Step into the world of big diamonds, family legacy, and unforgettable heirlooms with our guest, Eve Goldberg — creative director and a principal at the legendary William Goldberg Diamonds - legendary business at the pinnacle of New York diamond industry.
Following in her father's legendary footsteps, she and her family continue to offer the world's most beautiful diamonds, sharing these spellbinding gems with a new generation of global contemporary customers.
Sharing six deeply personal pieces that tell the story of her family, her path into the business, and the emotional weight jewellery can carry, from an en tremblant brooch worn by her mother to the origins of the patented Ashoka® diamond cut, Eve opens up with warmth, wisdom and sparkle.
Whether you're a jewellery lover, a woman in business, or simply someone who appreciates powerful stories behind beautiful things, this episode is pure gold. ✨
I want to hear from you! What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. So please email me: jessica@juraster.com
To access show notes and images of the items in this episode, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-eve-goldbergProduced by Lizzie Wingham.
Engineered by Asa Bennett.
Belinda Morris has a curious family story about one of the Crown Jewels, and is the long reigning editor of "The Jeweller" magazine produced by the National Association of Jewellers, the UK's leading trade body.
Starting out in fashion journalism, before turning her attention to watches and jewellery, Belinda boasts a decades long career in trade journalism, alongside her vintage jewellery hobby.
I hope you enjoy listening to Belinda's insights and discovering the pieces she treasures as much as I did, making this episode.
You can see her Jewel Vault jewellery in detail on the corresponding webpage for this episode here: https://www.juraster.com › blogs › insidethejewelvault › inside-the-jewel-vault-with-belinda-morris
And I want to hear from you! What special pieces would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. So please email me: jessica@juraster.com
Produced by Lizzie Wingham.
Engineered by Asa Bennet.
What does the doyenne of luxury have in her Vault?
Lucia van der Post is the long reigning queen of luxury journalism. Born and educated in South Africa, the daughter of famous author Sir Laurens van der Post, she’s forged a decades long career in journalism. Starting out on London’s Fleet Street she became founding editor of the Financial Times How to Spend It magazine. She has written extensively on style, design and all things sophisticated, beautiful and tasteful.
I hope you enjoy listening to Lucia's remarkable stories and discovering the pieces she holds most dear, as much as I did.
Head to our website to listen to this wonderful episode where you'll also be able to take a close look at all the jewellery we discuss.
And I want to hear from you! What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. So please email me: jessica@juraster.com
Produced by Lizzie Wingham. Engineered by Asa Bennet.
Welcome to Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins. In this episode, I have the honour of speaking with Wallace Chan, one of the world’s greatest jewellery artists and master craftspeople.
His work is treasured in both East and West by private collectors and museums such as The British Museum, London and Long Museum, Shanghai. His spellbinding designs express the beauty of life underpinned by his own technical innovations such as a gemstone intaglio cutting technique called the Wallace Cut and The Wallace Chan Porcelain, a new form of porcelain 5 times harder than steel! And all this despite leaving school aged only 13.
While creating this conversation, Wallace’s unique way of viewing jewellery and life was so enjoyable that I think it's impossible not to learn something useful. His insights as a master jewellery technician, creator and innovator are inspiring to say the least. I hope you enjoy walking through the world of Wallace Chan as much as I did!
Head to our website to see superb images of all these incredible pieces.
I want to hear from you! What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. So please email me: jessica@juraster.com
Produced by Lizzie Wingham. Engineered by Asa Bennet.
Revel in the wonders inside Sandra Hindman's Vault, as the leading scholar, international dealer and founder of Les Enluminures - unveils a speaking jewel and a betrothal ring restituted from a Nazi hoard.
I hope you enjoy listening!
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with a guest drawn from the great and the good from across the jewellery world.
Guest Bio: Dr Sandra Hindman is the founder of leading antique dealer Les Enluminures, which she started over 30 years ago in 1991, and now has three galleries in Paris, Chicago, and New York. She's a specialist in rare, illuminated manuscripts and books, and her expertise also covers precious works of art in gold and gems, posy rings, antique jewels, and archaeological treasures. In addition to overseeing the activities of her three busy galleries, Sandra travels to many international art fairs and book fairs. And she's a certified GIA alumnus, a professor Emirata of Art History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and has written 18 books, 35 reviews, over 60 catalogues, and she speaks three languages and reads six. I want to hear from you!
What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-dr-sandra-hindman
Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham. https://www.tinydinosaur.tv/
Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.
My grateful thanks to you both!
Meet Robin Hansen. She’s Curator of Minerals and Gemstones at the Natural History Museum – one of the world's largest and most important mineralogical and gemmological collections. What treasures will she pick for her own fantasy Jewel Vault?
Robin selects a gem-fest from her life and career in gems and jewellery ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.
I hope you enjoy listening!
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with a guest drawn from the great and the good from across the jewellery world.
Guest Bio: Robin Hansen is Curator, Minerals and Gemstones at the Natural History Museum, London. Originally from Perth, Australia, Robin worked in iron ore exploration and then for a partnership of high-end mineral dealers before achieving her dream role to become curator, minerals and gemstones at the Natural History Museum, in 2015. Her first book, "Gemstones a Concise Reference Guide", has just been published by the Natural History Museum.
I want to hear from you!
What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-robin-hansen
Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham. https://www.tinydinosaur.tv/
Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.
My grateful thanks to you both!
Visionary jeweller Romilly Saumarez Smith selects six fantastical jewels that overturn our usual concepts of arrangement and form, and tells how she overcame paralysis due to illness to work creatively again.
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with guests drawn from the great and the good across the jewellery world, who chose six special pieces from their life and career in jewellery to save in a fantasy jewel vault, before ultimately picking just one to treasure forever.
I hope you enjoy listening!
Guest Bio: Romilly Saumarez Smith is a gifted and expressive artist whose imaginative creations weave fantasy, mystery and meaning in materials ranging from precious gems and metals, to fossils, cutlery handles and even metal detected finds. Romilly’s career has been split in two. At first, she found acclaim as a book binder and her work is in leading collections including the V&A, but 25 years ago she turned her attention to jewellery. Unfortunately, she developed multiple sclerosis which progressed to her hands, and her creative journey seemed ended. Eventually, she was introduced to a young jeweller Lucie Gledhill, who could translate the images Romilly saw in her minds’ eye, and this way of working with assistants –instead of her own hands - has successfully brought her ideas to life since then.
I want to hear from you!
What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-romilly-saumarez-smith
Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham. https://www.tinydinosaur.tv/
Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.
My grateful thanks to you both!
Boost your brain as you discover what curiosities the brilliant physicist, Prof Robert Hazen, puts inside his fantasy jewel vault!
Bob picks six marvellous gems from his life and work in mineralogy, experimental physics and the origin of life on earth, before ultimately selecting one to treasure forever.
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with guests drawn from the great and the good across the jewellery world, who chose six special pieces from their life and career in jewellery to save in a fantasy jewel vault, before ultimately picking just one to treasure forever.
I hope you enjoy listening!
Guest Bio: Professor Robert Hazen is a truly impressive person. He's the only person I know who has both handled moon dust and has a mineral named after him. Bob studied geology at MIT, earth Sciences at Harvard, and a postdoc at Cambridge. He's currently senior Staff Scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's, Earth and Planets Laboratory. And he recently retired as the Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences at George Mason University. Until 2019, he was executive director of the Deep Carbon Observatory, which was a fascinating global scientific research collaboration. He is a past president of the Mineralogical Society of America. He's written 25 books and hundreds of scientific articles, most recently on possible roles of minerals in the origin of life, mineral evolution, and the coevolution of the geosphere and biosphere.
I want to hear from you!
What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-professor-robert-hazen
Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham. https://www.tinydinosaur.tv/
Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.
My grateful thanks to you both!
What does the jewellery entrepreneur choose to hoard? Listen to Darren Hildrow, the highly regarded jewellery businessman and founder of NouvelleBox, describe his six surprising choices and ultimate treasure to see that it’s as much about the personality of those he does business with, as the amount of business he generates.
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with guests drawn from the great and the good across the jewellery world, who chose six special pieces from their life and career in jewellery to save in a fantasy jewel vault, before ultimately picking just one to treasure forever.
I hope you enjoy listening!
Guest Bio: Darren Hildrow is a British entrepreneur who is well-connected and highly regarded in the international jewellery industry. After a creative start in the London trade as a maker, Darren worked at high society costumer jewellers Erickson Beamon and Vicki Sarge before moving into fine jewellery as business manager for Jade Jagger and Noor Fares. Following a period as Jewellery Director for a multi-brand wholesale agency, Darren established the first ever online wholesale marketplace, serving jewellery makers and buyers in a community of their own, NouvelleBox.
I want to hear from you!
What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-darren-hildrow
Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham. https://www.tinydinosaur.tv/
Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.
My grateful thanks to you both!
What does a jewellery curator & historian covet?
Dr Beatriz Chadour-Sampson selects six fascinating pieces from her renowned jewellery scholarship and extraordinary family history to put into her fantasy jewel vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with guests drawn from the great and the good across the jewellery world, who chose six special pieces from their life and career in jewellery to save in a fantasy jewel vault.
I hope you enjoy listening!
Guest Bio: Dr Beatriz Chadour-Sampson is a polymath of jewellery scholarship: a curator, lecturer, writer and historian with a breadth of jewellery knowledge that spans the whole of human history. Beatriz’s cosmopolitan childhood was spent moving with her father’s successful jewellery business: born in Cuba, she moved to New York and all across Europe from Germany to Spain as a child, before marrying and and settling in England.
She is a prolific writer on a broad range of specialist topics from antiquity to the C21 Beatriz is specifically known for her curatorship and her long consultancy with the unique Alice & Louis Koch collection of historic and contemporary rings at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, she was consultant curator in the redesign of the William & Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, and guest curator of the stunning Pearls exhibitions in 2013-14.
I want to hear from you!
What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-dr-beatriz-chadour-sampson/
Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham. https://www.tinydinosaur.tv/
Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.
My grateful thanks to you both!
What beautiful stories can artisanal mining tell us?
Cristina Villegas, the globally respected Pact director, shares her bright, gem-rich fantasy Jewel Vault and describes what ethical jewellery means at a human level, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.
I hope you enjoy listening!
Guest Bio: Cristina Villegas is a leading figure advancing good governance in the artisanal and small-scale mines to market sector. About 20% of the diamonds and gold we buy and 80% of the sapphires are amongst the minerals mined informally by an estimated 45m people worldwide, some of whom earn less than $2 a day. Whilst it’s a hugely important source of minerals and metals globally, it traps communities in a cycle of poverty.
Based in Washington DC, Cristina is Director of Responsible Sourcing and Minerals at PACT, a respected global NGO advancing development and sustainability and her projects range from mining safety in Indonesia, to child labour in gold mining in Columbia via many projects in African nations including the pioneering Moyo Gems women’s social enterprise in Tanzania. I want to hear from you!
What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own.
To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-cristina-villegas
Produced by Lizzie Wingham.
Series engineered Asa Bennett.
What gems would fill a field gemmologist's vault?
Lace up your hiking boots and get ready to find out in this episode as I ask GIA Field Gemologist, Wim Vertriest, to select six pieces from his travels and career in gemmology and put them into a fantasy Jewel Vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with guests drawn from the great and the good across the jewellery world, who chose six special pieces from their life and career in jewellery to save in a fantasy jewel vault, before ultimately picking just one to treasure forever.
I hope you enjoy listening!
Guest Bio: Wim Vertriest is manager of Field Gemology at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and Curator of the Institute's Colored Stone Research Collection. Originally from Belgium where he graduated as a geologist, Wim is now based in the global capital of gemstones, Bangkok, where he is the Wim is Manager of Field Gemology at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and Curator of the Institute's Colored Stone Research Collection.
He has first-hand knowledge of gem mining and has travelled, lectured and written extensively on coloured gems. He says he can find his way around the world’s gemstone mining areas just as easily as navigating the microscopic internal world of gemstones.
I want to hear from you!
What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own.
To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-wim-vertriest
Produced by Lizzie Wingham.
Series engineered Asa Bennett.
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with a guest drawn from the great and the good from across the jewellery world.
In this episode I ask Vogue jewellery editor, author, historian and fellow podcaster, Carol Woolton, to select six pieces from her life and career in jewellery and put them into a fantasy Jewel Vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.
I hope you enjoy listening!
Guest Bio: Vogue jewellery editor, author and historian, Carol Woolton stands as a leading light across both fashion and jewellery industries, renowned for her discerning judgement of style and meaning in jewellery design. In this conversation with Jessica, Carol describes six superb gems & jewels which have influenced her during the course of her life and career in jewellery.
I want to hear from you!
What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to:
https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-carol-woolton
Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham. https://www.tinydinosaur.tv/
Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.
My grateful thanks to you both!
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller, and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with a guest drawn from the great and the good from across the jewellery world.
In this episode I ask the fiction writer, Josie Goodbody, to select six pieces from her life and career in jewellery and put them into a fantasy Jewel Vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.
Josie is the creator of the glamorous Jemima Fox Mysteries, a series of adventures inspired by real-life diamond heists. Romping through high-society and fashion PR, Josie’s own real-life stories and adventures are almost as dazzling and colorful as her Vault jewellery choices. Josie selects a cornucopia of the most superlative gems and jewels in existence, pieces which are on a whole different level to most items any of us will ever encounter. Although her energy and sense of fun is infectious, it’s the emotional connection she has with the transformative promise of gems and her strong feelings about their power to make our dreams come true which marked this special conversation. I hope you enjoy listening!
Guest Bio: A jewellery & fashion PR turned author, Josie Goodbody worked with the jewels of Bulgari, Ritz Fine Jewels, and was Head of PR at Graff for several years, working closely with Laurence Graff himself, the King of Diamonds. She has traveled extensively particularly in South Africa and France where she lived in Paris and Monaco. A heist expert, Josie has so far written 4 novels and 1 novella following the diamond sleuth Jemima Fox as she unravels audacious diamond thefts inspired by real life events. The series has recently been optioned for TV. Josie also has her own podcast series exploring jewellery history, The Jewellarian. http://www.josiegoodbody.com/
I want to hear from you! What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-josie-goodbody
Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham. https://www.tinydinosaur.tv/
Engineered by the genius Asa Bennet.
My grateful thanks to you both!
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with a guest drawn from the great and the good from across the jewellery world.
In this episode I ask the multi-talented Darren Sherwood to select six pieces from his life and career in jewellery and put them into a fantasy Jewel Vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.
Darren is a highly regarded diamond mounter, but his unique expertise is in using cutting edge technology to blend seamlessly with his mastery of traditional fine craftsmanship, making use of the best of both worlds – manual and digital. Apart from being one of the warmest, most patient and up-beat guys you could meet, Darren has innate talent, focus, and drive along with a curiosity to create the seemingly impossible. He forged his own career for himself in defiance of his parent’s expectations of an academic career. He has worked for some of the greatest names in jewellery and silver, taught himself multiple digital programmes and recently he has also taught himself micro-diamond setting – giving him more skills and accomplishments than most jewellers ever master in one entire career.
I met Darren a few years ago when I worked at Garrard-Stephen Webster. Each time I visited the workshop, he was working on increasingly complex and astonishingly technical creations for both brands, pushing the boundary of what was technically feasible. To listen to Darren is to glimpse inside the mind of a genius. He is a true maestro, but so natural and funny to chat with. I am very excited to share this conversation with you because it’s rarely possible to have the opportunity of learning how such extraordinary pieces are actually created, and what sort of person it takes to achieve this level of skill. Sit back, relax and let him explain all - I hope you enjoy listening!
I want to hear from you! What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-darren-sherwood
Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham. https://www.tinydinosaur.tv/
Engineered by the very patient and brilliant Gareth Lewis.
My grateful thanks to you both!
In this episode of Inside the Jewel Vault, my guest from the great & the good of the jewellery world is the world leading expert on ancient metalwork and technology, Dr Jack Ogden. He selects six pieces from his life and career to put into a fantasy Jewel Vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.
This was the very first podcast we recorded so I think you might hear how nervous I was, but Jack was so charming and kind – I could have easily doubled the length of our conversation because he was really easy to chat to. Despite the highly academic nature of his research, Jack talks so fluently and engagingly that his passion and regard for ancient jewellery materials and technology shines brightly. The spellbinding magic of the ancient jewels he selects comes vividly alive as he shares with us some of their secrets. In over 45 years of research, Jack has studied an astonishing quantity of ‘real’ treasure - gems, ancient jewels and precious artefacts discovered or passed down through the ages from the hands of their ancient craftsmen and owners. A fourth-generation jeweller, Jack has successfully straddled both the jewellery industry and the academic realm in his career. The author of innumerable books and scholarly articles, his first book Jewellery of the Ancient World was hailed as a masterpiece and earnt him a Doctorate from Durham. He is considered one of the foremost scholars in his field, and along with research for his books, he is a renowned consultant in dating and authenticating jewels from the Ancient to the Medieval worlds. He was appointed Visiting Professor of Ancient Jewellery, Material and Technology, at the BCU in 2019. He is also the current President of The Society of Jewellery Historians https://www.societyofjewelleryhistorians.ac.uk
I hope you enjoy listening!
I want to hear from you! What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-dr-jack-ogden
Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham. https://www.tinydinosaur.tv/
Engineered by the very patient and brilliant Gareth Lewis.
My grateful thanks to you both!
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins. In this episode I ask leading designer Hannah Martin to select six pieces from her life and career in jewellery and put them into a fantasy Jewel Vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.
Since first encountering Hannah’s pieces over a decade ago, I have admired her uncompromising approach to designing jewellery that speaks to her essential vision. It is non-derivative, non-gender defining, non-prescriptive. Her designs explore our deepest attachments to jewellery as talismans of life and emotion, in a way that is so much more than just skilfully crafting pieces from gorgeous gems and precious metal. It just exists now and always in the moment. To speak to her and learn about her life and journey was transfixing, the passion and intelligence she emits is bewitching. She is a phenomenally talented person but so easy to speak to, and so openly honest about her story. Listen to her as she describes her process in this revealing podcast episode. This was a conversation I was so excited to have with a real jewellery hero of mine, and even more excited to be able to share with you, so I hope you also enjoy.
Guest Bio: Hannah is a leading contemporary designer whose fine jewellery emit a uniquely edgy energetic aesthetic. Hannah founded her own workshop in Clerkenwell, East London in 2006 shortly after graduating from St Martin’s, since when her work has been acclaimed by the press and jewellery lovers alike for its uncompromising post-punk vision. Her pieces straddle the gender divide as well as confronting norms of beauty and function. https://www.hannahmartinlondon.com
I want to hear from you! What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-hannah-martin
Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault! In this episode I ask the jewellery experts’ expert, Vivienne Becker, to select pieces from her life and career to put inside her fantasy Jewel Vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.
Vivienne is a world authority on jewellery history and design, as well as a leading author and journalist, and she’s encountered a vast array of jewels and designers throughout her 40 year career. She is my personal jewellery hero – when I embarked on my jewellery career over 30 years ago, it was her book that guided me, and I still avidly look to her to learn from – so I was quite star struck to have a conversation with her. I wondered what pieces would someone of her status and discernment choose?
Just as I had hoped, thanks to her superb eye for talent, trend and outstanding design, Vivienne’s fantasy vault is a sumptuous treat of virtuoso jewels. Vivienne also knows everyone who is anyone and it’s fascinating to listen to her describe the warm and supportive friendships she enjoys with the personalities behind the pieces. Vivienne offers so much to learn and wonder at in her selection, but for me, the magic of this podcast is in Vivienne’s final choice - heart-warming, inspiring and meaningful.
Guest Bio: Since working for an antiques jewellery dealer as a teenager, Vivienne was hooked as much by the personalities of the trade as the jewels themselves. She became a journalist specialising in jewellery and wrote her first book in 1980, “Antique and Twentieth Century Jewellery”, which is held as the standard work on the topic and has been reprinted many times. She has written 15 other volumes including one with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and contributed to many more. Her print and online articles on everyone from Laurence Graff to Rene Lalique are commissioned by the top titles of the world’s press. For 4 decades, Vivienne has curated exhibitions, judged awards and lectured, mentored young designers, guided connoisseurs, and educated the lay reader. http://www.viviennebecker.com/
I want to hear from you! What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-vivienne-becker
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Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins. In this episode I ask superstar fine jewellery blogger Katerina Perez to select six pieces from her life and career in jewellery and put them into a fantasy Jewel Vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.
Katerina speaks about her career and life with passion and intelligence, and it’s moving to hear the personal stories behind her selection. Jewellery has been such a powerfully compelling force in her life that she has forged such a successful career at a time when no one else was blogging about the high end world of fine jewellery. With the entire world of fine jewellery brands and designers to choose from, I was intrigued to see what Katerina would select. The pieces in her fantasy jewel vault are a wonderful assortment of astonishing gems and meaningful keepsakes. It was a big treat for me to make this episode because Katerina is one of my jewellery heroes, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.
Guest Bio: Katerina Perez is a pioneering jewellery blogger with 350,000 Instagram followers who follow her glittering journey in fine jewellery every day. Russian-born Paris-based Katerina worked as a freelance journalist and content editor for Russian and English magazines. She studied gemmology at The Gemmological Association of Great Britain (Gem-A) and founded her own blog devoted to fine jewellery in 2013 whilst working in jewellery retail. In the 7 years since, Katerina has featured an incredible range of jewels which are curated with her innate sense of style and taste. She champions the work of talented jewellers across the globe, from established brands to fledgling designers whom she has personally scouted. https://www.katerinaperez.com
I want to hear from you! What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To tell me and also to access show notes and images, go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault/inside-the-jewel-vault-with-katerina-perez
Produced by Lizzie Wingham. Engineered by Gareth Lewis.
Take a glimpse inside my sparkling brand new podcast!
I ask the great and the good of the jewellery world to put six special pieces from their lives and careers in jewellery into a fantasy Jewel Vault - ultimately choosing that one special piece to keep safe forever.
Hosted by me, expert jeweller and gemmologist, Jessica Cadzow-Collins. I hope you enjoy listening!
For more info, to contact me or to access show notes & images go to: https://www.juraster.com/blogs/insidethejewelvault
