Section
Design stories, stones and metals, and guides to choosing and caring.
Craftsmanship
A golden surface seems like an obvious improvement—until the evidence says otherwise. Colombia’s Nahuange metalwork challenges the assumption that technical innovation must serve our own idea of luxury.
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...
Cultured pearls challenged an entire economic system. The Gulf’s interwar upheaval shows why protecting a product’s reputation is not the same as protecting ...
In Prussia’s 1813 war effort, jewellery became evidence of what its wearer had surrendered. Berlin iron shows how a cheap material can carry an expensive mea...
A spectacular fraud turned a rejected jewel into a political weapon. The diamond-necklace affair reveals what happens when a luxury transaction borrows autho...
In occupied Copenhagen, two Nobel medals survived because their maker’s art was undone. The gold’s disappearance exposes a remarkable distinction between a m...
We use cookies to measure visits to the magazine and improve what we publish. Your choice is saved and you can change it at any time.
