Auctions
Pauline Karpidas’s Jewels Head to Sotheby’s With a $10 Million Estimate
Sotheby’s will offer 70 jewels from Pauline Karpidas’s collection on December 8. JAR, Belperron and Cartier reveal an art collector’s distinctive eye.
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Jewellery
Design stories, stones and metals, and guides to choosing and caring.
The Hope Diamond’s Most Powerful Illusion Was Its Curse
A real blue diamond became the centre of an unreliable legend. Its journey from private spectacle to a museum collection reveals how stories can create atten...
The Necklace Marie Antoinette Never Wore
A spectacular fraud turned a rejected jewel into a political weapon. The diamond-necklace affair reveals what happens when a luxury transaction borrows autho...
Natural or Laboratory-Grown? Ask What You Want From a Diamond
Origin, identification and the buying conversation: understanding the distinction without confusing laboratory-grown diamonds with imitations.