Visits: 47 Mio Harutaka’s pieces include bunnies, daisies and a piano keyboard ring in diamonds and onyx. Jeweled citrus slices, strawberries, snails and a Pegasus-winged horse are just a few of the whimsical pieces by the Japanese jewelry designer Mio …
How More Sanctions on Russian Diamonds Could Affect the Global Market
Visits: 42 The Group of 7 and the European Union are expected to issue new rules in an effort to slow the flow of revenue into the Kremlin’s war chest. Eighteen months have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine, sending shock …
Archives Help Shape the Jewelry Creations of Today
Visits: 35 New collections at Chaumet and Buccellati were inspired by those in the past. For two heritage jewelry houses, inspirations from the past are back in modernized versions at the high jewelry presentations this week in Paris. For Benoît …
Mourning Jewelry Leaves the Victorian Era Behind
Visits: 46 Lab-grown diamonds made with cremation ashes are just one way people are honoring their loved ones. When Alyx Carson’s father was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020, she left her nursing job in Austin, Texas, and flew to …
For Queer Couples, Engagement Rings With Subversive Stones
Visits: 30 As one jeweler put it, many of her L.G.B.T.Q. clients want “the opposite of what a diamond is supposed to stand for.” Sapphires, opals and other nontraditional stones have in turn grown more coveted. Salt-and-pepper diamonds used to …
Smithsonian Closed, Hope Diamond Awaits Its Synthetic Twin
Visits: 36 In the midst of the pandemic, diamonds (at least newly mined ones) may have lost their luster. But in the studio of his New York apartment, John Hatleberg is betting it will soon be back. For months, he …