The long-awaited moment has come! As the reopening of restaurants, shops and cultural venues brings us a little joy and vitality, we can finally enjoy the exhibitions and in-person classes organized by L’ECOLE, School of Jewelry Arts. After giving us free training during lockdown through its captivating online talks, L’ECOLE is ready to welcome everyone back on its premises on rue Danielle Casanova to keep sharing jewelry culture. Much to our delight, the establishment, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year, has just announced the reopening of the exhibition “Jean Vendome, Artist Jeweler”, extended until August 28, 2021, as well as a new program around Jewelry Design, an art form that remains largely unknown to the public and little studied, although essential to the creative...

An Exercise in Style, a poetic and successful one for two centenarian Parisians. Fruit of a poetic encounter between the high jewellery Maison Van Cleef & Arpels and the prestigious prestigieuse Gallimard Publishing House this coffee table book describes words, stones and metal for a literary and visual promenade. An Exercise in Style by Van Cleef & Arpels – Photo ©BérengèreTreussard This tasty and charming book that you go through with you best girlfriends or alone coiled in you couch sipping tea, is a feminine format book that you leaf through page by page taking your time to savour each detail… Thrilled by so much beauty and intelligence, I could not refrain from telling you about it. Indeed, because each page is surprising and interesting in both the approach and the artistic and cr...

Graff Coffee Table Book with Slipcase – © GRAFF, Rizzoli New York, 2015 A noteworthy event for the end of the year, Maison GRAFF is releasing a magnificent coffee table book for fine jewellery connoisseurs, lovers of precious stones or simply fine book collectors. Without a doubt a MUST HAVE for the festive season, the ideal gift to ask Santa! Seriously, it’s already on my WISH LIST! The book traces the fascinating career history of the London jeweller Laurence Graff, his debut and his creations, through texts and interviews by Vivienne Becker, Maria Doulton, Joanna Hardy, Nina Hald, Nicholas Foulkes, Joanne Harris, and a notable introduction by well known Suzy Menkes (Vogue). In 1970, inspired by the court hair fashion of 18th-century Versailles, Laurence Graff created his famous $1m Hai...