20090129

10 easy Tips for jewellery care

1. Avoid, keeping all your jewellery alltogether in a single box, as hard stones like diamond can give scratches to all other delicate jewellery. Instead wrap each peice of jewellery seperately. Get a jewelry box and/or wrap each piece of jewelry with paper, velvet or silk.

2. Try not to throw, the original box of the jewellery because jewellery is always very safe in it as the box is specially made for particular jewellery.

3. Try to keep the jewellery back in the box recently after use . It definately increases the life of and shine of your stuff.
Little care can give you more

4. Avoid wearing your precious jewellery while you are swimming as the chlorine in the water will discolor your jewellery especially silver. Also while gardening, washing dishes, laundry we should avoid jewellery etc.

5. After every six or seven months jewellery should be cleaned with mild soapy water and soft used brush. Before cleaning jewelry make sure the stones are not loose as while, cleaning you don’t want them coming out.

6. Ultrasonic cleaners are not recommended as the vibrations they make can enlarge inclusions and make them more noticeable.

7. To help prevent damage to your jewelry, don’t put them on until you have your makeup, hairspray, perfume or anything else on. The stuff that is in these products could harm your jewelry. Put bracelets on your opposite hand if your right or left handed. Less wear may occur because it’s not the main hand used.

8. Dont trust anyone new for the cleaning of your jewellery always do it from any well known shop or person. If shipping your jewelry to be cleaned or repaired use a shipper that has tracking and get it insured.

9. Always take the picture of your jewellery before giving it for any cleaning, as you can claim the concerned person in case of damage or chipping.

10. Pricing for cleaning will vary by type of jewelry and the place you take it too. If you recently bought jewelry from a store they might clean and inspect it for free on an annual basis or something like that. So, always check for this option.

20090107

Modern taste series : Ten Of The World's Most Expensive Jewels

Modern necklace
William Goldberg
Fancy Colored Diamond Necklace
$2 million

(£1.1 million, €1.7 million, 88.2 million rupees, C$2.3 million, A$2.7 million)
Macho Guy Equivalent: 171 cases of '95 Chateau Petrus (Pomerol)
Whatever the color of her eyes, there's something to match them in this fancy diamond necklace by William Goldberg, a family-run jeweler for more than 50 years on New York's Fifth Avenue. The lovely necklace is pieced together from 45 carats of fancy colored diamonds, every last one of them natural and microset in platinum and 18-karat yellow gold. Just wait and see her friends turn colors with envy.
( modern taste series :4)

20090104

Modern taste series : Ten Of The World's Most Expensive Jewels


Chanel
D-Flawless Bracelet Watch
$1.9 million
(£1.1 million, €1.6 million, 83.8 million rupees, C$2.2 million, A$2.6 million)
Macho Guy Equivalent: 93 '06 Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic Electra Glides
( modern taste pearls and modern taste bracelet article )
There are two types of watches at the high end of the dial: those that intrigue with complications, and those that dazzle with jewels. For Valentine's Day, we feature one of the latter just for her taste. Part of Chanel's globe-hopping Collection Privee, the D-Flawless Bracelet Watch is arrayed in 18-karat white gold with 120 cultured pearls of 6 millimeters to 6.5mm diameter, and 133 diamonds for a total weight of 35.1 carats, including 32 brilliant-modern cut diamonds of 1 carat per. Oh, and it tells time, too.
( modern taste series :3)

20090102

Modern taste series : Ten Of The World's Most Expensive Jewels

Modern taste series : Ten Of The World's Most Expensive Jewels


Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Co.
Regal Pear Shape Diamond Pendant set in platinum
$2.5 million

(£700,000, €1.1 million, 57.3 million rupees, C$1.5 million, A$1.8 million)

Macho Guy Equivalent: Prewar Classic Six Co-op on Park Avenue in Manhattan

Showstopper or credit-limit topper? Either way, Tiffany's Majestic Diamond Necklace will be center stage wherever it's displayed. With a fluid design that lies softly on the neck--and really, what other way is there?--this glittering choker evokes breathtaking glamour, with a 41.4-carat, pear-shaped diamond accompanied by a multitude of round and pear-shaped diamonds. Each stone is top-of-the-crust in modern color and clarity, of course, as is the pretty blue box it comes in.

( modern taste series :2)




20081230

Ten Of The World's Most Expensive Jewels

Modern taste series 1 :

Graff
Fancy Deep Blue Diamond Ring
$2 million-plus

(£1.1 million, €1.7 million, 88.2 million rupees, C$2.3 million, A$2.7 million)

Macho Guy Equivalent: 22 guided climbs up Mt. Everest, including extra oxygen and tips

We could think up a lot better uses for Graff's Fancy Deep Blue Diamond Ring than a mere Valentine's Day gift--for instance, a proposal--but given the season, it'll have to do. The blue hue is the key to the diamond's cache and price, as fancy diamonds of such deep blue color are extraordinarily rare and extraordinary taste. Chiseled with a striking emerald cut, the 2.4-carat diamond is set in platinum amidst white diamond-tapered baguettes.

( modern taste link....)

20081220

diamond


ダイヤモンド[1](Diamond、金剛石(こんごうせき))は、結晶構造を持つ炭素同素体の一つであり、天然で最も硬い物質である。結晶構造は多くが8面体で、12面体や6面体もある。宝石研磨剤として利用されている。ダイヤモンドの結晶の原子に不対電子が存在しないため、電気を通さない。

地球内部の非常に高温高圧な環境で生成されるダイヤモンドは定まった形で産出されず、また、角ばっているわけではないが、そのカットされた宝飾品の形から、菱形トランプの絵柄(スート)、野球の内野、記号(◇)を指してダイヤモンドとも言われている。

ダイヤモンドという名前は、ギリシア語の adamas (征服できない、懐かない)に由来する。イタリア語スペイン語では diamante (ディヤマンテ)、フランス語では diamant (ディヤマン)、ポーランド語では diament (ディヤメント)という。ロシア語では Диамант (ヂヤマーント)というよりは Алмазアルマース)という方が普通であるが、これは特に磨かれていないダイヤモンド原石のことを指す場合がある。磨かれたものについては Бриллиант (ブリリヤーント)で総称されるのが普通。

4月の誕生石である。石言葉は「永遠の絆・純潔」。

ダイヤモンド12にお越しいただき、ありがとうございます。

ダイヤモンド12は、「ダイヤモンドを買う前に知って欲しい12のこと」
という視点で、ダイヤモンドについての情報を掲載しています。

ダイヤモンドの鉱物としての特徴や歴史といった、基本的な知識から、
価値あるダイヤモンドの指標として有名な4C、さらには、お店を選ぶ
ポイントまで、できる限りわかりやすく、細かく書いてみました。

ダイヤモンドを買うということは、人生でも大きな大きなイベントだと
思います。そのイベントに際して、少しでも満足のいく選択ができるよう
な、情報が提供できればと願います。

まずは右側の「Contents」を順に読み始めてみてください。
お好きなコンテンツだけかいつまんで読まれるのもいいかもしれません。

あなたが、素敵なダイヤモンドと巡り会えることを願っています。



Kristall- Halsbänder

modern taste

Kristall- Halsbänder - Handgefertigte Halsbänder mit Perlen


Reinhold Ludwig SCHMUCK-DESIGN DER MODERNE

In dieser Publikation wird erstmals die Entwicklung des modernen seriellen Schmuck-Designs der Nachkriegszeit bis heute dokumentiert. Diese eigenständige Richtung im Schmuck – mit -Bezügen zur modernen Kunst, Architektur und Design – hat sich vor allem im deutschsprachigen Raum etabliert. Heutiges Schmuck-Design entsteht in mittelständischen Manufakturen und Ateliers und ist eine Gegenströmung zum konventionellen Luxusschmuck. Seit den 1990er Jahren ist ein zunehmendes Interesse an diesem Schmuck, besonders in den USA, in Europa und in Asien, zu beobachten.( modern taste krisstall )

Der Autor beginnt mit einem kurzen Rückblick auf die Ursprünge des modernen Schmucks: Jugendstil, Art Déco, Bauhaus und Neue Sachlichkeit. Die Renaissance der Goldschmiedekunst ab Mitte der 1960er Jahre lieferte die formalen und geistigen Grundlagen für die Entwicklung im modernen seriellen Schmuck-Design. Der große Bildteil zeigt die Entwicklungsgeschichte mit den -bedeutendsten Klassikern des modernen Schmuck-Designs und die -heutigen Protagonisten mit ihren außergewöhnlichen Schmuck-Entwürfen.( germany modern taste )

In rund 60 Kurzporträts werden die wichtigsten Schmuck-Manufakturen und Schmuck-Designer mit ihren heraus-ragenden Arbeiten vorgestellt – ein wesentlicher Teil der skandinavischen und deutschen Schmuckgeschichte von ca. 1960 bis heute.