Stellene Volandes

5 days ago | harpersbazaar.com | Stellene Volandes

La fortuna, si dice, premia gli audaci. E così sembra fare anche il mondo della gioielleria. Sfogliando gli annali dei grandi collezionisti, emerge un tema chiaro: il rischio nella gioielleria è la vera ricompensa. Coloro che hanno osato investire nell'originalità e nell'insolito, in palette audaci e pietre dal taglio rivoluzionario, in pezzi carichi di mito e significato - sono i loro gioielli che ricordiamo.

1 week ago | townandcountrymag.com | Stellene Volandes

French silversmiths of the 1920s, Swedish design, the 1970s, Jean Després. Do you follow? If so you’d be perfectly at home joining the ongoing conversation between Reed Krakoff and Athena Calderone. Shared references are key, they say, to their new collaboration of jewelry for John Hardy. The dialogue began when Krakoff was Tiffany’s creative director and Calderone invited him to be a guest on her podcast. “I held him in such high regard,” she says.

1 week ago | ca.style.yahoo.com | Stellene Volandes

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links."French silversmiths of the 1920s, Swedish design, the 1970s, Jean Després. Do you follow? If so you’d be perfectly at home joining the ongoing conversation between Reed Krakoff and Athena Calderone. Shared references are key, they say, to their new collaboration of jewelry for John Hardy. The dialogue began when Krakoff was Tiffany’s creative director and Calderone invited him to be a guest on her podcast.

1 week ago | townandcountrymag.com | Stellene Volandes

The legendary diamond mines of Golconda are all gone now. The demand for their extraordinary stones—devoid of nitrogen, their color has been described as “whiter than white” and “as clear as a drop of water.” “The Golconda mine of India ran along two rivers which meant extremely fertile ground. It gives them a transparency and a softness that is unlike diamonds from anywhere else in the world,” Rahul Kadakia of Christie’s told me for a piece I wrote on these historic diamonds for T&C in 2012.

2 weeks ago | townandcountrymag.com | Stellene Volandes

There are certain jewels that feel distinctly American. Their outlines are a bit more audacious, their stones and colors joyfully bold, their motifs defy the traditional playbook. Walk into the David Webb store on Madison Avenue and you will instantly understand. That oversize zebra cuff is not kidding around, those emerald shoulder duster earrings are anything but shy, that Tree of Life breastplate is no one’s idea of a wilting flower.