One of the world’s foremost experts in important jewels, Lisa Hubbard directs North and South American jewelry operations for Sotheby’s, the venerable auction house. Since Lisa and I both admire vintage Tony Duquette bijoux and Tony Duquette jewels that are presently designed by Hutton Wilkinson, I decided to ask her a few questions about why…
I founded BIJOUXReview.com to showcase high luxury jewels, also known as haute luxe jewelry, and to redefine this important realm for my audience of high net worth individuals and jewelry lovers. Thus, BIJOUXReview.com reports on designers, global brands, boutiques, estate jewelers and auctioneers who create, buy and/or sell the best in global high luxury jewels.…
The majority of jewelry that I see marketed as “luxury” strikes me as fake luxury jewelry. Let’s call it fluxury. Yes, you read that correctly. FLUXURY. To begin with, many global brands, year after year, produce variations on designs that we have all seen before. Where’s the luxury in that, I ask you? Season after season,…
I founded BIJOUXReview.com to showcase high luxury jewels, also known as haute luxe jewelry, and to redefine this important realm for my audience of high net worth individuals and jewelry lovers. Thus, BIJOUXReview.com reports on designers, global brands, boutiques, estate jewelers and auctioneers who create, buy and/or sell the best in global high luxury jewels.…
New York-based Temple St. Clair is that rare jewelry designer whose vision is informed as much by history and legend as it is inspired by her imagination. St. Clair’s first high luxury jewelry collection premiered in 2015. Titled Mythical Creatures From the Golden Menagerie, this epic suite embodies super-detailed and design-driven jewels that shimmer…
CARTIER ROYAL: High Jewelry and Precious Objects by François Chaille Publisher: Rizzoli Cartier Royal is a large format book featuring 175 exceptional Cartier high jewelry and precious objects previously exhibited at 2014’s Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris. If you couldn’t attend this international high jewelry event, this volume more than compensates for missing out.…
Loulou de la Falaise: The Glamorous Romantic by Ariel de Ravenel and Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni (Rizzoli) Editor: Ariel de Ravenel Writer: Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni Art Director: Alexandre Wolkoff Loulou de la Falaise: The Glamorous Romantic celebrates the creations of Anglo-French jewelry, accessories and clothing designer Loulou de la Falaise. Published in October, 2014, the book is insightfully…
Bijouxreview.com is high on Beladora.com and its sister site, B2. Two of the world’s most discerning, haute luxe estate jewelry sites, Beladora and B2 are favorites of women with means, A-list stylists; the stars they shop for, and of course, jewelry collectors. Along with offering superb customer service, Beladora and B2 both feature fantastic selections of…
Imagine wearing a gemstone ring that alerts you to incoming notifications by vibrating in four different patterns– and lighting up in five lovely colors! Welcome to the world of Ringly (www.ringly.com), a pioneering techno-jewel that adorns while liberating you from your phone. (Typically, Ringly will work about 20-30 feet from your cell.) A clever little microchip beneath Ringly’s stone connects…
Global fashion tastemaker Anna Dello Russo (www.annadellorusso.com) has long maintained that fashion and jewelry transcend mere ornamentation to serve as powerfully persuasive, symbolic communication. Bijoux Review is thrilled to report that archaeological research indicates bead-making kickstarted symbolic thinking in humans. Yes, you read that correctly. Bead-making, perhaps the world’s most ancient jewelry fabrication technique, kickstarted a critically important phase in the evolution of…