HeyJaredPrecious Things
Notes on antique, vintage and modern jewellery by Beth Dawson
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Jewellery, Love and Status in Sense and Sensibility (opens the original)
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The world of Sense and Sensibility is one in which appearances matter. A young woman’s clothes, manners, accomplishments, and connections all helped establish her place in society, and all this mattered most in her hunt for a husband. Jewellery was part of this constructed appearance, communicating not only wealth and social standing but also personal relationships and virtue.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aG-0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr
Autumn Art Fairs in London (opens the original)
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Over the next few weeks, London’s museums, galleries and exhibition spaces fill up with fairs spanning everything from contemporary jewellery and antique furniture to fine art and design. There are rather a lot to keep track of, so I’ve put together a simple list of the ones in my diary this autumn.Goldsmiths’ Fair22nd September-4th OctoberThe obvious starting point for jewellery lovers. Held at Goldsmiths’ Hall, the fair brings together independent jewellers and silversmiths working in Britain
Elsa Peretti and the Beauty of Simple Things (opens the original)
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I’ve always loved Elsa Peretti’s jewellery. Her designs are simple without ever being boring, and she takes inspiration from the simplest of things - a bean, a bone, a bottle – turning them into something beautiful. More than fifty years after she began designing for Tiffany & Co., many of her pieces still feel very modern, worn today by women in their twenties through to their sixties and beyond. For the next instalment in my series on women who shaped jewellery, I wanted to look more closely a
Back to School: Pencils, Pens and Paper in Jewellery (opens the original)
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I haven’t had a reason to go ‘back to school’ for a few years, but I don’t think the urge to buy a new set of notebooks or a particularly nice pen ever quite leaves us. I think the Substack girls will understand when I say there is there something very appealing about beautiful stationery, and it seems this fascination is nothing new. For decades jewellers have turned the everyday tools of reading and writing into precious objects of their own.Some were practical, such as gold propelling pencils
What the Closure of the British Academy of Jewellery Means for British Craftsmanship (opens the original)
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This week, the British Academy of Jewellery announced the closure of its higher education courses with immediate effect, leaving up to 220 students facing uncertainty over their studies and future careers.The immediate consequences are obviously the most pressing for the affected students, but I fear this closure says something much bigger about the state of the British jewellery industry. What does the loss of another specialist training provider mean for the next generation of the jewellery tr
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