“Geneva is just a natural step,” said Stephen Brooks, the chief executive of Phillips auction house, best known for buying and selling art and design. “We’re signaling to the marketplace that we want to be significant in this space.” On Nov. 6, Phillips has scheduled the first of what it said will be twice-yearly jewelry…
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For Jenny Klatt and Stephanie Wynne Lalin, the founders and designers of the New York-based fine jewelry brand Jemma Wynne, inspiration has always come from their surroundings. And for their latest collection, that turned out to be an escalator. They didn’t have a “eureka!” moment on one, though. “We thought,” Ms. Lalin said, “that it…
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Experimental goldsmith techniques and creative design produced from 1965 to 1985 are to be showcased this fall when Chaumet opens “Un Âge d’Or” (“A Golden Age”), an exhibition in the salons above the jeweler’s Place Vendôme boutique in Paris. “The 1970s was a very interesting era in jewelry, and specifically for Chaumet,” said Vanessa Cron,…
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About one in four adults in the United States develop symptoms of insomnia each year. In most cases, these are short-lived, caused by things like stress or illness. But one in 10 adults are estimated to have chronic insomnia, which means difficulty falling or staying asleep at least three times a week for three months…
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The author and psychologist Lisa Damour has become somewhat of a celebrity among many parents of teenagers. “I’ve been Damour-alizing myself big time for about a month now,” said Rebecca Gold, a mother of three in Great Barrington, Mass. “I love her so much that I just created a verb in her honor.” Ms. Gold,…
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The revived brand presented its first pieces publicly in January, during Couture Week, at its Rue St.-Honoré headquarters. The designs by Ms. de Laage, in the style of Rouvenat, included the Bolt Orissa pendant in 18-karat yellow gold with diamonds and red spinels and a tassel made with rubies from the Orissa mine in India,…
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Visitors who missed the blockbuster Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum here earlier this year will still be able to spot plenty of pearls among the half-dozen of his paintings still on display in the museum’s Gallery of Honor through Oct. 10. But for anyone interested in learning about diamonds, a better bet is just a…
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Dan Dower wants to change our attitude toward bees. “Part of the message is making people trust bees,” said Mr. Dower, who is one half of the jewelry brand Dower & Hall. “Be friendly towards bees. See them as friends, not as just things that sting.” This spring the brand introduced a Queen Bee necklace,…
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Hi! I’m still here, Sam’s still on vacation, let’s talk about what to cook this week. Sometimes, you put a recipe out into the universe and genuinely wonder: Will anyone care? It’s the scary, vulnerable side of developing recipes, and I felt it when I first published this recipe for homemade Hamburger Helper (above) in…
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A century and a half later, by which time the Riviera had ceased serving as an “outdoor hospital” and become a playground of the rich, another high-stakes theft took place at a hotel restaurant in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Its owner was known to accept paintings in lieu of payment — “My kind of hotel,” Picasso joked. In…
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