VERDURA: Yesterday and oh yes, Today!

By Katherine | November 10, 2017 |

If you’re at all a fan of jewelry, you’re certainly familiar with Verdura jewelry.  The super-brief version of the story is this: Duke Fulco di Verdura, a Sicilian aristocrat and lover of design and art in all forms, rose to great prominence in the mid-1920s when he began designing costume jewelry for fashion legend Coco…

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My love affair with fleas

By Katherine | September 19, 2015 |

  {at a flea market with my baby girl in Hamburg, Germany} It seems like I’ve read numerous magazine articles lately about collectors who have been going to flea markets since they were five years old. Or coveting their grandmothers’ jewelry from the age of six.  Could this be true?  What kindergartener even understands what…

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