Diamond Jewelry

Jewelry Designer Spotlight: Elizabeth Garvin Fine Jewelry

Elizabeth Garvin makes jewelry that plays with pure essence. She refines and extracts forms down to their simplest–almost mathematical–form. All hand-made in her New York City studio…

Jewelry Designer Spotlight: Walt Adler

I met Walt Adler Chefitz of Walt Adler in Las Vegas at the Couture Jewelry Show. His jewelry stopped me in my tracks (literally), but his story is even more fascinating…

Jewelry Designer Spotlight: Sevan Bicakci

Sevan Bicakci is an artist. He is a sculptor creating artwork through stone carving. It just happens to be of a scale that can be called jewelry…

Global Good: An Interview with Dorothée Gizenga of The Diamond Development Initiative

As the Editor of the Contemporary Jewelry Design Group’s website, I have the opportunity to profile some incredible jewelry designers as well as write about issues that are important to the artisan jewelry community…

Jewelry Designer Spotlight: A Conversation with Pamela Froman Fine Jewelry

Pamela Froman is a jewelry designer with her own unapologetically distinctive style. Besides the astonishing gemstones Pamela features, her jewelry is instantly recognizable for its textured finish, which she brands as…

#idazzled: New Body Jewelry by Colette Steckel

A trend to watch this Fall is the creative Art Deco interpretations that some jewelry designers are inventing. I’m calling it post-Deco. This new body jewelry by Colette Steckel exemplifies this trend, plus my current preoccupation for jewelry that wraps and drapes…

#idazzled: Sevan Bicakci Crocodile Ring

I was charmed and #idazzled by this crocodile ring that sidled up and wrapped neatly around my finger. The crocodile’s lower jaw was ever-so-slightly articulated, so it looked like he was about to speak something wise and wonderful…

Jewelry Designer Spotlight: Daria de Koning Fine Jewelry

While in New York City recently, I got to meet an artist I’ve admired on Twitter (the source of a lot of interesting and unexpected friendships), Daria de Koning. We met at her studio, a fun and functional space in the Tribeca neighborhood…

A Visit to LuxeIntelligence

While I was in New York City recently for jewelry market week and the Women’s Jewelry Association Gala, I took the opportunity to drop by LuxeIntelligence. LuxeIntelligence is a new endeavour from industry experts Andrea Hansen and Courtney Cohen

#idazzled: Colette Steckel Hand Jewelry

I’m starting a new hash tag on Instagram and Twitter for highlighting jewelry or people I am completely obsessed by. My inaugural #idazzled tag is for this monumentally gorgeous, insane shot of jewelry designer Colette…