized in favor of the Breast Breastfeeding Foundation, the most authoritative Breast Cancer Organization in the United States and culminated in the sale of an elegant Fancy Intense Pink Diamond Ring from Evelyn H. Lauder’s collection, founder of BCRF. The ring was sold for 8.6 million, donated for research.
Five years later, Sotheby is “honored” to present the jewels of the collection of Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, Estee’s grandson, whose proceeds will continue to benefit from the BCRF. Among the jewels is a ring signed by David Webb, with rock crystals and diamonds, and a diamond ring with diamonds by Van Cleef & Arpels. Federico Graglia

Orecchini con diamanti bianchi e fancy di Repossi

Anello della collezione Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer in oro e diamanti di Van Cleef & Arpels

Spilla di diamanti e smeraldi di Cartier

Anello con diamante fancy intense yellow

Spilla firmata Verdura a forma di moro, corpo in rubino, oro, diamanti, smalto

Spilla con zaffiri, montatura mystery set di Van Cleef & Arpels

Bracciale Chimera di David Webb con nefrite scolpita e decorate con diamanti rotondi e due rubini cabochon

Anello con diamanti e smeraldo ovale di 7,35 carati — Anello con diamanti e smeraldo di 7,35 carati

Hong Kong Tutti Frutti

Published on September 19, 2017

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Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong with Magnificent Jewels by Cartier, Jar and Van Cleef & Arpels ♦ ︎
The Magnificent Jewels return, this time with the addition of jadeite. The jade, in fact, can not miss a jewelry auction in Hong Kong and Sotheby’s takes into account the preferences of its customers in Asia. But, of course, the sale scheduled on October 3 does not only include jewelery made in jade. There are also pieces of exceptional interest, such as a rare Cartier Art Deco bracelet, of the Tutti Frutti series: it is valued at between 1.35 and 1.79 million dollars.
For collectors is a Jar-signed ring, an eclectic jewelry artist. This is a ruby ring of 8.49 carats: a big stone, although the jewel has no design that can be attributed immediately to the creativity of Joel Arthur Rosenthal. It may have more impact the parure by Cleef & Arpels, with diamonds and emeralds: rings, earrings, and necklace will be sell with an estimated $ 2 to $ 3 million, but it would not be surprising if this rating was overcome. Federico Graglia

Anello firmato Jar con rubino di 8,49 carati

Collana di diamanti e zaffiri firmata Harry Winston

Parure di Van Ckeef & Arpels in diamanti e smeraldi

Spilla con diamante fancy yellow e diamanti bianchi

Anello Toi et Moi con rubino a forma di cuscino di 6 carati e diamante di 4,25 carati

The Biennale of high jewelery

Published on September 12, 2017

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Collier a forma di piuma in titanio con diamanti e tormalina Paraiba

In Paris the Biennale des Antiquaires is back with great jewels ♦ ︎
In Paris, at the Grand Palais, the Biennale des Antiquaires (11-17 September) is back. It follows the fair, a bit debated, of 2016. And more, it is still called Biennale, but it was decided that this year will be held every year: who knows if it will change its name. He has certainly changed president: he chose an American, Christopher Forbes, vice president of the publishing house and big collector. In addition, an independent expert committee, called to verify the authenticity of the pieces on display (some fake had caused a scandal last year) was introduced.
In short, the great fair founded in 1959 by André Malraux, novelist and French minister at Culture, changes. But at the same time it remains the same: this year there will be 94 exhibitors with proposals ranging from antiques, Renaissance paintings to Pop art, from watches to jewels. The latter category, for fans, is divided into vintage jewels, with pieces by Maisons as Van Cleef & Arpels or Cartier, and high jewelery with few selected brands: Boghossian, Glenn Spiro, Anna Hu, Moussaieff Jewelers, Nirav Modi. Federico Graglia

Boghossian, anello con diamanti e zaffiri

Anello di de Grisogono con diamante centrale, 412 rubini e 94 diamanti bianchi

Bracciale Tutti i Frutti di Cartier, 1938

Collana di Boghossian con diamanti gialli e bianchi

Orecchini di Boghossian con diamanti gialli e bianchi

Collier e bracciale di Van Cleef & Arpels, 1960

Orecchini di diamanti e rubini di Nirav Modi

Orecchini di Van Cleef & Arpels con zaffiri e rubini

Bonhams, appointment with diamonds

Published on August 31, 2017

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Diamante blu intenso a forma di pera, peso 4 carati

Diamonds and jewels for sale by Bonhams in London, here are the most interesting pieces ♦
Diamonds and jewels, great return for the thrill lovers, that is, the auctions. Among the jewelery sales of the new season stands out also the one organized by Bonhams in London on 13 September. The star of auction will be a blue intense pear shaped diamond of 4.03 carats. Not very large but highly sought-after: this kind of blue tinted diamond has seen the strongest growth in the last 12 months, about 5.5 percent, according to the Knight Frank Luxury investment index based on Fancy Color data Research Foundation. The diamond rating is between 1.5 million and 1.9 million dollars. The sale, however, is made up of 188 lots, including a lot of jewelery with a few thousand dollars valuations, so everyone’s reach. In addition, white and colored diamonds are sold, Sapphires of Kashmir, Burma and Sri Lanka, jewels of great Maison, such as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels or Maobussin. Jewelery is added to those of Grima (Andrew Grima is in London of which we have already talked about). Also worthy of note is a fancy diamond brooch, including a 4,83-karat-shaped gray-blue diamond with dark yellow and brown diamonds on its sides and a Kashmir sapphire with 9,61 carats Octagonal shape: it is estimated between $ 642,000 and $ 899,000. Federico Graglia

Anello con zaffiro del Kashmir ottagonale del peso di 9,61 carati

Cartier, braccialetto con smeraldi e diamanti

Spilla metà Novecento con diamanti fancy

Spilla di Cartier stile art deco con diamanti

Anello con diamante taglio marquise di 4,61 carati, colore D, chiarezza VVS

Cartier queen at Sotheby’s

Published on August 21, 2017

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Spilla con zaffiri, rubini e diamanti di Cartier, 1960

In London, from Sotheby’s, the auctions come back with Cartier’s 1940s and 1950s pieces ♦ ︎
Jewelery auctions are back for fans of vintage pieces and for those who want to take some good blow. In London on September 20, Sotheby’s opens the new season’s dances with a very interesting jewelery sale. In the catalog there are, in fact, a number of Cartier pieces of the forties and fifties. In short, a good way to celebrate the arrival of the fall. They are jewels that use the register of naturalism, in vogue during the postwar period. Some are set using topaz with yellow and sherry color, but also citrines. The sale also includes a selection of jewels from notable 20th-century designers such as Grima, Pol Bury and Mosheh Oved, as well as pieces of Van Cleef, Bulgari and Boucheron and an eclectic mix of jewels from Edwardian and Art Deco periods. Federico Graglia

Gioielli, Jewelry, Joaillerie, Joyas, Jewelen

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Diamonds and jewels with Bolaffi

The jewels of Tefaf

Wallace Chan returns to the Tefaf

The jewels of the year of the dog

The 9 winners of the Palladio Awards

At the Brafa the Phoenicians with Cartier

Graff in blue, Christie’s golden year

Precious Brafa

The twentieth century at auction

Cartier at Tefaf

Wonders at Tefaf

Cartier sparks in New York

Cartier’s Résonances

The charge of the 220 with Faraone

The Pad of London’s novelties

Sotheby’s, a maxi auction in New York

Hong Kong Tutti Frutti

The Biennale of high jewelery

Bonhams, appointment with diamonds

Cartier queen at Sotheby’s