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...GIRL'S GUIDE TO BUYING DIAMONDS: How to Choose, Evaluate, and Buy the Diamond You Want By Randi Molofsky Quarry Books Everything shoppers should know?including the old cut, color, carat and clarity issues?is hit upon in this easy-to-read manual about a girl's best friend...
Hardy slips a stunning silver-and-diamond pavé cuff off his wife's wrist and holds it up to the light. It looks as if some silver-fingered Midas brushed against a bamboo trellis covered in climbing flowers. ?In 200 years,? he says, ?you will see this on the block at Sotheby's.? He is not speaking of the design but of the exquisite craftsmanship. One of the great luxuries of working in Bali is the ability to draw from a tradition of jewelry making that goes back thousands of years?and the ability to lure...
Away from the family atelier, Mendel experimented with fur in ways that defied the teachings of his father. ?My father was like a diamond cutter,? he says. ?He excelled at what he did, but it didn't have any connection to the outside world.? Gilles created coats in which he sheared off all the hair so that they felt and looked like cashmere; he cut swaths of mink into pieces and sewed them back together in loose, fragile strips that offered neither bulk nor insulation. ?I was the only furrier who sold fur that didn...
...Every time I open one of these?and, you see, I open them in a very special way?and I look at what's inside, I get excited,? he says, his neatly groomed fingers swiftly unfolding a piece of paper to reveal a yellow cushion-cut diamond worth more than $1 million. ?Even after all these years, it excites me because I never know what's going to be inside,? he says. ?What I see at first sight is what I react to. First impression is the best impression...
...DAVID HO 1996 Director, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center...