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In 2019, Steve and Melissa Quick, the husband-and-wife owners of Steve Quick Jeweler in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, decided to consolidate their three stores into a single, downsized location. Little did they know how prescient that decision would be.
“The big motivating factor was us being able to control the experience that someone has walking into our store,” Melissa (pictured) tells
JCK.
When the pandemic hit, the Quicks trimmed the store schedule from being open seven days to five. Now that the quarantines and lockdowns of 2020 are fading into memory (touch wood!), they’ve decided to stick with the five-day schedule. “I now have Sundays and Mondays off, which is really nice,” Melissa says. “I’m not working as much as I used to, but probably not working as much as I should.”
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As the Roaring 2020s kick off in earnest this year (last year, with its quarantines and lockdowns, wasn’t even a dress rehearsal), the art deco revival that we saw coming last fall is currently in full swing. And so are the geometric silhouettes we associate with the era.
In jewelry, the vogue for sharp edges is evident in the slew of new fancy-shaped styles that lean on offbeat cuts such as kites, shields, pentagons, hexagons, trillions, and marquises to make their, um, point. Often paired with other fancy cuts, the styles highlighted below use the combination of shapes including some curvy rounds and pears to transform what might otherwise be a basic style (say, a hoop earring or an eternity band) into a piece of distinction.