CARTIER’S REBELLIOUS FLOWER Cartier is playing coy with their latest interpretation of beauty. The you-can-look-but-you-can’t-touch creates a tension familiar to all and is the inspiration behind their latest collection in their long standing love affair of flowers. This time recognizing that maybe this desert blossom isn’t a fleur du mal after all. Cactus de Cartier is a luxurious celebration of beauty growing amongst the thorns, delicate and wild. The desert’s searing days and frigid nights only making for brighter blooms. Cactus de Cartier is a free-spirited collection of powerful, sculptural jewelry that makes a bold statement. Putting a twist…
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Kicking off the international jewelry auction season Christie’s offered their Important Jewels event in New York City, by Rockefeller Center this month where over two hundred and fifty lots were available, with estimates ranging from under $5,000 to $750,000 USD. The sale total came to an impressive $10,526,150 USD. The over all market was choosy yet buoyant as the more spectacular pieces easily soared over expectations. This is the beginning of the highly anticipated auction season which every year offers the general pulse of the marketplace within the jewelry world. Next up Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction will take place in…
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This year the TEFAF Maastricht art and design exhibit was once again an incredible success.
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We at Les Carats have composed a carefully selected wish list of luxurious gift ideas, trinkets and dreams that are sure to make your holidays even more decadent and bright.
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Here, behind closed doors, in a respectfully hushed room of jewelry connoisseurs their calm refinement belie the electricity of the auction proceedings as million-dollar bid raises fly by faster than the Gran Prix in a race to own some of the world's finest jewels.