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...including 500 trees and an artificial lake with swans, more than $10 million worth of objets d'art were on sale. Rarities included the child-sized billiard table given to King Louis XIV when he was twelve years old, and an art nouveau serpentine bracelet designed for Sarah Bernhardt...
...going to chicken out." Says Boston Physician Dennis Slone: "When I look around and see the demands of the people for goods, I feel there is nothing to worry about. Anyone who drops out of the market now is making a real mistake." Says St. Louis Chemicals Executive Brooks Bernhardt, 51: "My wife and I own 14 common stocks, plus shares in a mutual fund. We've put these away for our retirement. Recently, they've all gone down a little bit, but whether the market goes up or down in four months or two years doesn't make that...
...kept the whole glittering Golconda-the 51-carat diamond ring, the Sarah Bernhardt bracelet, the seven-strand baroque pearls and all the rest -stashed in a Hattie Carnegie dress box camouflaged with old lingerie under the bed. When the horrified insurance company protested, nonagenarian Cosmetics Czarina Helena Rubinstein had the jumble of jewels packed up in manila envelopes and squirreled away under E for emeralds and R for rubies in a locked filing cabinet. No need for all the fuss, though. Three hoods tried to rob her a year before she died last spring, and elfin Helena angrily screamed them...
...bizarre settings. In place of the perfect jewel, the flawed gem was exploited, the odd-shaped pearl stressed for its singularity and enamels and glass were often preferred to gold. It took courage to wear these creations; it took, in fact, a new kind of woman. The intrepid Sarah Bernhardt, with her loose-flowing hair and cameo beauty, filled the bill...
Loans for Ladies. Greatest of all the Belle Époque jewelers, and Bernhardt's longtime favorite, was René Lalique, who, like today's haut couturiers, designed jewels to suit the individual's personality. While working for Chez de Stape, then Paris' leading fashion jeweler, Lalique began experimenting with enamels, transforming glass with oxides in his own kitchen. In mounting stones, he turned from semiprecious tortoise shell to ordinary horn because he found the color of tortoise too irregular. The innovation was an immediate success; overnight, horn became a luxury in Paris...