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 [...]
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.