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Black Tie Affair: The Best Jewellery Looks of the BAFTAs Red Carpet 2025
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In Conversation at GemGenève: What Constitutes Exceptional Design?
Can you pinpoint exactly the combination of factors that make you stop and do a double-take when shopping for jewellery? Could you write a list? It’s incredibly difficult to do so, which is why it was a great way to kick off this GemGenève session! Vivienne said she responds to a jewel that “captures its […]
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Rule-Breakers: The Most Iconic British Jewellers of the 1960s
Bored of the reproductions of Victorian and Art Deco jewellery, John Donald entered London’s jewellery scene in the early 1960s looking to disrupt. Being confined by what he could afford at the time, Donald created pieces with gold rods, which were less expensive than gold bars. This decision would lead to his signature geometric motif. Having […]
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Immortalising Memories: The Deeply Personal Creations of Kyan Jewelry
“Jewellery is an emotional carrier that connects you with your essence and your true self,” - Kyan Jewelr
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A&E Interviews: Asian Jewellery Architect Selim Mouzannar
Lebanese jewellery architect Selim Mouzannar has a spent be in conflict twenty quintuplet years 1 his sumptuousness jewellery council house and green about the gills it chomp through a wideranging success.
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Mouzannar, from one generation to the next
At a time when Selim Mouzannar has just welcomed his first grandson in Lebanon – a country once again beset by war – he reflects on how the company has passed down the generations, and the integral part this has played in the story of his brand.
By Sandrine Merle.
A childhood spent in the jewelers’ souk
Beirut’s historic souks are now but a memory. The bulldozers of real estate developers in the 1980s, followed by the civil war of 2006, took their toll on the former Turkish army stables, with their ancient vaults, large gates and immense aisles lined with stores where visitors once thronged. They were the most popular haunt for visiting foreigners and, during Lebanon’s glory years by pilgrims of all stripes, Christians, Jews and Muslims travelling to Jerusalem and Mecca. This is where Selim’s story began. “I come from a very old family of jewelers: in the 19th century, my family of Greek Christian Byzantine Catholics, originally from Damascus, maintained close relations with the government of the Ottoman Empire, whose currency they minted. In 1860, when an outbreak of violence erupted against the city’s Christian quarter, my great-grandfather and his brother fled to Beirut.R