The Journal

Notes from the bench.

Essays on stones, metal and the people who shape them — written by the atelier, not a marketing department.

Craft · 6 min

The Anatomy of a Solitaire

Six claws, a knife-edge band, and 1.5 millimetres of platinum: why the simplest ring is the hardest to make.

Stones · 5 min

Inclusions in an emerald are called its jardin — its garden. Learning to read them is learning to love the stone.

Style · 4 min

Candlelight is the most forgiving and the most demanding light there is. Dress for it accordingly.

Atelier · 7 min

Matching the thirty-nine pearls of an Aria strand took our buyers through four harvests and two hemispheres.

Materials · 5 min

Gold wears away; platinum merely moves. The metallurgy of the only metal that keeps every scratch.

Design · 8 min

Inside the collection that took cues from watchmaking: hidden springs, eleven-part articulation, and stones that tremble.