Nov 13, 2012 | Designing Eye
Mosaic is the art of creating images and patterns using tesserae, small pieces of glass, stone or other colorful materials. An ancient decorative skill, mosaics have been assembled since the second half of the third millennium BC, in Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and...
Nov 5, 2012 | Colored Gems
When a strange, orangy-pinkish-reddish garnet was discovered in the mid-1960s, in the Umba Valley of Tanzania, locals and experienced gemologists didn’t know what to make of it. The odd stone was often tossed in with parcels of sought-after rhodolite garnets,...
Oct 22, 2012 | Colored Gems, Designing Eye
“Blackberry winter” – a farmer’s expression familiar to country folk – evokes a day in late spring when one wakes up to a cold snap. Though the chill seems to threaten the season’s delicate fruit blossoms and tender seedlings, they...
May 28, 2011 | Colored Gems, Designing Eye, Once Upon A Jewel
Proud of his bounty, a gem collector came to me with a wonderful assortment of rare Demantoid garnets he had been gathering. Demantoid garnets, primarily mined in Russia and Namibia, behave in light similarly to diamonds and appear fiery. They are rare, beautiful and...
Apr 28, 2011 | News & Press
For all time, humanity has had the impulse to wear jewelry. What’s it all about, anyway? The forms, motifs and styling of jewelry speak of culture, uniquely reflecting events, forces and moods of a given time, place,… and people. How are we alike and how are we...
Apr 25, 2011 | News & Press
Cheryl Cecchetto, Producer of the Academy Award’s Govenors’ Ball, wearing Cynthia Renee’s Spectrum award-winning Green Tourmaline and Palladium necklace in this clip from ABC’s 2011 Oscars Red Carpet coverage (0:50 in the clip below). [media id=7]...
Apr 25, 2011 | Designing Eye, Legacy Jewels, News & Press
Another First Place, this time for Custom Design Distinction the MJSA’s Vision Awards. MJSA (Manufacturing Jewelers & Suppliers of America) is a national association for jewelry makers and designers, announced the winners of its annual Vision Awards, which...
