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Milan Through A Jeweler’s Eye: The Details That...
A jewelry designer's personal guide to Milan — from a daughter's Lake Como wedding to the Duomo's rooftop to the secret courtyards hiding behind unmarked doorways. How the city's hidden...
Milan Through A Jeweler’s Eye: The Details That...
A jewelry designer's personal guide to Milan — from a...
Behind the Design: Capturing the Architecture o...
The story behind one of Kirsten Dexter's most personal designs — how a mother's walks down Madison Avenue with her son and daughter became a wearable talisman inspired by St....
Behind the Design: Capturing the Architecture o...
The story behind one of Kirsten Dexter's most personal designs...
The Window That Survived: How a Family Trip to ...
I wasn't looking for it. That's the part people don't understand when they ask how a jewelry company starts. They imagine a business plan, a flash of entrepreneurial ambition, a...
The Window That Survived: How a Family Trip to ...
I wasn't looking for it. That's the part people don't understand when they ask how a jewelry company starts. They imagine a business plan, a flash of entrepreneurial ambition, a...
The Wanderer's Guide to Gifting: Travel-Inspire...
For those who collect memories, not things—except when those things tell a story. There's something magical about jewelry that carries a sense of place. A pendant that recalls the rose...
The Wanderer's Guide to Gifting: Travel-Inspire...
For those who collect memories, not things—except when those things tell a story. There's something magical about jewelry that carries a sense of place. A pendant that recalls the rose...
The Iron Door That Stopped Me in Barcelona
An outer ring. An inner circle floating inside it. Crossing needles holding the whole structure in tension like a compass suspended in midair. I remember thinking, this is already a...
The Iron Door That Stopped Me in Barcelona
An outer ring. An inner circle floating inside it. Crossing...
Notre-Dame Was Still Beautiful: A Jeweler's Par...
Most tourists were mourning Notre-Dame. A jewelry designer saw something else entirely — a cathedral mid-reconstruction that was somehow more beautiful for being unfinished, and a rose window that became...
Notre-Dame Was Still Beautiful: A Jeweler's Par...
Most tourists were mourning Notre-Dame. A jewelry designer saw something...
From Stone to Gold: How the Rose Window of Como...
A trip to Lake Como for my daughter's wedding led me to the Duomo di Como — the last Gothic cathedral built in Italy. Its magnificent rose window, with a...
From Stone to Gold: How the Rose Window of Como...
A trip to Lake Como for my daughter's wedding led...
The Sound That Became a Jewel: The Story Behind...
The Kiawah Palms earrings started with a sound — palm fronds catching the breeze on our family's back deck on Kiawah Island. Here's the story behind one of our most...
The Sound That Became a Jewel: The Story Behind...
The Kiawah Palms earrings started with a sound — palm...
Before the Cathedrals, There Was Nature: The St...
Most people know us for the cities — Barcelona, Paris, Sicily. But before the cathedrals, there was nature. The Elements Collection is the other side of who I am: jewelry...
Before the Cathedrals, There Was Nature: The St...
Most people know us for the cities — Barcelona, Paris,...
The Alhambra’s Ceiling: How a Moorish Palace in...
How a ceiling in southern Spain taught me that the most complex patterns are built from the simplest shapes By Kirsten Dexter Some buildings you visit. The Alhambra, you enter...
The Alhambra’s Ceiling: How a Moorish Palace in...
How a ceiling in southern Spain taught me that the most complex patterns are built from the simplest shapes By Kirsten Dexter Some buildings you visit. The Alhambra, you enter...