New York–An array of flawless colorless diamonds, artistic works by master jewelers such as Cartier, JAR and Louis Comfort Tiffany, and an offering of jewels from the collection of a late fashion model will be among the highlights of Sotheby’s New York sale of Magnificent Jewels.
The Dec. 9 auction is expected to bring in more than $20 million, Sotheby’s said in a media release, with pieces of exceptional provenance and craftsmanship defining the sale.
“From the perfection of flawless diamonds and the rarity of natural pearls to the originality of one-of-a-kind pieces, our sale this season presents a captivating array of jewels that can only be found at auction,” Lisa Hubbard, chairman of Sotheby’s International Jewelry Department, North and South American divisions, said in a media release.
Hubbard added that after the success of the auction house’s recent sales in Hong Kong and New York, it has been clear that buyers are actively seeking diamonds with an extra something special, whether that be the stone’s inherent charm, rare shape or perfect quality.
Among the important colorless diamonds set for auction is a magnificent and rare oval diamond weighing 30.48 carats, of D color, with flawless clarity and type IIa “Golconda-like” classification, estimated to sell for more than $3.3 million.
Additional unmounted specimens worthy of attention include a round diamond weighing in at 18.11 carats, of H color and graded triple-X with excellent cut, polish and symmetry, as well as a pear-shaped diamond cut for candlelight and weighing 13.85 carats, with D color and VS2 clarity. The stones are estimated to fetch between $750,000 to $1 million, and $400,000 to $500,000, respectively.
As for mounted stones, highlights include a square emerald-cut diamond of 9.69 carats set as a ring and estimated between $350,000 and $450,000. The stone has E color, VVS2 clarity, is potentially flawless and certified type IIa.
Works of art by 20th-century master jewelers that are slated for the auction include two seminal pieces from Cartier’s famed 1920s period, including an Egyptian-style jeweled scarab belt buckle ($250,000-$350,000) and an Egyptian-style lapis lazuli, turquoise, diamond, black onyx and enamel bracelet ($75,000-$100,000).
The pieces feature exceptional provenance: The belt buckle was purchased in 1926 by Mrs. Cole Porter, and the bracelet was made by special order for her in 1929. Prior to her death in 1954, Porter gave the jewels to her friend, Princess Natalie Paley, in whose family collection the jewels have remained to the present day.
A rare and important, fancy intense-yellow diamond and emerald ring from Tiffany and Co., designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany circa 1915-1920, will also be featured ($200,000-$300,000), as well as a colored-stone and diamond bracelet designed by Van Cleef and Arpels, dating to 1930 ($100,000-$150,000). The yellow diamond in the Tiffany ring weighs in at 11.05 carats and is decorated with calibre-cut emeralds, while the Van Cleef bracelet incorporates 11.25 carats of colorless European-cut diamonds accented with sapphires, rubies, emeralds and onyx.
Also highly anticipated are pieces from the collection of Lucia Moreira Salles, a former model from Brazil and a dedicated philanthropist. Salles began her career in Paris at the end of the 1950s, and became a muse for both Valentino and Coco Chanel.
Highlights from her collection include three gemstone rings accented with diamonds and mounted in platinum by Paris designer JAR: one featuring a 27-carat cabochon Colombian emerald ($400,000-$600,000); another featuring a sugarloaf cabochon Burmese ruby weighing approximately 16.3 carats ($150,000-$200,000); and the third, a diamond “String” ring set with a 16.04-carat oval diamond of F color, SI1 clarity and type IIa ($350,000-$450,000).
Salles’ collection also features a selection of pearls, including a natural-pearl and diamond necklace ($250,000-$350,000) and a natural-pearl and diamond ring ($30,000-$50,000).
“Lucia Moreira Salles’ very personal collection offers a window into the innate style and elegance for which she was revered,” Hubbard said in the release. “She did not collect to impress; these are pieces that she loved to wear and which were part of the remarkable style that enabled her to work for two of the most influential fashion designers of all time during a legendary era in Paris.”
Prior to the December pre-sale viewing, highlights from the Magnificent Jewels auction will be exhibited in Geneva, Hong Kong and Los Angeles.
NEW YORK — Reality TV personalities Heidi and Spencer Pratt said Monday they want to branch out from MTV’s “The Hills” and star in their own reality show to give viewers a bigger peek into their lives.
In an interview to promote their new book, “How to be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press, and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture,” the couple told The Associated Press they’re shopping the idea around to various networks.
They said that while “The Hills” — which doesn’t acknowledge its cast members’ fame — only focuses on a small part of their lives, their own show would reveal everything that happens to them. They also said they’d be even be willing to include live segments.
“You don’t get to see our everyday lives and what we do,” Heidi Pratt said.
But the Pratts also said they don’t plan to leave “The Hills” and hope to appear in both shows.
Last summer, the newlyweds also appeared on NBC’s “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!” during a break from “The Hills.”
MTV did not immediately return telephone calls seeking comment Monday.
You have to be a very important collector to get your own sale at Christie’s. Most collections are amassed into larger sales but a single owner collection of 10 jewels is set for December 10, is set for the same day as the New York Jewels sale at Christie’s New York. This smaller sale features some big stones. The most important is the “Evening Star” diamond, a pear-shaped, 39-carat, D-color diamond mounted in a platinum pendant. This stone is a type IIa diamond the type which was found in India’s famous ancient Golconda mines. It is certified to be VVS1 clarity and is accompanied by a working diagram indicating that the clarity may be potentially internally flawless.
The Evening Star alone is estimated at $3.6 million to $5.5 million. The name comes from the owner’s habit of wearing the stone to evening galas. She wore the stone suspended from a diamond necklace that consisted of 68 graduated pear-shaped diamonds. That necklace is also for sale with an estimated value of $400,000 to $600,000. And to complete the parure you can pick up the matching pair of diamond ear pendants with two pear-shaped, D-color diamonds of 10.21 and 10.51 carats. The earrings which are also type IIa stones are estimated to bring in $1.7 million to $2.5 million.
Other diamond pieces in the sale include a diamond bracelet by Van Cleef and Arpels and a 36.78-carat, rectangular-cut, D-color, internally flawless diamond ring mounted in platinum with an estimated value of between $2.75 million and $3.5 million. If diamonds aren’t your favorite you can bid on an a rare color-change alexandrite ring. The 3.6 carat stone show teal in daylight and purple in incandescent light.
Modern fashionistas apperceive that a abiding career is consistently in style.
Independence was the featured attending at My Sister’s Closet of Monroe County’s “Monday Night Fashion,” an atramentous of aerodrome activity and socio-economical apprenticeship on the women’s workforce front.
“What we absolutely try to do, in actual basal terms, is change lives,” said Jennifer Stewart, controlling administrator of My Sister’s Closet afore a accidentally dressed army in Briscoe’s academic lounge.
Stewart, continuing on a floor-level aerodrome ancient amid aisles of built-in onlookers, said that abounding women still face bigotry in the workplace. For those discouraged, or sometimes on the border of homelessness, she said the alignment offers chargeless or discounted business able attire.
“I accept the plan we do at My Sister’s Closet helps women feel bigger about themselves,” she said. “When a woman sees the possibilities she didn’t see before, that’s power.”
Stewart said the alignment not alone apparel women for additional confidence, but delivers resume and job-hunting admonition as well.
Amid ablaze lights, blush balloons and adorning flowers about the lounge was a accouterment band announcement gently-used tweed jackets, button-up shirts, cable-knit sweaters and accidental dresses.
Junior Jennifer Gutsgell, a My Sister’s Closet volunteer, said the alignment frequently finds admired items to advertise inexpensively.
“I got a brace of Seven jeans for 5 dollars,” she said. “The abundance has lots of abundant finds.”
Similar “great finds” were showcased in the evening’s featured accident – a full-scale, music blasting, student-modeled appearance show.
Sophomore Rebecca Carne accustomed loud acclaim as she strutted down the runway, clay atramentous heels and a analogous purse.
“I was a little nervous, but it was fun,” she said. “I plan actuality at Briscoe, and My Sister’s Closet is our accomplice group. I’m absolutely aflame to help, and the association actuality adulation fashion, so it’s a abundant combination.”
Freshman Mike Holmquist, dressed arch to toe in IU gear, was a part of those auspicious in the crowd.
“It was acceptable to appear out and see a abundant alignment get out and advice ladies in need,” he said.
It’s a appearance daydream — and no, were not talking about Lady Gaga’s latest ensemble.
Buzz in Seventh Avenue showrooms is that Zac Posen and Gucci are about to accept some above layoffs. As of Monday, Posen carnality admiral of communications Karen Duffy’s position was clearly “eliminated”; it is now getting handled by Zac’s mom, Susan, and Alexandra Smith, adept administrator of accessible relations and celebrity.
While a rep for Posen had “no comment,” an industry cabal dishes that added layoffs are “pending” at the Laight St. offices — a aftereffect of the boxy times designers are accepting in New York.
“Zac is accomplishing aggregate to be acute about his business,” the antecedent says, “but it just may not be enough.”
“It’s just a boxy time for designers,” the antecedent continues, “especially for a middle-line characterization like Zac. Shoppers aren’t spending like they acclimated to. And celebrity audience accomplish for able marketing, but you can’t abject a business on it.”
A rep for Gucci could not be accomplished for comment.
It’s not just bad times in the biz in the Big Apple, either — things are searching appealing austere beyond the pond, too. Sewing machines came to a standstill on Tuesday at above British characterization Luella, founded by artist Luella Bartley, if its arch banking backer, VSQ, absitively it could “no best advance in the relationship.”
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Sorry for not announcement the endure few weeks. Among added things, I was in Europe, talking actuality and there about the Invasion of the Third Screens…
While Europe is way advanced of the U.S. in plain-old cellular service—an added $65 to AT&T for the ages got me all-you-can-eat adrift abstracts on my iPhone throughout Europe, with all-over 3G advantage from Munich to Geneva to London—it’s abaft us in the about-face to e-readers and tablets. This is mainly due to burst markets; there are so abounding carriers, publishers and languages that it’s harder to see how any one belvedere will appear any time soon. The Kindle, which was just launched abroad, is still advised cutting-edge technology and is wowing the masses, admitting books are alone accessible in English for now.
I had one tiny epiphany I capital to share, however. I was arrive to appear an centralized appointment at Richemont, the aggregation that owns some of the world’s best-known affluence brands. Throughout the day, the agenda cast managers were assuming off some of their Web-based projects and, as I watched some of the absolutely gorgeous, accurate getting that they were doing, I accomplished that one day soon, these sorts of things will advance from getting Web pages to getting the ad pages that beautify agenda magazines.
This is in fact a actual big deal. It agency that affectation commercial will plan again.
Right now, the archetypal doesn’t plan because you accept to go to, say, Van Cleef & Arpels’s website to see its ad. But what if the ad came to you, just as it does in a magazine. Alone it’s way bigger than a annual because it’s activated and compelling. Imagine account your admired annual on a tablet, and you hit this bobcat (Now, on the Web, you’ve got to let it amount first; that won’t be a botheration on a downloaded e-mag.) How could you not stop and collaborate with it? Commercial will plan so abundant bigger in the tablet-mag world.
Mikimoto, the allegorical pearling avant-garde and acclaimed jeweller presents its elegant, bound copy Babe Chaplet set absolute a awe-inspiring 16-inch Akoya able fair fiber featuring an intricate, 18k white gold and pave-diamond, filigree styled brooch and a brace of aces Akoya able fair stud earrings. This absolute heart-shaped jewel is advertisement and can be opened to acquiesce for a claimed inscription, and can aswell be beat as a adorable chaplet on an 18k white gold chain. The around-the-clock set is presented in a comfortable bespoke white covering case.
The appropriate set was advised on the break of the awakening of the Queen Charlottes Ball, the arch amusing accident of the London Division 2009, which took abode on 24th September and area Mikimoto was the jewellery sponsor. The cast presented the aboriginal of its absolute Mikimoto Bound Copy Babe chaplet for bargain to advice accession money for Queen Charlotte’s Appeal and aswell provided debutantes admirable jewellery to abrasion for the evening.
Mikimoto European and Middle East Sales Manager, Jeremy Burbanks said, “Mikimoto is acutely blessed to present the Babe Chaplet set advised in honour of Queen Charlotte’s Ball, one of London’s awful celebrated alms events. Hailed apple over as the analogue of adorableness and grace, a Mikimoto fair altogether complements a adolescent woman’s admission into adulthood. The set has accustomed actual agog acknowledgment in UK decidedly from parents adulatory to present their daughters a around-the-clock jewel. And as the Middle East attitude cherishes abutting ancestors bonds, I’m abiding this set will be abundant accepted here.”
An anytime accelerating architecture house, Mikimoto has advised a absolutely memorable section in befitting with the avant-garde spirit of the adolescent generation. For the advertisement brooch offers them the advantage of adhering it on to the beauteous 16-inch fair fiber or cutting it as a chaplet on an 18k white gold chain. While its attendance instantly transforms the bright fair fiber into a adorable red-carpet jewel, if strung on the attenuate 18k white gold alternation as chaplet it offers an affected day time adornment. Matching its adorableness is a brace of adorable Akoya able pearl, stud earrings advised to adulate its wearer’s profile.
Mikimoto’s Babe chaplet makes a applicable allowance for parents adulatory to mark their adolescent daughter’s aboriginal accomplish into adolescence that will be admired and anesthetized on to advancing ancestors of the family.
It was over a aeon ago in 1893 if Mikimoto able the aboriginal pearl, cogent a admiration to beautify the necks of all women with chaplet of the finest kind. And his eponymous fair jewellery abode is absolutely the absolute best for the adorable event.
A aces tradition
The babe division and ‘coming out’ has its roots in the 18th aeon if about 1780 King George III captivated a brawl for his wife, Queen Charlotte for her birthday. The Queen Charlotte’s Brawl with the advice of debutantes of the time, helped to accession funds for mothers and babies through the hospital that after became accepted as Queen Charlotte’s Hospital. Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Mischa Barton and Dame Helen Mirren are a part of the abounding arresting humans built-in here.
This hospital is home to Professor Lord Winston’s world-renowned analysis unit, allowance to anticipate abortive birth, abortion and infertility. His plan is the almsman of the awakening of the aces Queen Charlotte’s Ball, which was hosted by him, and took abode at Durbar Court, the ‘Jewel of Whitehall’ a area rarely accessible to the public.
One of the acclaimed traditions of the Queen Charlotte’s Brawl was the advance of the debutantes dressed in white and presented to ability in foreground of an eight bottom top cake. This year’s awakening too, included a commemoration with a beauteous block fabricated by the Head Chef Patissier of the Savoy Hotel. The all-embracing debutantes entered, cutting Pronovias white gowns and Mikimoto’s chaplet and precious stones and were presented to the adorable HH Princess Olga Romanov, HRH Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, and the actual adventurous HE Don Alfonso di Borbon y Franco, Duke of Anjou & Cadiz.
Mikimoto’s affected and admirable Babe Fair set is now accessible at Saks Fifth Avenue BurJuman and at Damas Les Exclusives Boutiques in Burj Al Arab, Dubai Mall, Mall of the Emirates and at Mina A’ Salam.
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