Thoughts on jewellery, stones, and meaning. Published infrequently. Only when there is something worth saying.
Lab diamonds are marketed as the responsible alternative. Conflict-free, sustainable, modern. It is a clean story. It is also an incomplete one. On the human cost that nobody in the industry is talking about.
Read the note →On what happened to the emerald market when the industry failed to draw the line in time. A preface to a more current conversation.
Read the note →The name is French for you and me. Not you and your twin. Somewhere along the way, the market kept the name and lost the meaning. We are saying something.
Read the note →A note on Design Notes.
This is not a blog. There is no schedule, no content calendar, no obligation to post. Design Notes appears when we have something to say. About a design, a stone, an idea, or something the industry has got quietly wrong. If you are reading this, you probably care about the same things we do.