Almost every ruby on the market has passed through a furnace to lift its colour. These have not. A single unheated stone of good saturation is a find; twenty-one carats of them, matched closely enough to sit side by side along a wrist, is a different proposition altogether — and that matching is what this bracelet really is.
A deliberate mismatch, and a very elegant one. One earring opens in blue at the ear, the other in red. At the base the two change places, so the blue closes in red and the red in blue — a colour that crosses between the ears and completes only when the pair is worn together.
Every stone is a square, and every square is turned. Set on the diagonal, each becomes a diamond shape, and set together they compose a lattice with air at every junction — so the earring hangs as a fine mesh, light passing through it as freely as it comes off the stones. That lattice is where the Art Deco lies.
A rose seen from directly above, at the moment it opens completely. Marquise diamonds radiate from the centre as petals do — pointed at either end, fullest through the middle, which is the shape a petal already has. They are set at graduating heights, so the flower rises from the finger rather than resting flat upon it, and the light…