Speaker: Olivier Bachet Introduction Olivier Bachet has deep knowledge of Cartier. During a fascinating talk held during the November edition of GemGenève, he spoke about the influence that Fabergé had on various jewellery designers – most notably, Cartier. Various elements link Fabergé and Cartier between the end of ...
Speakers: Fondation Fabergé – Dr. Bernard Ivaldi, Alexandra Blin Kourbatoff The art of enamel in Russia is intricately tied to the ancient cultural traditions of the Byzantine Empire, which spread to the territory of Egypt, France, and Italy, becoming the foundation of the technical traditions of enamel art in ...
Speaker: Amanda Triossi This talk will introduce the readers to the stylistic development of the necklace – from its origins to recent times. Through this overview the readers will not only appreciate the extraordinary stylistic development of the necklace, which is linked largely to the changes of fashion, but ...
Speakers: Richa Goyal Sikri, Dharmendra Tank, David Nassi, David Bennett, Tony Brooke Long read When it comes to diamonds, unless you are tracking a diamond from mine to market, it’s impossible to tell where it’s from. Thanks to geological events that occurred millions of years ago, the characteristics of ...
Lecture by Vivienne Becker, jewellery historian and author – Long Read Modernism is a hundred years old, but it is still very much alive and is driving jewellery into a whole new mood of avant-garde conceptual, abstract sophistication. There are distinct parallels between the 1920s and the 2020s, between ...
A panel led by Vivienne Becker, in which Amanda Triossi, Vanessa Cron, and Juliet de la Rochefoucauld discuss jewellery and its value through time. Writing about jewellery and doing it by looking back in time is quite a recent activity. Antique jewellery did not use to be part of ...
Image caption: White gold earrings by VAK Fine Jewels featuring vivid green Colombian emeralds certified insignificant oil, with rose-cut diamonds. Since time immemorial, emeralds have captured our imagination like no other gemstone. Whether their historical association to the exotic Cleopatra, the belief of native Colombians in their divinity or the ...
Image: Shirley Temple Blue Bird diamond, Windsor Jewelers Provenance can enhance the value of extraordinary jewels enabling the owner to possess a unique piece of history or to prize an exceptionally rare origin. At the coming edition of GemGenève (May 9-12, 2019) some pieces of jewellery and gemstones have an ...
“Cameos are my first love,” says Ida Faerber, who works alongside her father Thomas, at the Faerber Collection, Geneva. “They were my first discovery in the world of jewellery. I remember thinking how extraordinary it was to be able to tell a story out of stone, how amazing to create ...
