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...The gallery will open a new headquarters in Wan Chai in September....
...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....
...This month designer Ana Khouri presented about 50 pieces, ranging from $10,000 to $2m, at a selling exhibition at Phillips’ New York galleries....
...Under the leadership of the charismatic American Bob Diamond, Barclays’ investment bank fired up the earnings of the entire group....
...Cross River diamond bracelet by David Webb (1965) Ms Kaplan’s bracelet caught her eye at the Macklowe Gallery in New York thanks in part to its mix of circular, rectangular and marquise cut diamonds....
...“The presale exhibition in New York attracted such unprecedented large crowds that the queue to get into our galleries on 72nd street was a mile long,” he recalls....
...Alia’s are more delicate and transformable; pieces include a solitaire diamond ring with interchangeable shells....
...The new gallery will also allow Bergdorf's to host high-jewellery trunk shows from leading independent designers, such as Michelle Ong....
...S2 galleries in Europe and the US....
...Geneva-based Suzanne Syz, one of 47 first-time exhibitors, regularly shows her work in art galleries....
...However, the group is reliant on a few individuals with enormous fortunes and their desire for diamond jewellery....
...Next month, Shizaru, Mayfair’s fashionable art gallery, hosts Art Rocks, an exhibit of contemporary jewels chosen by Joanna Hardy....
...Armin Gramer, who cuts a fine figure in sequinned kilt and diamond-studded socks, also gives a high-risk performance....
...Transparency What with the hoo-ha surrounding Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond’s salary, and what Galleon Group co-founder Raj Rajaratnam did or did not know when he made certain trades, it’s little...
...The exhibition also features a series of diamond cabinets and butterflies in layers of metallic paint....
...It pairs images of jewellery house Hemmerle’s new vegetable-inspired brooches – think radishes rendered in pink diamonds – with relevant recipes by chef and food writer Tamasin Day Lewis....
...… Diamond diggers Much chewing of the cud at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town about the next chief of De Beers....
...Last month, White Cube, the celebrated contemporary art gallery, sold a gilded cabinet of diamonds, “Sadness”, by Hirst for £2.4m in Abu Dhabi. The buyer?...
...Name the opera house. 5 Whose work is being painted on a London gallery wall by these assistants?...
...Other Russian companies that could turn to the LSE include Alrosa, the diamond monopoly, and Gazprom bank, the state-owned bank....
...tables, plaques and, the star of the show, a shimmering chandelier encrusted with 200 carats of diamonds worth $2.8m....
...Featuring insight from John Thain, Bob Diamond, Rodgin Cohen, David Nason, Bryan Marsal and Pete Peterson....
...Galleries don’t like that and artists don’t like it.”...
...In the past the company has owned, among other stones, the Hope diamond – now the centrepiece of the Harry Winston Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution – the Taylor-Burton diamond (which uncut weighted...
...Ingrid Donat at a new gallery in Mayfair’s Albemarle Street....
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