Color rules: jewelry Designers redefine luxury with a bold new palette of desire.
A natural rainbow of multi-color diamonds (147.6 cts.) forms a one-of-a-kind collar, $268,000. Matching diamond dome ring (19.63 cts.), $28,000, Diamond Vault. PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARY MCCULLEY Necklace of rose-cut fancy yellow diamonds (13.67 cts.) and modern-cut white diamonds (11.62 cts.). Price upon request, Tilden Ross....

Diamonds: rings on your fingers or blood on your hands? "Diamonds are forever," so the slogan goes, whetting the appetite for the ultimate purchase. But are they rings on our fingers or blood on your hands? The makers of the new film, Blood Diamond, think it is the latter, reports Nick Hordern, the veteran British journalist/broadcaster.
Is Blood Diamond a gem of a film--or a critical flashpoint for the jewellery industry's provenance record? Hollywood seems on a run of setting movies in Africa with a moral message that clobbers multinational corporations. For example, the blockbuster The Constant Gardener was a polemic against avaricious pharmaceutical moguls;...

Engagement rings: evolution or revolution?
Being a fourth generation jeweler and in this business for over 30 years, I've witnessed many engagement ring purchases. And, as every jeweler knows, we don't just sell an engagement ring. We sell a future. But, today, projecting styles and the particular assortment needed in the engagement...

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Textus: de la tradition latine a l'esthetique du roman medieval.
Romaine Wolf-Bonvin, Textus: de la tradition latine a l'esthetique du roman medieval. `Le Bel Inconnu', `Amadas et Ydoine' (Paris: Honore Champion, 1988). 379 pp. ISBN 2-85203-647-9. F. Fr. 330.00. In this study, with an afterword by Charles Mela, Romaine Wolf-Bonvin argues that in the thirteenth century the...

Brazil's Brightest Jewels.
IN 1939, ON THE EVE of World War II, a penniless German Jew named Hans Stern arrived in Brazil with his parents, and with no clue as to how he'd make a living. Six years later, as the war was winding down, the enterprising refugee inaugurated a jewelry business...

The Smithsonian's Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals.
This quite new mineral and gem gallery (opened September 1997) merits many compliments. Before proceeding with those, however, an admission is in order, in the interests of full disclosure. The reader must be told that I have long been associated with the Smithsonian and was, in fact, curator-in-charge of...

Clementina Duarte: architect of gems.
Precise forms, bold contours a distinctive personal style. Clementina Duarte's jewels, inspired by Brazil's baroque and modern architecture and geometric or floral patterns, are outstanding in design, finish and quality, creating for the artist an unmistakable place in the realm of contemporary jewelry. Brazil's architecture achieved its own distinctive...

THE green MOVEMENT.
THE green MOVEMENT EDITOR: BETH BERNSTEIN As style-conscious and eco-conscious blend, green design grows in the freshest jewelry collections. With more attention being paid to the preservation of our planet as well as the trend toward organic forms and materials in jewelry and...

Bold and beautiful jewelry.
Byline: CANDY M. VENERACION Big, bold, and bling -- these are three key trends to look out for in fashion accessories this year. Even before fashion capitals revealed their jewelry forecast for 2007, noted accessories designer Arnel Papa was already two steps ahead. ...