Journal

Buccellati is for the woman who wants to look not merely wealthy, but as though she comes from a family with an exceptional jewelry box. Its gold is rarely polished…

Chaumet is for the woman who is drawn to the dynastic version of French luxury. Its jewelry carries echoes of coronations, imperial bees, tiaras, ears of wheat, and laurel branches.…

Boucheron is for the woman who finds “timeless classics” alone a little too predictable. It is the oldest jewelry house established on Place Vendôme, yet it behaves more like a…

Graff is a jewelry house for people who are not easily impressed by something merely because it is expensive. Here, the real conversation is with natural phenomena: enormous colorless diamonds,…

Harry Winston is a name for occasions when the words “a large diamond” are spoken without embarrassment — and without anyone reaching for a calculator. There are very few pieces…

Tiffany & Co. is the American dream in a blue box. The house is not rooted in a royal court or an old aristocratic dynasty. Its power grew out of…

Bvlgari is jewelry with a distinctly Roman temperament. It has little interest in appearing fragile or disappearing into the background. The house embraces bold proportions, yellow gold, saturated gemstones, and…

Van Cleef & Arpels is luxury that prefers to enchant rather than overpower. If Cartier speaks the language of authority and architecture, Van Cleef & Arpels turns instead to luck,…

Cartier is one of the rare houses whose name sounds equally natural in a palace, at a business breakfast, or in a fashionable restaurant. The red box is often recognized…