06 September 2017
The Place Vendôme companies have abandoned the proceedings for the second year running – to the delight of various art gallery owners and dealers, who viewed their success and the phenomenal attention drawn by their lavish stands with a jaundiced eye. Some lesser-known independent foreigners have now filled the gap: Boghossian, Moussaieff and India’s Nirav Modi, all former dealers in diamonds or precious stones, and the designers Anna Hu from Taiwan and the UK’s Glenn Spiro. Will French jewelers be returning next year, as the Biennale hopes? Watch this space…
Beyond aesthetics, Christopher Esber believes in the positive virtues that certain crystals worn directly on the skin possess.
Botter, the Dutch creative duo made up of Lisi Herrebrugh and Rushemy Botter have turned colorful little cars into jewelry.
In this issue we offer a non-exhaustive overview of pieces heralding these new jewelry values.
On “Wing Shop” the new e-shop of Noor Fares, you can entirely customize the “Fly Me to the Moon” earrings.
The positive values initiated by Léon Rouvenat, almost two centuries on, are modernized.
During the conference organized by the jeweler L’Or du Monde (pioneers in the use of recycled gold), the Systext association painted an apocalyptic picture...