"You cannot cry on the shoulder of a diamond, diamonds will not warm you at night, but they bring so much joy when the sun shines!" —said Elizabeth Taylor.

It is astonishing, however, that an antique jewel can warm us—and warm the soul. Perhaps because it is not so much about the stones and their value, but about the beauty and an anonymous talent: it carries within it the warmth of hands and know-how, concentrated in the material and the form. In the cut of a century ago—a different brilliance, a different way of capturing the light, have you noticed? Even the sun plays differently on it.

Antique jewelry is like reflections of light, miraculously preserved in family chests, where it has rested for centuries. And today, that light continues—amazing us, contemporaries, from a different perspective, in different rays of sunlight, with a new intensity.

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