We hope your season has been bright, your sales have been strong, and your calendar for the next week is blessedly empty. May we suggest a show to stream, a film to see, a book to read, and, if you’re visiting New Orleans over the holiday, an exhibition not to miss! Merry Christmas!

WATCH

The Gilded Age season 2 on HBO (ongoing)

Didn’t watch season 1 of the Julian Fellowes–created historical drama? No worries—nothing happened. And not much more happens on season 2, except for a brief but swoon-worthy romance between spinster Ada (played by Cynthia Nixon) and the new-to-town Reverend Forte (Robert Sean Leonard with a perfect chowdah-thick Boston accent). Simply put: Come for the jewelry, stay for the jewelry. There’s not a single episode where Carrie Coon’s new-moneyed matriarch Bertha Russell isn’t dripping in diamonds. We’ve spotted her in at least four different tiaras in just eight episodes. What we wouldn’t give to raid her jewelry box!

Wonka (ongoing)

While the new film prequel about the famous fictional candy maker Willy Wonka, starring heartthrob (and jewelry aficionado) Timothée Chalamet, doesn’t focus on our trade, you’ll want to see the musical in order to appreciate the playful, occasionally outlandish fruit- and chocolate-themed jewels and accessories in the Willy Wonka x Fossil collection. Candy is dandy, after all!

READ

King of Diamonds: Harry Winston, the Definitive Biography of an American Icon (ongoing)

Written by Harry Winston’s eldest son, Ronald Winston, together with co-author William Stadiem, King of Diamonds, according to The Adventurine, “is an engaging psychological profile of a man who never stopped reaching for brighter and bigger stars and stones. It reveals details about a competitive family rife with backstabbing, extraordinarily glamorous experiences, almost unimaginable successes as well as failures.” Sounds like the perfect holiday read to us.

ATTEND

Erté x Art Deco Exhibition at M.S. Rau in New Orleans: Through Jan. 3 (in person)

Presented in collaboration with Galerie Ary Jan in Paris, “Erté and the Era of Art Deco” at New Orleans antique dealer M.S. Rau features more than 160 original gouaches by Romain de Tirtoff, known by the pseudonym Erté, a Russian-born French artist and designer often called “the father of Art Deco.” Along with the sketches, visitors will see period jewelry from Cartier and Raymond Yard, glass from René Lalique, clocks from Tiffany & Co., and more.

Top: Pansy earrings with 0.87 ct. t.w. tanzanite in 18k yellow gold, $4,695; Lauren K

 

• Subscribe to the JCK News Daily
• Subscribe to the JCK Special Report
• Follow JCK on Instagram: @jckmagazine
• Follow JCK on X: @jckmagazine
• Follow JCK on Facebook: @jckmagazine