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1 month ago | 
jckonline.com | Annie Watson |Brittany Siminitz |Rob Bates |Annie Davidson
In the pantheon of 20th-century jewelry designers, few possessed the singular vision of Suzanne Belperron, and fewer still counted icons like fashion editor Diana Vreeland among their admirers. A Belperron cuff once owned by Vreeland was recently acquired by Siegelson, a longstanding Manhattan retailer that specializes in estate and collectible jewelry.
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1 month ago | 
jckonline.com | Annie Watson |Rob Bates |Karen Dybis |Annie Davidson
Phillips is set to host its 110-lot Hong Kong Jewels auction on March 27. “Reflecting the strong market demand for rare and important colored gemstones and diamonds, this sale is headlined by a stunning array of treasures, featuring the vibrant allure of sapphires, emeralds, and rubies as well as the captivating brilliance of fancy colored diamonds,” said Diana Chang, Phillips’ jewelry head of sale in Hong Kong, in a statement.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Annie Davidson |Samantha Simon |Beth Shea
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
jckonline.com | Victoria Gomelsky |Rob Bates |Annie Davidson |Karen Dybis
Not so long ago, thick gold chains had a reputation in the popular imagination as the adornment of choice for a slick but ultimately unsavory kind of individual: Think used car salesmen, casino pit bosses, and mafiosos, most of whom wore their gilded necklaces nestled amid mounds of chest hair. Over the past decade, however, something happened to annihilate that stereotype once and for all.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
jckonline.com | Victoria Gomelsky |Rob Bates |Annie Davidson
When designer Joy Haugaard, creative director of Lionheart, a fine jewelry brand she cofounded in 2018 with her sister, Sarah, was growing up in Aarhus, Denmark, on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula, the area was so rural that “there were more horses and cows than people,” she tells JCK.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
jckonline.com | Karen Dybis |Annie Davidson |Brittany Siminitz
Remember the “This is not your father’s Oldsmobile” ads? Laure-Isabelle Mellerio is doing something similar with the very chic reinvention of her family’s venerable jewelry maison. Within the past few months, Mellerio has introduced collections, shot a new advertising campaign, and prepared for its residency at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City, all under the direction of Laure-Isabelle Mellerio, the Paris-based brand’s creative director. The company is more than 400 years old.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
jckonline.com | Annie Davidson |Rob Bates |Karen Dybis |Brittany Siminitz
On Sept. 26, Bonhams auction house is hosting an intimate sale in New York of 61 fine jewelry lots, Exceptional Jewels From a Distinguished Collection, that will feature several Oscar Heyman pieces, including a platinum “Birds in Flight” bracelet set with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, and onyx (pictured above). “We are privileged to present such a colorful offering in this single-owner auction,” said Caroline Morrissey, Bonhams’ director and head of jewelry in New York, in a statement.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
jckonline.com | Brittany Siminitz |Rob Bates |Annie Davidson |Karen Dybis
Imagine, for a moment, you’re standing on a bridge. At one end is a land of summer—hot, color-soaked, enchanting. That’s your starting point; your destination is at the other end of the bridge: an autumn woodland—beautifully cool, dusky, just a bit mysterious.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
jckonline.com | Rob Bates |Annie Davidson |Karen Dybis |Brittany Siminitz
Jeff High, the founder of Gemvision and creator of one of the first CAD (computer-aided design) programs for jewelry, died of cancer on Sept. 6. He was 60. High was working at his family jewelry store in 1990 when he decided to marry modern technology with jewelry design. “At that time, all jewelry design and manufacturing was done by hand with a rough sketch and tools and techniques that hadn’t changed in hundreds of years,” according to an online history of the company High started, Gemvision.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
jckonline.com | Annie Davidson |Rob Bates |Karen Dybis |Brittany Siminitz
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