It’s time once again for our monthly excuse to explore some gorgeous art deco gems: today? We’ve got vintage tourmaline jewelry to admire! Opal is also an October birthstone, and we’ll feature some beauties in the future, but lucky October-ites also get to claim the many-hued tourmaline and that’s our focus today. Let’s start off …
As you know, we’re deeply, powerfully vintage-glamour-obsessed around these parts; we’ll use any excuse to ooh and ahh over beautiful gems and jewels. This month’s excuse? Well, it’s this month! (July) which means it’s time to celebrate ruby art deco jewelry! Shouldn’t be hard to do, with stunners like these… Um, yes, I will take …
In today’s luminous edition of “I Want That, Give It To Me Now”… this stunning art deco ruby ring from French jewelry house Mauboussin. Yup. I want this, give it to me now. According to the listing at Bonham’s, the sale included a certificate of authenticity from Mauboussin, dating the ring June 11, 1924. Not …
You know when you see a piece of jewelry, and you love it, and you want it, and you discover it costs more than you would spend on almost anything, including a car or major surgery and there is a mix of satisfaction (“I have good taste! I know a good thing when I see …
One of the downsides to starting this site is that I am forever finding things I want to have. I want them for me. I want them now. I’m discovering things I didn’t even know existed and I want them. Like, say, dress clips. Dress clips? I didn’t know this was a thing, I would …
It genuinely seems unfair that someone actually owns this gorgeous art deco sapphire ring. Too magnificent for ownership! It should be on display somewhere so we can all ooh and ahh and talk about its beauty and try it on and then maybe run away with it while the display person isn’t looking…. Alright, so …
Oh, hello MOST BEAUTIFUL RING OF ALL TIME. I would like to have you please. This beauty, an absolutely flawless jade art deco ring, comes to us via 1stDibs, and I would like to claim first dibs. Tis a too-lovely-for-words vintage 1920s Art Deco platinum, jadeite, and diamond ring by Boucheron and it’s… well it’s …