Results tagged “jewelry”

In honor of the 60th Anniversary of Peanuts the Osaka branch of Takashimaya, a Japanese department store, has these for sale

[photo copyright Getty Images ]
and yes, the stones (5+ct of diamond) are real, and the price is 1.5million Yen.

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• Somewhat dull reporting and images from London's recent Jewelry Week
• Much more exciting, finally a name to go with some pictures of uncut diamond jewelry I photographed in Paris, it is the work of Patrice Fabre. 
  

• A fantastic watch blog, entirely in Hungarian.  Even not able to read a single word, the movement section provided a fantastic collection of photos.
• From the New York Times, a review of a contemporary furniture exhibit at the V&A, including the fantastic "Robber Baron" wardrobe. More information and some close-up shots of the detailed, if a bit disturbed, bronze castings available from Moss (below, closed from Moss, open from the V&A website)

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• Julien Breton is a French calligrapher specializing in elaborate scripts including Arabesque French, in the sprint of 2009, he put together a show in Nantes of his work done by moving light during a long exposure photograph. (image via flickr)
  
• Pablo Picasso did some similar work in 1948, including his famous Running Man, for photographer Gjon Mill and Life magazine

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Not quite enough to be a trend, but some interesting undersea-themed jewelry:


Photo courtesy of Stephen Webster
Stephen Webster's diamond necklace from his Jules Verne Collection. [via]

Autore doesn't have their Ocenia collection on their website, but Europa Star's new jewelry publication, International Jewelry has several more pictures, including a snail broach, a starfish pendent, soft coral earrings and this over-wrought harlequin shrimp.

Finally some of the work of the Place Vendome-based Lorenz Bäumer.
"Hippocamp"

"Oursin"
And his fantastic Murene undersea broach

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There was some debate a few months back about fractalness in design, but I think this necklace, designed by Marc Newson, by Boucheron can't be argued, it's a Julia set in gold, diamonds and sapphires.

(Image Copyright Xavier Reboud 2008) [via]

Boucheron is also famous as one of the over-the-top jewelers in with stores in the Place Vendome, Paris. Their "Question Mark" necklace in the form of a bird is a representitive sample

It springs from a more sedate design from the end of the 19th century.

This is their 150th anniversary year, and as such they've been doing some interesting collaborations with other luxery brands, including a unique watch with jewel wheels by Richard Mille. Some of the pieces.

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Apparently there's a battle brewing and no matter who looses, we win [via]

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for a Mr. T. Pain, due entirely to this. his $410k chain set with close to 200ct of "diamonds".  It may be bafflingly ugly, but....

The Italian jewelry/watch/stuff house of Bulgari is celebrating its 125th birthday with all sorts of events including their first ever retrospective at  Il Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Between History and Eternity: 1884-2009.  Besides the namesake jewelry brand, the Bulgari group owns the Gerald Genta and Daniel Roth watchmaking brands, but I doubt these will be on display.  There's what appears to be a press release available online.  The Purists has a series of photos with a much better press release, including about a half dozen of the jewels proper. 
   Bulgari has a special section of their website devoted to the 125th Anniversary stuff(Flash Heavy, content light, it's only a few pages mostly devoted to a Save the Children benefit silver ring) as well as a timeline of designs.  For much more unusual depictions of their designs the photographer Guido Mocafico did a series of shoots for them.
   Also in celebration of the anniversary year they have released 4 new watches as the Sotirio Bulgari collection.  Press release for this collection is also on the Purists, as well as a collection of live shots of them. The four models are a Tourbillon QP, an Annual Calendar, a retrograde date and a simple time/date model in an officer-style case(much like the Patek 5015). 

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•  Todd Reed - Another jeweler turned up in the hunt for raw diamond jewelry.  He has an assortment of cufflinks that seem to work well with the material, but falls into a common trap, displaying cufflinks raw which doesn't reflect what they'd actually look like on a cuff!
• Glycine iPhone App - For all the people who say "I don't need a watch, I've got my cell-phone"

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Things that predate the log, but are worth mentioning

• Guido Mocafico - fantastic photographer of "things".  The fruit and jewelry series deserves special attention.  For those of a horological bent, his Movement is a lovely book of watch-movement photos.