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Salvador Dalí,
Étoile de Mer Brooch. The artist added surrealist details to all of his fine jewelry creations. For instance, this starfish has branches inexplicably sprouting from the body and includes two butterfly pins that were conceived as part of the design. Photo by Jake Armour, Armour Photography.
Among the many upgrades to the formerly dated space, last renovated in 1976, is a new exhibition gallery that will host special exhibitions.
The inaugural show, “Beautiful Creatures: Jewelry Inspired by the Animal Kingdom,” is curated by the jewelry historian Marion Fasel and features 104 piece of jewelry made over the past 150 years essentially, since the museum’s founding in 1869.
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There are a quite few headliners leading the June 8 Magnificent Jewels sale at Christie’s such as the “Dancing Sun” (the polished version of this diamond). But while those items claim the spotlight, a certain kind of collector may be inclined to quietly slip into a small little corner of the action: 20 or so jewels and objects by JAR (lots 136–154).
Also known as Joel Arthur Rosenthal, the celebrated jeweler is without question one of the most important American voices designing today. (He never puts out a line or collection, as his workshop famously only produces a scant 70 pieces per year.) Diane von Furstenberg once called him the Fabergé of our time.