Odeon Collection

How to Start a Jewelry Collection

A practical guide to building a fine jewelry collection — starting with heirlooms, adding a first Victorian piece, and learning the classics every collection benefits from.

Antique Diamonds Explained

Why antique diamonds are trending again — the real history behind old mine and old European cuts, the open culet, and why these stones were made for candlelight.

Van Cleef & Arpels and the Art of Transformability

Van Cleef & Arpels spent a century engineering jewels that could become several — the Zip, the Passe-Partout, and the sautoirs of the 1970s among them.

JAR

There is no sign on the door at 7 Place Vendôme, and that has always been the point. Joel Arthur Rosenthal built the most private, most exclusive name in jewelry — the true connoisseur's jeweler.

David Webb

He said women were tired of jewelry that looked like jewelry — then made zebra rings and gold frogs that Elizabeth Taylor couldn't resist

Belle Epoque

Platinum was once too hard to shape into anything delicate — until Cartier's engineers studied the springs of railway sleeping cars and found their answer. What followed was a twenty-year run of di...