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Jun
The complaint we hear most often does not come from brides. It comes from women five or ten years married, sitting across from us with a velvet box: I spent so much on this, and I have worn it once. It is an avoidable problem. A trousseau planned with a little discipline becomes the spine of a jewellery wardrobe for decades. Planned badly, it becomes locker inventory. Having helped a few hundred brides through this at Firuzeh Jaipur, here is what we have learned. Spend the Most on the Anchor, but Make It Work Harder The bridal necklace deserves the...
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11
Jun
There is a quality of light particular to uncut diamonds. It is softer than the hard sparkle of a brilliant cut, closer to candlelight, and once you have seen it you recognise it everywhere: in Mughal miniatures, in old family portraits, and lately on nearly every notable bride in the country. Our jadau workshops at Firuzeh Jaipur have not been this busy in years, and the orders are no longer only bridal. What Polki Actually Is Polki refers to the diamond itself, left essentially as nature made it. The stone is cleaved and lightly polished rather than faceted, then set...
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11
Jun
Jewellery was a language long before it was an asset class. Kings went into battle wearing rubies for courage. Sailors carried aquamarine. In India the idea went furthest of all: the navratna assigns nine gems to nine celestial bodies, so that a single ring becomes a small, wearable cosmology. Most of our clients at Firuzeh Jaipur don't buy stones for these reasons, at least not openly. But almost everyone, once the subject comes up, wants to know what their stone is supposed to mean. Emerald The green stone has stood for renewal and clear thinking in nearly every culture that...
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11
Jun
If you stand in Johari Bazaar around six in the evening, you can hear the trade before you see it. Shutters going up, the tap of a setter's hammer somewhere above a shopfront, two dealers arguing quietly over a parcel of sapphires. Jaipur has worked like this for close to three hundred years, and despite everything that has changed in the jewellery business, the world's coloured gemstones still pass through this city on their way to becoming something worth keeping. Firuzeh Jaipur was built here, and it could not have been built anywhere else. A City Designed Around Craft When...
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