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Jewelry For The Fickle. Flip Flop Necklaces by 100% GUMDROP.

They're cheeky, and yes, they're a little cheap looking, but they are fun. Flip flop necklaces are jewelry that gives you the option to change your mood (or to say one thing when you are really thinking another) with the twist of a chain.

Made for both children and adults, the gold-plated stainless steel and sterling silver necklaces have two words mounted on opposite sides of one chain with the clasp and hangtag in between them:

Words range in width, measuring roughly 3/4" each. All word and chain measurements are approximate and come in small (14") or large (16").

YES/NO:

HELLO/GOODBYE:

WHY/BECAUSE:

ANGEL/DEVIL:

SWEETIE/TROUBLE:

I LOVE YOU/GO AWAY:

From 100%Gumdrop whose products are designed in downtown NYC using sterling silver, stainless steel and dipped in wondrous 14K gold. Our products are lead free and are manufactured entirely in the great states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, USA.

Slightly overpriced at $50.00, you can buy them here.

A Handful Of Art. Rockin' Rings From The Klimt02 Gallery Exhibit In Barcelona.

above: Untitled ring by Karl Fritsch

If you are a fan of very unusual fine jewelry, then the Klimt02 Gallery collection from their 2010 exhibition in Barcelona will be right up your alley. A collection of fine jewelry by 26 international artists, the pendants, neckpieces, earrings, rings, objects, chains and more are really wearable sculpture rather than simply ornamentation for the body.

The Beauty & The Best
Klimt02 | Gallery, Barcelona presents a selection of 140 pieces from 26 international artists. The selection of works, presented through this 2010 collection, aims to involve you in the implicit concepts, messages, thoughts, ironies, questions, answers, transgressions and languages that have taken shape and have become physical beings.

Here are a few of their eye-popping ring designs (which are all available for purchase) from their Barcelona "Beauty And The Best" 2010 collection:

Microrings by Marc Monzo:

Avondvlinder ring by Ted Noten:

Capri Seaside by Dominique Labordery:

Capri Hillside by Dominique Labordery:

MY VIRTUAL ME ring by Dominique Labordery:

Platinum Groove by Dominique Labordery:

Biobringe by Peter Bauhuis:

Happy Family Mrs (silver) by Benjamin Lignel:

Happy Family Mrs (gold) by Benjamin Lignel:

L.N.32 by Benjamin Lignel:

Untitled ring by Karl Fritsch:

Diamond Purple ring by Helen Britton:

Scull (sic) Ring by Helen Britton:

As they describe the 2010 Beauty and The Best collection on their site:
Klimt02 presents a selection of essential and benchmark jewels in contemporary jewellery. We wish to give you the chance as receivers to feel the emotion involved in appreciating a work of art, thus completing the artistic act.

These jewels incorporate different levels of language: tradition, innovation, history, present, words, sounds, notes, gaps, orbits and connections… as an exquisite way of discovering and understanding reality. These jewels deserve our attention: something is happening.

We are not striving for any kind of originality, trend or discovery but rather we simply wish to state that every single piece in the collection involves a high degree of creation with which we wish to address you as receivers of the message. We offer receivers and request of them the possibility of exercising choice, their selective affinity.

These pieces tell us how we understand things today. This is their contemporary nature. The creator, the artist or the jeweller is a catalyser of our reality.

Beauty is something more than ornamental; in this case it is the coming together of what is good, well made and essential. The Best, for us and now for you as well, is the selection of jewels on the basis of which to start to think and feel the best.

shop for all the above rings here.

Boucheron Celebrates 150 Years With Some Serious Goodies

2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the Parisian jeweler, The House of Boucheron, and to celebrate they have created many unusual, special and limited edition items. Here are just a few.

Above: The Reflet XL Limited Edition Watch:
"Our 150th anniversary has been the opportunity to revisit the Reflet watch, which rose to fame thanks to a system of interchangeable bracelets for which Boucheron filed the first patent in 1947. The limited-edition Reflet XL is intended for men of sophisticated taste who appreciate beauty, and for collectors. It revisits a modern classic with its imposing 45mm case, the largest Boucheron has ever made, and the unique oscillating weight by Girard-Perregaux."--- Boucheron CEO, Jean-Christophe Bédos,

Above: The Hommage de Boucheron watch by luxury horologist Richard Mille

And for the women:

Above: These new Ellipses Anniversaire Watches are made in conjunction with Girard-Perregaux for the 150th anniversary. Available in white gold or pink gold, in strictly special editions with the following stones:

Versions: Round, white gold, 119 diamonds (1.643 carat) and 52 blue sapphires (1.16 carat)
Round, white gold, 77 diamonds (0.975 carat) and 64 yellow and orange sapphires (1.18 carat)
Round, pink gold, 35 diamonds (0.52 carat), 85 blue sapphires and 51 pink sapphires (2.60 carats)
Square, pink gold, 191 diamonds (1.68 carat)

A series of Vertu phones (there are 7 in all):

Above: A collaboration with Vertu resulted in the Signature Python and Signature Cobra mobile phones

According to Boucheron CEO, Jean-Christophe Bédos, they "decided to celebrate this anniversary with Boucheron Enchanteur, a collection of Fine Jewellery that is a hymn to 150 years of history, expertise, sensuality and daring. This collection, which took over 12,000 hours to complete, is the quintessence of the talent and skill of Boucheron’s artisan-jewellers. Inspired by our seven founding values, it is a collection of seven parures on the themes of daring, magic, sensuality, mystery, danger, curiosity and gourmandise. After being presented in Paris, this Fine Jewellery collection will travel the world, visiting Moscow, Tokyo, Hong Kong, the Côte d’Azur, London and Dubai."

The pieces are show below, in sketch form on the left and final form on the right:

To commemorate the occasion, there's even a chocolate snake necklace topped off with a 20.08 carat fancy brown tinted yellow diamond.

A collaboration with Parisian Chocolatier La Maison du Chocolat yielded this necklace that plays with Boucheron's commonly used snake motif. The necklace is coated and decorated with real chocolate which covers the chocolate gold skeleton.