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...Designer-jeweller Lily Gabriella paves the rose-gold curves of her signature Spira ring with emeralds, the architectural yet sensual contours emphasising the emerald’s hypnotic intensity....
...Even those tying the knot are steering clear of diamonds. Bobo Liang is one of many Chinese women who plan to marry but intend to forgo a diamond engagement ring amid widespread economic gloom....
...The ring was set with a diamond and sapphire, both pear-shaped, nestling close to each other....
...Jessica McCormack’s Hex collection and Space Odyssey ring, with its hexagonal step-cut diamond, gently curve around the finger; while the malleable 24ct gold of Solange Azagury-Partridge’s Shapeshifter Hexagon...
...For the Puffball collection, the casting skin of the grey-gold, baubled bracelets, bangles, rings and earrings is left raw, in contrast to the network of pitted voids with highly polished rims....
...The Romans made laurel wreaths from gold and gave them to gladiators, blood mingling with metal. The Emperor of China had his servants craft them from pith paper. The Italians liked silkworm shells....
...Between a dozen of us we unearth a 14th-century ring with a blue stone set in it, a gilded Saxon buckle, assorted Roman coins, ornate medieval bronze brooches, buckles and horse ornaments, old musket balls...
...Engelbert’s Galaxy first made to order collection, featuring $250,000 lab-grown diamond necklaces and $20,000 white gold rings with a large diamond in the centre, debuted in the autumn....
...The exact system for tracking stones has not been made clear....
...An object I would never part with is my ring, which I always wear to replace the beautiful solitaire I lost three years after our wedding....
...It is already dying at the start and by scene three is fixed to a piston as part of the extraction of industrial quantities of gold. Climate change has taken centre stage....
...Bulgari has gone all out, or do I mean all in, with a men’s ring featuring a silver Thracian coin in a gold mount set with about 9 carats of diamonds....
...with a 19.77-carat emerald Cartier ring)....
...Friday Russia: presidential election begins, with voting continuing until Sunday UK: Cheltenham Gold Cup, the highlight of the four-day Cheltenham Festival horse race meeting....
...More than 500 years after the church was completed in 1491, during a late-medieval gold rush, I arrive in January with my brother, Patrick, to find a community grappling with the vagaries of modern mountain...
...Turns out there’s a chichi new version with woven seats by rattan gurus Bonacina. Let’s be quite clear, no one is going to buy me this car....
...The objects I would never part with are the three Compasso d’Oro (Golden Compass) awards left to me by my father. It’s the most important prize in the design world in Italy....
...to use for pieces such as reversible rings....
...Rings in white gold are set with a single fancy vivid-yellow diamond or with round pink and Padparadscha sapphires and diamonds....
...A blue topaz ring with 14-carat yellow gold setting and sterling silver band costs £350, compared with £5,750 for a 18-carat ring with blue/green tourmaline....
...A statement-making, ruby and diamond, bib-style Tweed Royal jewel comes topped with a yellow gold chain and is made up of a necklace, brooch and ring, and can be worn in seven different ways....
...On one bracelet, exceptional jadeite cabochons are alternated with old-mine cut diamonds, while in a more traditional style, Moussaieff also offers a set of three rare child’s jade bangles....
...He is working towards broadening the range of materials he works with, exploring the use of precious stones and gold to add fine jewellery pieces to his production....
...Yet despite the crowds and that overblown billing, the money-shot prospect is a stone-cold stunner....
...Parker won the gold award last year for her gouache of a pendant and earrings. So impressed was Fuli Gemstones with her Amulet collection that it had the pieces made, exhibiting them at GemGenève....
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