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Diamond rings were the top selling lots at Christie’s key Jewels Auction in New York on Tuesday, with two stick out jewels fetching over $1 million each.

The star sale was a ring with a 46.51 carat oval-cut middle stone flanked by two 1 carat pearl shaped diamonds.

The jewel, set in platinum, was knocked down for $4,226,500 a per carat price of nearly $91,000.

Another diamond and platinum ring, set with a 10.01 carat diamond and two slighter pearl shaped diamonds, went for $1,314,500.

A 19.22 carat emerald cut yellow diamond ring with a color grade of Fancy Light Yellow flanked by two trilliant cut diamonds sold for $458,500, and a colorless 10.42 carat emerald cut diamond ring was knocked down for $422,500.

While diamond rings dominated the sale, other jewels as well performed well, such as the pair of square cut yellow diamond earrings weighing over 17 carats each set in gold and platinum fetched $722,500.

In total, the Christie’s New York significant Jewels Sale brought earned over $11.7 million.

Bangalore-based jewellery designer Ria Joseph specializes in creating unique designs, which leave an everlasting impression. Her forte lies in creating recent silver jewellery with semi-precious stones. On a normal day, Ria Joseph begins her morning by teaching a demanding class of power yoga, before grabbing a saw blade with her gloved hands to manufacture jewellery- right from the melting and mixing to the molding and casting processes. Ria always wanted to do something in the creative field and her love for jewellery is what encouraged her to pursue jewellery manufacturing and design course at the Indian Institute of Jewellery (IIJ), Mumbai.
Ria creates modified and affordable silver jewellery with semi-precious stones that has a suggestion of indo-western influence. Her inspirations come from nature and its a mixture of forms. Since modern jewellery is just as fashionable as contemporary designs, she offers her clients both. Her business line is all about classic pieces while the fashion design line has jewellery that can be worn for parties and weddings. While the business collection goes heavy on semi-precious stones, the couture line liberally uses gold and silver.

She also offers session and custom design services, handcrafting inspiring one-of-a-kind items to meet her clients’ specific needs, she says “I also customize jewellery and it’s a different knowledge as the outcome is always something interesting. Ria supplies her jewellery to four other cities and she still showcases her collections at exhibitions, “My jewellery is supplied to stores in Hyderabad, Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta. I design according to period and trends and there’s always something new.

A Birmingham, UK-based designer has created a pair of gold and diamond high heeled shoes, wonderful for a flashy night out on the town. The shoes are finished of solid gold or platinum and are encrusted with 2,200 brilliant cut diamonds totaling 30 carats.

The timeless Borgezie Diamond Stilettos were designed by Christopher Michael Shellis and were handcrafted by a team of goldsmiths and stone setters who work at the House of  Borgezie.

The patent awaiting shoe design features a stamen fluted heel, which draws its inspiration from the elegant stamens of a lily. According to the House of Borgezie website, a pair of diamond stilettos retails from £100,000 or $155,000 and comes with a 1,000 year assurance.

The gold shoes have been examined and hallmarked by the Birmingham Assay Office.

Tammy Jones has forever loved rocks. Glittery ones in exacting. As a child, she stored her rocks in a pink Styrofoam egg box. As her collection grew, so did her attention. Eventually, Jones fascination with rocks led to a obsession for gemstones and to a new business: making jewelry. Jones first tried her hand at jewelry creation while working at HGTV in the late 1990s. She left HGTV in 2005 and began the process of becoming certified as a gemologist. Making the jump into jewelry making was just an extension of her personality and interests.

“One day I just thinking, ‘I’m going to do this. I dragged out all my supplies and just started making stuff. I was a mad woman!” she laughed. “Within four days I had 100 pieces completed.” It was a week before she told someone. “I think I was scared,” Jones explained. “You never know if somebody is going to have the same taste as yours.” Once she sold her first part, the fear missing. “That was such a rush,” she said with a smile. “It was, you know, a small bit of validation.” “I have forever said I was born way too late,” she said with a laugh. “Everything back then was pretty. Every hinge on a door was beautiful. I respect that craftsmanship, and I don’t want it to just die out. I like to repurpose it. Plus, here’s a little of that eco-friendly part in there.

Jones’ love of the natural world extends to another of her favorite element to use: Precious Metal Clay. she gushed, “It is really amazing!”. “It starts off in a little packet that looks like gum, and you work it just like you would normal clay, just on a lesser scale. It is just particles of pure metal with some sort of binder. Once you polish it with something hard, they lay behind flat and pick up light.

Jones creations are encouraged by everything from vintage drawer pulls and the colors of the ocean, to the ironwork model of an old gate. Still, no issue what inspires her or how many pieces she creates, Jones is at rest in awe of her first love, rocks and gemstones. She said, “I have seen the expect diamond“. “I have been through the compilation at the Smithsonian.

A beautiful €1.5 million (£1.24 million) gold and diamond pendant was the star of the demonstrate in Paris this week, showing there is no exclusion to the fact that diamond prices are rising for 2010.

Artcurial of Paris put on an auction sale of luxury jewels and watches during the last week of July, but the results have only just been unrestricted to the public. The sale was hosted at the Hotel Marcel Dassault in Paris, France.

There was one item which totally stole the limelight; the dramatic gold pendant (pictured) embedded with a large pear cut diamond weighing a huge 55.34 carats.

The pendant itself is shaped from rose gold, and the diamond feature of the pendant rests in a perforated ‘basket‘ set of extra brilliant cut diamonds. The 43g weighted pendant hangs from a identical rose gold chain.

The luxurious and required after piece was accompanied by a certificate from the European Gemological Laboratory (EGL) which accounted for the authenticity and quality of the stone.

The special necklace starred at Artcurial with an probable sale value of €1,000,000-1,500,000 (£822,309 – £1,233,478).

With constant reminders that the 2010 jewellery markets is effectively fighting back against the economic downturn, this exceptional jewellery sale item proved no exemption, reaching a high total value of €1,147,336 (£943,722).