Industry Veteran Caps a 40-Year Jewelry Career, Will Continue Mentoring the Next Generation Through WJA and MENTORO​.

JA members met with Senators Durbin and Collins and Rep. Jim Jordan on Sept. 15 to press for diamond tariff relief and the CORCA bill.

I CAN’T TAKE CREDIT FOR identifying Nicola Peltz Beckham’s pear-shaped emerald and diamond drop earrings at the 2026 Venice ...

THE RING CAME from a website. The watch band shipped from somewhere overseas. The loose diamond was an “amazing deal.” And now all of it is sitting on your counter — because guess who they trust to ...

Brain Squad survey finds nearly two-thirds of independent jewelers shut down for a few days each year — and most say customers barely blink. Most independent jewelers are closing up shop for a few ...

It's not a wow, it's not an add-on — it's a planned team move that uses curiosity to put a diamond in the client's hand when ...

This story is part of INSTORE’s lead story, “Radical Reinvention”, featured in the December 2025 edition. Rebecca Rau Jewels and M.S. Rau Jewelry Gallery AFTER REBECCA RAU, FOURTH-GENERATION antiques ...

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT? As a couple of our entrants noted, this gemstone’s very name teases those following the trail of clues. The gemological beauty in question was hiddenite, the emerald-colored ...

JUNE’S MYSTERY DESIGNER is known for her deliberately slow process, with each rock crystal hand-carved and each setting individually forged. We suspect it took similarly deliberate, deductive thinking ...

I didn’t train at a jewelry bench — I studied art and philosophy, worked in couture circles, and taught myself technique through craft. With my partner Pierre Jeannet, I opened an atelier on Place ...

A FASHION RING doesn’t come with a proposal built in, so independent jewelers have to supply their own reason for a customer to buy one. In a recent INSTORE Brain Squad survey, we asked readers for ...

The collaboration pairs rare jadeite in colors including lavender, pink and orange with reclaimed woods and techniques ...