I just saw a beautiful pair of Art Deco 18K Jade, Onyx and Diamond earrings in a Sarasota, Florida jewelry store. I couldn’t take a photo of the earrings in the shop and they didn’t have an image of the earrings on their website, but I searched online and found a similar design – seen [...]
On a walk through St. Petersburg, Florida, we stopped in the original Vinoy Park Hotel built in 1925. Much of the original building is still intact including hand painted ceiling beams over the lobby entrance. Also in the lobby is an exclusive jewelry shop called Ami Jewelers. There were some beautiful amethyst and Australian opal [...]
We’ve mentioned black gemstones in numerous other posts. I want to add a new one to the list – Hawaiian Black Coral. In local Hawaiian language it is called, ‘ēkaha kū moana.
Black coral (Antipatharia) is a group of deep water, tree-like corals related to sea anemones. Black coral was originally found in Hawaii in 1958 [...]
November 2009
Two magazine covers.
Two A-list Hollywood actresses.
Similar Yellow Gold Layered Necklaces
V-Report: Insanely Stainless Steel
V-Reporter: Esan Nishaburi
Bangkok, Thailand
15 October 2009
Stainless steel is a new and exciting material used in modern jewelry but it hasn’t always been so stainless.
Dating back to 12th century BC, iron was used by humans for creating many tools, and as the knowledge of metallurgy progressed, man overcame the major disadvantage of [...]
In an earlier post we talked about black stones as a jewelry trend and we also featured gold vermeil and black spinel hoop earrings by Thai Jewelry artist Khun Boom as seen on NOVICA.
Let’s look at how well Yellow Gold and Black stones (or material) go together. Leading high end French jeweler Van Cleef & [...]
Thai jewelry creator, Warutti – The Exclusive Jewelry featured in this month’s Harper’s Bazaar Thailand edition.
See above: Ivory Bangle with Ruby, Emerald & Fancy Gemstones
- Uniquely designed jewelry
- One of a kind jewelry, precious & semi precious gemstones
- All individually handmade
- Wholesales & retail
Warutti, The Exclusive Jewelry
Room No.321, 3rd Floor
The Peninsula Plaza Rajdamri Road
10330 Pathumwan, [...]
Gold Vermeil is a more expensive version of ‘gold-plated’ jewelry. Gold vermeil jewelry has a sterling silver base that is plated or coated with gold. For jewelry to qualify as gold vermeil it must meet certain requirements:
- The base must be pure sterling silver
- It must only have the gold layer applied over the silver, [...]
It’s going to be a dark winter – well maybe not in sunny Thailand, but with the Financial Crisis still hanging on, and only small and slow signs of recovery in some markets, we are seeing black, grey and brown colors on the fashion runways and already covering the shelves in local Thai clothing stores. [...]
Van Cleef & Arpels – Hawaii collection reinvents the Garden of Eden as a tropical paradise with voluminous exotic flowers, fashioned in gold with diamonds, sapphires and colored stones. A colorful 50s feel mixes warm and cool tones with necklaces that become earclips and rings.