Editor of JCK Magazine, specializing in jewelry, watches, travel and the occasional essay. Based in LA, NYC & a 747!
New Met Exhibition Will Force You to Think Deeply About Jewelry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ambitious new exhibition, "Jewelry: The Body Transformed," opens today. If you’re looking for insights into...
American Watchmaking’s Red-Hot Season
When I first wrote about hints of a renaissance in American watchmaking, in a March 2012 article for the New York Times, Shinola wasn’t a...
Overheard at the 2018 GIA Symposium
If you couldn’t make it to the 2018 GIA International Gemological Symposium, held in Carlsbad, Calif., Oct. 7–9, never fear. I sat through as...
3 Predictions for the Jewelry Business in 2019 and Beyond
At the conclusion of last week’s 2018 GIA Symposium, I looked at my laptop and realized I’d taken 23 pages of single-spaced notes starting the...
The Buzz on Jewelry’s West (Best?) Coast
It’s that time of year again. The nexus of the jewelry industry shifts from New York City to the West (dare I say best?!) Coast for one week every...
From the Editor: September–October 2018
The year was 1994.
I was a junior in college and working as a waitress at a pseudo-Mexican restaurant called Cabo Cabo Cabo in Los Angeles’...
Causes to Celebrate: The JCK Industry Fund
After two decades of quietly giving back to the trade, the JCK Industry Fund is going public with a renewed commitment to funding projects that...
The Florida Project: JIS October Returns to Miami Beach
Barring a force majeure, such as last year’s Hurricane Irma, Reed Exhibitions’ Jewelers International Showcase (JIS) October will return to its...
This Is What Stood Out When I Studied JCK’s 150-Year-Old Archives
Once again, I spent all of last week in New York City, paging through JCK’s back issues—contained in more than 150 Oxford English...
Follow That Stone: Ressigeac Gems’ Traceability Project
In June 2006, I published a story in the International Herald Tribune—later rebranded the International New York Times—about the jewelry...