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The venerable Lebanese house Aziz & Walid Mouzannar, with roots in the eighteenth century, has lately collaborated with the late Zaha Hadid and crafted Victoria's Secret's multimillion-dollar Fantasy Bra under its sixth generation.
Many jewellers swore by Elizabeth Taylor's eye for exquisite diamonds. By her death in 2011 she had amassed the world's most impressive collection, its most prized pieces by Bulgari, the subject of one enduring love affair.
Dylanlex necklaces draw their raw appeal from a vintage look, blending ethnic styling with Art Deco. Crafted from aged brass, copper, bronze and mixed metals, then hand-laid with Swarovski crystals, they trade colour for pure metallic sheen.
Impeccably groomed and endlessly multi-tasking, Ibtissam Saab directs her new in-store display while zooming her camera across deep blue tanzanites and bright green emeralds, pear-shaped jewels cut to a gleaming, flawless finish.
Arriving late but radiant, Chaumet chief executive Thierry Fritsch settles into his office overlooking Place Vendôme. Below, in one of the grand salons, a small selection of the storied French house's creations awaits.
Amid double-height ceilings, white marble floors and stained glass, Jean-Louis Sabaji cuts an incongruous figure. Skinny jeans, patterned trainers, an eyebrow stud and a diamond-encrusted skull necklace announce, unmistakably, the creative at work.
Gold was plentiful, yet it was the precious stones, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds and notably opals, that had their moment. More than 600 exhibitors from 30 countries made this dazzling fair the region's finest.
Tiffany & Co may lead contemporary jewellery, but its roots run deep. Founded in 1837 by twenty-five-year-old Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young as a stationery store, its first day's takings totalled just under five dollars.
Pre-independence India was a treasure trove of the finer things, but preserving them is now an art. Where maharajas once traded Cartier watches, Bulgari jewels and Vuitton trunks freely, holding onto such artefacts has become far harder.
One of the world's largest and least-worn diamonds, Tiffany's bulbous 128.54-carat Yellow, has been given a brand-new look. Unearthed in South Africa in 1877, it was cut by gemologist George Kurtz into an eighty-two-facet brilliant.
Channelling the Ottoman spirit with a twist of happiness, the jeweller takes a playful approach to prayer beads, threading ancient dinars, tassels and newly discovered amber through his thirty-three and sixty-six bead strings.
Founded in Milan in 1967 by Pino Rabolini, Pomellato pulled jewellery out of haute couture and into pret-a-porter, to be worn as changeably as clothes. The Capri Collection carries that credo forward beautifully.