The Big Three: Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald
Before diamonds ruled, colour ruled. Three gems have been prized above almost all others for millennia — and two of them are, astonishingly, the very same mineral.
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The Jazz Age in Silver: How Art Deco Reached Everyone
The 1920s gave jewellery a sharp new language of geometry and speed. The grandest pieces were platinum and diamond — but the look belonged to everyone, and it reached them in silver.
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The Pearl: When the Sea Outshone the Diamond
For most of history the most precious jewel on earth wasn’t mined — it was fished. A single pearl could outvalue a diamond, until one man learned to grow them.
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The Serpent Ring: Jewellery’s Oldest Love Story
Feared everywhere else, the snake became jewellery’s most enduring emblem of eternal love — from the crown of a pharaoh to the finger of a queen.
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Twelve Stones, Twelve Months: The Story of Birthstones
Your birthstone is older than the calendar it hangs on. It began on a priest’s breastplate, passed through the zodiac, and was fixed into its modern form in a single meeting in 1912.
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The Secret Language of Flowers
In an age too polite to speak plainly, the Victorians let flowers do the talking. A single posy could say what a lady never could — remember me, I love you, forgive me.
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Why a Diamond? The Making of a Promise
The diamond engagement ring is younger than the light bulb. Its story runs from a Habsburg archduke to four words written late one night in Philadelphia.
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The Vein of Love: Why the Fourth Finger?
Slip a ring onto the fourth finger and you are following a two-thousand-year-old piece of anatomy — one that is entirely mistaken, and lovely anyway.
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For Herself: The Quiet Rise of the Self-Bought Diamond
Once, a woman waited to be given a diamond. Increasingly, she buys her own. The self-purchased diamond is one of the quietest revolutions in modern jewellery. It marks nothing borrowed and no one’s permission — a promotion, a birthday, a hard year survived, or simply the decision that she is worth it. It is confidence…
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The Bride: A Ring Meant to Outlast the Wedding
The wedding lasts a day. The ring lasts the rest of it. Which is why the smartest bridal choice is rarely the trendiest one. Trends date; a well-cut diamond in a clean setting does not. A round brilliant, an elegant oval, a timeless solitaire — these are the pieces still admired fifty years on, long…
