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EAU VIVE, Wet & Wild Boucheron

Wear water formations directly on the body with Boucheron’s extravagant and excessively wet High Jewelry collection, Or Bleu.

SPARKLIN’ with Moët

A series of bejeweled objects in Memories of Tomorrow: A Moët & Chandon Exhibition, are crafted by Parisian embroidery studio Atelier Baqué Molinié and stand as scintillating tributes to champagne, history, and the good old glamour of sparkle.

Ask Agate: Is it gauche to wear too much jewelry?

Is too much of a good thing, still a good thing? Agate casts doubt on the merits of minimalism.

Walls of White

Dinosaurs and champagne. On the surface, not much in common; go deeper, and there’s chalk, the extensive limestone deposits underground in Champagne, formed some 60-80 million years ago when dinosaurs thrived on earth.

Niche Champagnes

Never arrive empty handed: what to bring and what to say as five notable “grower champagnes” make gifting an entertaining conversation.

Shape Shifter

A necklace with three detachable brooches from 1950s Cartier is for cut-and-paste play with its Garland-style French classicism.

What to Wear – What to Drink

It's BOUCHERON, baby, on a High Jewelry holographic color trip—like a prism, catching light in every single hue. Now, that is a necklace.

What to Drink – What to Wear

This is some Dom P. on an incredible, futuristic packaging trip, containing a “flashy” Champagne: the Rosé Vintage Gold 2000, with a Boucheron jewel to pair.

Ask Agate – Help for a Bachelor

A young man asks for tips and tactics for entertaining at home with Champagne, notably with a need to please the ladies. Agate advises...

Vine to Wine

The craftsmanship story behind a bottle of Champagne is told in the stained glass windows of Reims Cathedral, recounting what is, ultimately, a local tradition.

RISE: Champagne as Sculpture

A sculpture to symbolize the vivacity of real Champagne is nothing but 200 dancing mirrors appearing to rise before the Town Hall of Reims, France.

Silhouettes

Shall it be a flûte, coupe or glass? In what to serve Champange, according to prerogatives of taste, style, sociability, and that inimitable bubble lift.

Trilogy

Three Champagnes, three grand vintage years, each and all a portrait of the light that reared their grapes in the summers of 2015, 2006 and 1999.

Getting Stoned

Meet Fabien the stone dealer and enter the private world of stone dealing, where—with him, at least—color stones are cult.

Ice Cold

It’s time for a glacial diamond drop from London jeweller David Morris, with some brilliant-cut classic flawless whites.

Ask Agate: Can Jewelry Save My Marriage?

A troubled reader on the verge of divorce asks whether an important gift of jewelry could save her marriage. Agate serves it straight, no mixers.

RE: Repossi

While art inspires much jewelry creation, at Repossi the Antifer collection inspires artists in turn with its distinctive form, now 10 years since the first design.