Archive for the ‘Exhibitions’ Category
Naked Hope Diamond on display for first time
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
The Hope Diamond is on public display as an unset stone for the first time ever to mark its 50th anniversary at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
The infamous 45.52-carat deep-blue diamond - blue to the naked eye with its trace amounts of metalloid element, boron - exhibits red phosphorence under UV light.
The classified IIB diamond was donated to the Washington based museum by Harry Winston Jewellers who are preparing… Continue reading
‘Sixty Diamond and Many More Exhibition’ opens
Friday, September 18th, 2009
The ‘Sixty Diamonds and Many More’ exhibition has opened at the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum in Israel and will showcase the results of a diamond jewellery design competition held by the Israel Diamond Institute Group of Companies (IDI) to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary.
The 11 short-listed designs will be displayed in the expo curated by museum art director, Yehuda Kassif.
“The jewellery designs showed many different influences, some of them surprising,” Kassif… Continue reading