If you think building a career as a jewelry designer is challenging today, imagine what it was like 50 years... Read More
A ring containing a portrait of Dora Maar made for her by Pablo Picasso in the 1930s is expected to fetch half a million at Sotheby's this month. That's a lot more than it sold for at the 1998 estate sale in Paris following Maar's death. No one knew Picasso had made jewelry by hand but the news was overshadowed by those paintings. Read More
A renown blue diamond is up for sale – the 12.03ct Blue Moon, internally flawless and fancy vivid blue. Sotheby's expects it will bring $55 million. Here's why. Read More
As yet another eye-popping jewel by the Bronx-born designer known as "JAR of Paris" goes on the block next month, a few observations of what a designer can achieve by going against convention when it comes to gemstones. Read More
Christie’s is claiming no less than a dozen world records for the December 13, 2011, auction, known officially as The... Read More
Five years after JAR Jewels opened at the Met, the costume jewelry he designed for its shop is appearing at auction, along with the Somerset florals. If you sprang for those $2,000 baubles, here's how your investment panned out. Read More
Marianne Ostier was the innovative designer behind Ostier, Inc., a Manhattan jewelry firm she ran with her husband, an Austrian court jeweler, after they emigrated in 1938. Ostier was known for organic textures and designs that reflect her training as an artist and sculptor. Read More
Who says a bespoke jewelry designer can’t be a rebel? Joel Arthur Rosenthal is proof that you can be both... Read More
As Christie’s prepares to sell the largest private collection of JAR jewels ever offered at auction – at Geneva’s Four... Read More
Christie’s sale of Elizabeth Taylor’s famous jewels was anticipated to be the most important single-owner jewelry sale in a decade,... Read More
Retro was a bold style of jewelry that took off during WWII, when women became spies and factory workers and tough, sassy broads took over the big screen. Here's what to look for and how to wear it today. Read More
Once upon a time, a princess married a prince. Here's the tragic love story behind the emerald necklace expected to fetch up to $2.5mil next month - not between bride and groom, but Hélène d'Orléans and the prince she left behind. Read More
As some of you may have gathered by now, trying on jewels at auction previews is a hobby of mine.... Read More
Eighty lots of Bakelite and Lucite jewelry from a private collection will be auctioned off during the Period Art &... Read More
Rahul Kadakia met Elizabeth Taylor at an auction in Cannes in 1999. “I was a young boy and here was... Read More