Eight historic jewels were stolen from the Louvre on Sunday, October 19. Media outlets are scrambling to place a value...
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If you think building a career as a jewelry designer is challenging today, imagine what it was like 50 years...
Ananda Khalsa launched her career as a jewelry designer while living in Boulder, CO, where Todd Reed was an early...
Calder began making jewelry for his sister’s dolls at age 6, and produced 1,800 pieces in his lifetime, always carrying pliers and wire in his pockets. “I think best in wire,” he once said.
Edwardian jewelry is delicate and feminine with fine detail and classical motifs, often made with faceted gems and seed pearls. It's perfect for layering.
You may be surprised who pulls out the skull rings and cross pendants on weekends. Seems everybody wants to be a rock star. Just ask Gerard Marti, owner of Célèbrités galleries in Maui. His customers include Steven Tyler, Tommy Lee and Paris Hilton, as well as the co-founder of MySpace.
One of the finest independent craftsmen working in French Art Nouveau was actually Belgian. With his delicate florals and scary Medusas, Philippe Wolfers was a master of that era's mystical, sensuous jewelry.
Crafts shows are coming back! Some are still virtual this year but many are going live again for the open-air...
Viviana Langhoff is the talented designer behind Adornment+Theory, a cool little jewelry store in downtown Chicago that's getting lots of buzz lately - partly for the owner's advocacy for BIPOC design and culture. Join us for some shop talk.
With the ongoing pandemic, many jewelry events have postponed or moved online. Here's a listing of important upcoming events currently scheduled, to be updated.
If you're in the market for rubies, read this. There's an interloper among those red beauties - and it's been spotted at mainstream retailers, priced well above its true value.
Do you have post-divorce wedding or engagement rings burning a hole in your jewelry box? Join the club. About 43...
Ethically sourced, fair-mined, eco-friendly, sustainable – these are buzz words in jewelry now. So many jewelers are claiming that as...
Baiyang Qiu combines the precision of industrial design with a love of organic form to create her unique award-winning jewelry.
Carving and setting opal is like sculpting stained glass. Not only is the opal fragile and unpredictable, it dictates form. Making jewelry from it requires patience, flexibility, and a taste for living on the edge.