Subsequent week, a brand new promoting exhibition arrives at Sotheby’s Palm Seashore gallery, providing South Florida jewellery collectors a novel alternative to buy a choice of jewels by some extremely coveted designers (and longtime JCK editor favorites), together with Alice Cicolini, Lydia Courteille, Daniela Villegas, Loren Nicole, Marlo Laz, Renna, Guita M, Nina Runsdorf, Almasika, and Prounis.
Encompassing greater than 130 items representing the work of 24 feminine designers, the sale is being produced in collaboration with The Stax, a brand new enterprise billing itself as a full-service jewellery and elegance advisory. “We work like artwork advisers for jewellery, advising and steering our shoppers to each put money into heritage jewelers and up to date expertise to make future heirlooms that come from the guts,” says Victoria Lampley, who based The Stax with Laurel Pantin, a former trend and elegance editor (at InStyle, Coveteur, and different publications). “We additionally assist with sourcing something from a classic signet ring to creating a totally bespoke engagement ring, whereas fortunately advising on resets of current household jewellery and/or styling their present jewellery assortment.”
It’s the primary time The Stax has partnered with Sotheby’s. Since launching the model final 12 months, Lampley says she and her workforce have additionally labored on organizing bespoke commissions from Taffin, Solange Azagury-Partridge, Elizabeth Gage, Renato Cipullo, and Belperron, whereas fostering new relationships with “a blended bag of each new-ish and esteemed established jewelers such Jenna Katz, Matturi, Akaila Reid, Arielle Ratner, Sherman Area, Sophie Keegan, Courtney Leidy, and Rebecca Pinto, amongst others.”
Trying forward, The Stax has shifted to a extra hybrid advisory mannequin. “We work with our non-public shoppers to advise on every little thing from sourcing extraordinary items to commissioning absolutely customized bespoke items with the proper jeweler and in addition work alongside a choice of retained jewellery shoppers to advise them on every little thing from model storytelling and collaborations to social technique and enterprise growth. We additionally fashion campaigns and might help with trunk exhibits and fostering strategic relationships with showrooms and the press.”
The Sotheby’s exhibition is an in-person solely affair, on view and shoppable at Sotheby’s Palm Seashore gallery April 4–10.
Because the sale is timed with Mom’s Day buying in thoughts, a portion of the proceeds will profit the charity Mom Lovers, which helps to battle the maternal well being care disaster in america, the place, in accordance with a press launch accompanying the sale, ladies are twice as prone to die in childbirth in the present day than they have been 20 years in the past. Moreover, america has the one rising maternal mortality fee within the developed world.
The featured jewels have been curated to inform a narrative that pays homage to feminine expertise. And for many who can’t attend the sale in individual, however are eager for indicators of hotter climate, the items highlighted beneath (and up high) completely seize the most effective of the Palm Seashore space’s colours, surroundings, and bon vivant way of life. Dive in!
Two Deep Sea Poisson brooches in 18k gold with diamonds and fancy sapphires, $72,128; Lydia Courteille
Amphora earrings in yellow gold with garnet and coral, $6,800; Prounis
Universum cuff in yellow gold with tsavorite, $24,000; Almasika
Palm Seashore bracelet in 18k gold with diamonds, striped agate, chalcedony, and rose quartz, $8,900; Renna
Murano Cylinder earrings in 22k gold, tanzanite, and vintage Murano glass, $14,800; Loren Nicole
