Exotic Formosa

The goldsmith and sculptor Ruan Weng Mong is a mediator between different worlds. Born in Taiwan, trained as a goldsmith in Germany and having served as the President of the Goldsmiths’ Guild in Nuremberg, he is at home on several continents. His artworks elegantly wed his sensibility for materials and appreciation of gemstones and metal […]

Simply Brilliant

Simply put, jewelry of the 1960s and 1970s was revolutionary. If the 1950s were demure and controlled, the 1960s became an era of youthful rebellion and radical cultural change – and a new style of jewelry was part of that zeitgeist. Rock and roll, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy assassinations, the civil rights and women’s […]