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...Al Cook, chief executive of De Beers, the world’s largest diamond miner by value, said Chinese demand had been dragged down by a fall in the number of new homeowners, a shift towards consumers buying gold...
...Special thanks to Hôtel des Grandes Écoles, Paris...
...Villaine of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti....
...In 1899, Cartier opened a shop on the prestigious rue de la Paix — still the Cartier flagship today....
...Circle, which runs the world’s second-biggest stablecoin, agreed to combine with a vehicle set up by veteran banker Bob Diamond in July 2021 when the digital assets market was in the midst of a bull run...
...palace in 1684 by André-Charles Boulle for €1.4mn (with fees, est €500,000-€1mn) and a Louis XVI guéridon, or side-table, by Adam Weisweiler (c1784) for €500,000 (with fees, est €150,000-€250,000)....
...It was feared that gold and diamonds might lose the enduring qualities that marketing strategies, such as De Beers’ “A Diamond Is Forever”, were built on. No longer....
...The Art as Jewelry . . ....
...Blue” diamond, which sold for an above-estimate HK$451mn....
...Cogsworth the major-domo came as a liveried grandfather clock, similar to one that André-Charles Boulle designed in the 1720s....
...The company plans to do for peridot what De Beers did for diamonds in terms of market positioning and education. Fuli’s peridots excel in colour and carat....
...Bäumer also has pieces in Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs, including two Camélia rings made for Chanel. Museums also discover jewellers by accident....
...Best Supporting Actor winner Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) paired a black crewneck and suit with a crisp Cartier diamond necklace....
...WHAT TO READCostume Jewelry for Haute Couture by Florence Müller. Jewelry by Chanel by Patrick Mauriès. WHERE TO SEEThe Jewellery Gallery at the V&A, London....
...Rahul Kadakia, international head of jewellery at Christie’s, cited the sale in late June of a 28.86-carat emerald-cut diamond as an example....
...EU enforcers have also pursued many non-American companies, such as Russian-gas supplier Gazprom, diamond producer De Beers and the nuclear divisions of the French company Areva, and Siemens, its German...
...He is referring to a sumptuously soft, shawl-collar cashmere and merino sweater with diamond and ropey patterns snaking through it....
...FrontWell Capital Partners has hired Aubrie De Sylva as vice-president of its deal originations team....
...De Beers, debeers.co.uk. Graff, graff.com. Hirsh, hirshlondon.com. Moussaieff, moussaieff-jewellers.com. Scott West Jewelry, scottwestdiamonds.com. Tiffany & Co, tiffany.co.uk....
...Art deco — which takes its name from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes fair held in Paris in 1925 — drew inspiration from the materials, techniques and cultures of...
...Patti Wong, chairman of Sotheby’s Asia and Sotheby’s Diamonds, is more than conscious that Hong Kong is a tough place to do business right now....
...Louis Vuitton’s diamond in the rough If we had to take a guess as to which of the luxury goods purveyors in Bernard Arnault’s empire had snapped up the world’s largest uncut diamond, we would probably choose...
...Headlining the Geneva auction will be a gold, enamel, turquoise and diamond-set automaton birdcage, complete with two singing birds, a built-in watch and a musical accompaniment....
...Diana Singer, president of the American Society of Jewelry Historians, argues that ever-bigger and flashier rings speak to athletes’ changing status in society....
...Since the announcement in May that De Beers, one of the world’s largest diamond mining companies, would be entering the lab-grown diamond market with a brand called Lightbox Jewelry, the industry has been...
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