Art Nouveau (French for “New Art”) constitutes a period of artistic history between 1890 and 1910. A truly unique blossoming of ideas, Art Nouveau spread like wildfire through Europe and into the wider world, including the Americas and China.
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3 Reasons to Go with White Gold for Your Jewelry
By Nora Barnes on August 12, 2020
Readers of our blog will note our passion for rose and yellow gold as a colorful way of expressing one’s personality. But while these materials may be popular among different age cohorts of women, the third common shade of gold rarely gets as much attention from fashion experts–white gold.
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Exploring Elegance: The History behind Your Jewelry
By Nora Barnes on August 7, 2020
Jewelry doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Rather, it’s a set of traditions, skills, and visions that are passed down from master to pupil. Every nation in the history of the world has created some form of jewelry, and while technologies may be common between people, style and methods of design rarely are. A jewelry aficionado has a lot of options when it comes to exploring the beauty of various nations’ jewelry traditions.
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A Marlene Dietrich Moment: Unisex Jewelry for Any Occasion
By Nora Barnes on September 5, 2019
Sometimes, taking the high femme approach to jewelry and timepieces is too predictable. But let’s say you don’t feel drawn to the real stone look that some k.d. Lang aesthetes can pull off. What can you do? Embrace the kind of look that our goddess, Marlene Dietrich, pioneered.
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Princess, Emerald, and Cushion Cut Diamonds: Which One is Right for Me?
By Nora Barnes on September 3, 2019
When you’re searching for a rectangular diamond for your engagement ring’s center stone, you’ve got three common choices: princess-cut, emerald-cut, and cushion-cut stones. But when your choices are so diverse, how can you judge which rectangular shape is right for you?
The happy medium between colored gems and white diamonds, the colored diamond is a treasure whose fancy hues blend with the diamond’s natural fire. If you’re looking for a piece of jewelry, why not take a peek at colored diamond elegance?
It’s as important for women to project authority in the workplace as a man. To that end, a woman can choose a look that expresses a sense of power, poise, and expertise. This lady boss realness can be summoned by many different qualities: power clothing, demeanor, hairstyles, and makeup.
We’ve discussed in previous blog posts the popularity of rose gold among contemporary women, but while rose gold remains the #1 trend of the late 2010s, there’s quite a few other trends that seem particularly yoked to wedding band fashion.
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Why You Should Choose Yellow Gold for Your Jewelry
By Nora Barnes on August 6, 2019
The title might seem like an odd one, given the popularity of yellow gold in jewelry making. Here’s the issue: To many women, yellow gold seems like an afterthought. Yet, for most of the 20th century, yellow gold was the only option available to women, and the average woman is likely to have predominantly experienced yellow gold in her life.
So, you’re dropping the kiddo off at school, picking ’em up, and going to PTA meetings this school year. It’s important to look your best while being the best embarrassing mom in the world!