Editor-in-chief of JCK magazine, specializing in jewelry, watches, travel and the occasional essay. Based in LA, NYC & a 747!
JCK Jewelry Agenda: Week Of May 29
Tomorrow is Memorial Day. If you’ll be traveling for the long weekend, pass the time by queuing up some jewelry-centric podcasts, including one to...
Christopher Designs To Debut Lab-Grown Diamond Line At Luxury 2022
Christopher Slowinski, the jewelry designer and manufacturer behind New York-based Christopher Designs, is best known for his proprietary Crisscut...
What a Retailer Wants: Nicole Hurdle on JCK Las Vegas 2022
For the past 75 years, Hurdle’s Jewelry in Boulder, Colo., has epitomized the notion of a family jeweler. Family-owned and -operated since 1947,...
JCK Jewelry Agenda: Week Of May 22
This week’s goings-on are united by a single theme: provenance. The record of ownership that follows a jewel—be it a ring set in Fairmined gold,...
Sylvie’s Gary Levine On The Brand’s “Evolution”
If you’ll be at the Luxury show in Las Vegas this year (it opens June 8 to invited guests and June 10 for all JCK attendees), stop by the Sylvie...
All the Newness You Can Expect At JCK Las Vegas 2022
The 2022 edition of JCK Las Vegas is almost upon us. The show opens Friday, June 10. (Meanwhile, JCK’s sister show, Luxury, opens June 8 to invited...
Spotlight on 3 New Collections Debuting at JCK Las Vegas 2022
As the JCK Las Vegas and Luxury shows approach, buyers are making their lists and checking them twice. (more…)
Yael Designs’ New Tesserae Collection Is All About That Look
Named after the small blocks of stone, tile, glass, or other materials used to create a mosaic, the new Tesserae collection from San...
JCK Jewelry Agenda: Week Of May 8
Magnificent Jewels auction season kicks off this week with a blockbuster sale at Sotheby’s Geneva. For art jewelry lovers, however, the surrealist...
JCK Las Vegas Showgoers, Are You Ready for an Experience?
Matt Villano is JCK’s point man in Las Vegas. Although he’s based in California’s Sonoma County, he travels to the Nevada desert every month to...