When Carolyn Tyler left a fast-track advertising career and glamorous life in Santa Barbara to reinvent herself as a jewelry designer in Bali, she found her true home - in more ways than one.
Month: April 2010
René Lalique was born 150 years ago this month. Jewelry has been through some radical changes since Lalique abandoned it for art glass a century ago, yet many of the world's most famous designers still consider him the ultimate jewelry artist.
British designer Stephen Webster talks about the art jewelers who influenced him - from Lalique and Bovin to the mavericks of the sixties.
Kara Raymond struggled to find her signature style until someone suggested mokume gane: "What you end up with is never the same twice."
There’s a Japanese feel to Bonnie Blandford’s designs, with their gentle curves and bamboo-leaf patterns. The Chopstick earrings she often...
Few stones can match the legendary powers of a diamond, from betrothal to battlefield. A flawless diamond was considered the ultimate protector, said to ward off serpents and evil spirits, fire and flood, poison, illness and thieves.