More than 200 jewels and precious objects from the House of Württemberg, formerly one of Germany’s noble families, are on display until Monday at Sotheby’s New York, the first stop on a multicity tour before their auction Nov. 6-7 in Geneva. “This is not a classic collection in the sense that one person or a…
Since Temple St. Clair founded her jewelry brand in 1986, there was one notable business milestone that she had not achieved: opening her own boutique. That is changing this week, with the opening of an 800-square-foot store on Washington Street in New York City’s meatpacking district. It stands at street level along a tranquil —…
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T Introduces: Linde Freya Tangelder’s Luminous New Collection for Cassina In Linde Freya Tangelder’s opinion, great design starts with demolition. “To pull something down or destroy a little bit of the past gives you freedom,” says the 35-year-old Dutch-born designer. Breaking apart her own work and starting over, deconstructing her models and rebuilding them, is,…
INSIDE A GILDED Rococo room on the Avenue Montaigne in Paris, candied fruits dangled from winterberry tree branches. Hand-sewn to the limbs with waxed twine by the food artist Imogen Kwok and her team, the sugar-confit-dipped pears, clementines and cherries resembled orbs of glass and were clipped off by guests with bonsai scissors for an…
As a child, Ms. Martin had never even considered jewelry as a potential career. She grew up in Bristol, a port city in southwest England, where she fell in love with art during her years at the local public school. Her mother, who was a teacher, and her father, a graphic designer, always encouraged her…
“Talk to me, Harry Winston. Tell me all about it,” Marilyn Monroe purred in “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” the song in the 1953 movie “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” that named one of New York’s pre-eminent jewelers. Now his son Ronald is telling all about it, too, in a new book describing his father’s rise…
The jewelry brand Annika Inez is based in Brooklyn, but its sleek aesthetic seems rooted in the sensibility of a city that is nearly 4,000 miles away: Malmo, Sweden, where the collection’s founder, Annika Inez Wikstrom, was born and raised. “Maybe it is the Scandinavian simplicity,” she said of her brand’s unfussy but assertive look.…
He recalled going to the show with his parents, who had a sales booth. “My sister and I used to sleep under the showcases when we were kids,” he said. “I grew up seeing and collecting rocks.” About 16 years ago, Mr. Bindra visited his father at the JCK gem trade show in Las Vegas…
Creating wire from precious metal is not unlike making fresh pasta: Using a hand-cranked machine called a draw bench, the maker repeatedly forces the metal through the holes in a steel plate until the desired thinness is achieved, a technique called wire drawing. In the past, such fine wire was used to produce gold cloth…