Topaz is the brilliant birthstone for November, and resonates with the zodiacsign, Scorpio. Both the stone and the sign appear hard, but we recommendalways handling with care. You may think of the jewel as tawny in color, orperhaps the heat-treated blue shades, but we search the earth for the rar...

Alexandrite is the color-chameleon of the precious gem world. This rare precious gemstone has the capacity to switch from red to green, or sometimes from blue to purple, depending on the light-source. It’s a dynamic, modern choice that was once used to test the food and drink of Czars for poison....

Halloween and Dia de los Muertos occur at a time of year which many ancient cultures around the world held holy. Why? Because they believed that during the shortening days between the Autumnal Equinox and the Winter Solstice (meaning, right now), the barrier between the world of the living and th...

'Tis the season to shop for all manner of shiny things. And even as you weigh your choices...oh, what to choose? Pink Sapphire or Pink Tourmaline or Pink Zircon?...leafing through the pages of these two spectacular art-books about contemporary High Jewelry is sure to give you inspo. Zaavy, who cr...

Color is our passion. And while a white-hot diamond solitaire is a traditional choice for an engagement ring, we're telling you that there are juicier, wilder, more interesting precious gemstone choices. Shocking hot pinks. Baby pinks. Princely purples. Electric Greens. Neon oranges. Cosmic blues...

Tourmaline: its name means "many colors", ranging from ripe watermelon-pink through the spectrum of teal, turquoise and deep forest greens. According to ancient Egyptian legend, Tourmaline’s astonishing array of colors is evidence that the stones travelled from the earth’s heart to the sun, formi...