The Ursine Jester

Where else but the Riviera can you swing $135,000 worth of sapphire and diamond earrings? Chopard unveils its latest bling at Cannes.

Tthe collector Sandra Hindman offers an original take on art history in the Merovingian, Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance periods, through her collection of 35 museum-quality rings.

Lorenz Bäumer and Philippe Tournaire are up-and-coming jewelers on the Place Vendôme. Winning a spot in the heartland of Parisian haute joaillerie takes designer smarts: keeping it takes stamina and sweat.

Eric Lopez, the creative spirit behind the jewelry and accessories brand Appartement à Louer, is mixing and matching, weaving and knitting together his coming winter collection.

This summer the Goldsmiths’ Company of London, one of the twelve Great Livery Companies of the City, is holding a landmark exhibition of contemporary jewelry. Following on from Creation I in 2004, which focused on leading silversmiths, Creation II brings together work by twelve of the most distinguished artist-jewelers working in Britain.

Wood went out of fashion as a jewelry material afteer the Russian revolution, but now it is making a comeback.

Janna Syvanoja became a jeweler almost by accident. A graduate in interior design, the 28-year-old Finnish artist was finishing a Masters degree at the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki, when, out of boredom, she started making jewlery pieces out of shredded paper and wire, and found that the style caught on.

Anjuna is famous for her graffiti, hip-hop jewelry pieces.

Officials say Teresa Tambunting, who worked at Jacmel Jewelry for 28 years, took hundreds of pounds of merchandise, one piece at a time, in her purse.

Cartier marks its United States centennial, gathering baubles commissioned over the last century by the celebrated, the rich and the swell.

A jeweler faces an uncertain future as the Port Authority plans to build a reconfigured transit entrance where his store now stands.

A new jewelry store opened on a deluxe strip of Madison Avenue at a time often thought to be unkind to the display of luxury.

After President Hugo Chávez declared that clocks in Venezuela would be moved back by 30 minutes, the prestige brands that make world timers have opted for a range of substitutes.

A concerned mother takes up jewelry making as a hobby to ease her anxieties over the economy.

Who said understated jewelry was cool? Go ahead. Put on every ring you own.

In Chicago, a newfound vitality is fueling a boomlet in style and design.

A guide to buying quality gemstones, one of the city’s best-known commodities, at the Jade Market in the Kowloon area.

The anthropologist jeweler Pippa Small seeks not just to make a profit from fashion but also to right some historical imbalances.

The work of the Amsterdam-based designer Ted Noten comes with a manifesto: “Jewelry should be famously curious.” His pieces a brooch cast from chewed gum, shattered porcelain cups hanging from a gold chain are not your standard charm bracelet. A few years ago, when Noten, a former psychiatric nurse, was invited to create a piece with pearls for an exhibition, he dressed a dead mouse in pearls and encased it in an acrylic pendant. He recently expanded into handbags with gold-plated guns, pills...

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