Word: taillac
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French jewelry designer Marie-Hélène de Taillac has agreed to take me on an insider's gem-shopping adventure here in Jaipur, where many of the world's colored stones?emeralds from Colombia, rubies from Burma, aquamarines from Brazil?are cut and polished before they are shipped to such stores as Tiffany, Wal-Mart and neighborhood jewelers. Two flights up, there are shoes everywhere?loafers, sandals and dainty, beaded dance slippers. Double doors draped with wilted marigolds lead to De Taillac's atelier. Lit by stark winter sunlight, the room's entire floor is laid with mattresses covered...
...Taillac pounces on the envelopes on her table. "When I get the packets, it's like sweets," she says. She unfolds rainbow moonstones, sparkling rose-quartz disks, aquamarines, mirrorlike smoky quartz ("the stone of depressed people") and a mound of sprinkles identified as multicolored sapphires. "Here's an order," she says. "And here's a problem: the buyer has indicated that for some items she would like two. These are stones; they occur in nature. I cannot get the same twice. But Justine will try." Justine Rumeau, De Taillac's right hand of six years, is already sorting through citrines...