{"id":732924,"date":"2025-11-24T20:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=732924"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:56:20","slug":"gabriela-hearst-brings-her-collectors-eye-to-a-curation-of-striking-jewels-from-sothebys-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=732924","title":{"rendered":"Gabriela Hearst Brings Her Collector\u2019s Eye to a Curation of Striking Jewels From Sotheby\u2019s Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gabriela Hearst Brings Her Collector\u2019s Eye to a Curation of Striking Jewels From Sotheby\u2019s Sale<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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By <\/span>Lynn Yaeger<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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A David Webb nephrite, amethyst, ruby, and diamond \u2018Demon Mask\u2019 necklace-brooch combination (est. $20,000\u2013$30,000).<\/span>Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby\u2019s<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cOh, I hope nobody else bids on this! I want this,\u201d the fashion designer\u00a0Gabriela Hearst declares, caressing the massive David Webb necklace she is wearing as if it is the most casual of trinkets. This behemoth, a diamond \u201cDemon Mask\u201d necklace-brooch, features a carved nephrite mask of pre-Columbian inspiration adorned with a textured gold headdress, bezel-set cabochon amethysts, and a plethora of other spectacular stones. It is just one of the dazzling pieces that Hearst has curated from Sotheby\u2019s upcoming High Jewelry sale, taking place December 9 in the house\u2019s new digs in the Breuer building on Madison Avenue. (You know the place, the boxy stack of rectangles that used to house the Whitney Museum.)<\/p>\n

This is the first time Sotheby\u2019s has collaborated with a designer, and Hearst says it was a marriage made in heaven. \u201cIt was one of the happiest professional assignments of my life,\u201d she explains. Hearst has loved jewelry since childhood and designs fine and high jewelry herself\u2014in fact, she has created a pair of earrings that are featured in the auction. She calls them Alpha and Omega, and their sale will benefit Amazon Frontlines, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights and lands of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon. The Alpha earring features emeralds and sapphires, while the Omega literally rocks a round ruby. If the estimate\u2014$60,000 to $80,000\u2014might seem daunting, bear in mind that these convert to studs and pendants, so you are getting three looks in one\u2014a bargain!<\/p>\n

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Gabriela Hearst\u2019s pair of colored stone, diamond, and colored diamond ‘Alpha and Omega’ earrings to benefit Amazon Frontlines (est. $60,000-$80,000).<\/p>\n

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Diamond wristwatch, dating to circa 1941, features a dial set with an oval portrait-cut diamond crystal, framed by baguette, whistle-, and bullet-cut diamonds (est of $10,000\u2013$15,000).<\/p>\n

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Hearst was tasked with picking a mere 10 pieces from the approximately 150 lots in the sale and she didn\u2019t dawdle\u2014\u201cI think it took me like eight minutes, it was like there was no hesitation, like zero,\u201d she laughs. If you expect that she would be drawn to conventionally appealing, \u201cpretty\u201d things, you would be wrong. Her selection is charmingly eccentric. Just one example\u2014an art deco diamond wristwatch that has eschewed a conventional glass crystal covering its little face\u2014you will instead be peering through a portrait diamond when you check the time.<\/p>\n

Hearst was also seduced by a faintly bohemian pair of Hemmerle earrings, their transgressive nature expressed by combining wooly mammoth ivory disks with diamonds. Two strands of graduated mine cut diamonds that can turn into one extra-long necklace seem almost too good to be true\u2014they were actually put together from several other pieces by Fred Leighton, when that king of antique jewelry reigned just down the street on Madison Avenue.<\/p>\n

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Hemmerle\u2019s pair of mammoth ivory and diamond pendant-earclips (est. $30,000\u2013$50,000).<\/p>\n

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JAR Physalis pendant-earclips (est. $250,000\u2013$350,000), created circa 2004, featuring pendants designed as physalis fruits pav\u00e9-set with round pink and red spinels and orange sapphires, suspended from diamond-set chains accented with round red spinels.<\/p>\n

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Another iconic gentleman of jewelry\u2014Joel Arthur Rosenthal, the mastermind behind JAR\u2014is represented with a pair of earclips that Hearst and I both think are meant to evoke bruised hearts, but it turns out are based on physalis fruits, if those ground cherries were pave\u0301-set and incorporated pink and red spinels and orange sapphires, and were suspended from diamond-set chains. A Bulgari ring features a pair of cushion-cut diamonds totaling 6.62 carats and is flanked calibre\u0301-cut rubies and emeralds, red and green, the colors of the Italian flag.<\/p>\n

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Bulgari ring (est. $45,000\u2013$65,000) featuring a pair of cushion-cut diamonds totaling 6.62 carats, flanked on either side by calibr\u00e9-cut rubies and emeralds, and accented with pentagon and trapezoid shaped diamonds.<\/p>\n

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Hearst credits her fascination with nature as the reason she is so enamored of pearls: \u201cIt\u2019s just a little piece of sand that went into an oyster,\u201d she muses. So of course she selected a strand of natural pearls, circa 1915, exceptional in their own right but wait for it\u2014they close with a clasp that is actually a blue vivid diamond. (Who says a clasp has to be worn in the back of your neck? Swing this baby forward!) And fun fact: back in the day, before the advent of cultured pearls, natural pearls were so coveted that\u2014true story\u2014in 1917, the Cartier building on Fifth Avenue was acquired in a swap for a strand.<\/p>\n

Hearst has also fallen in love with a deep and dazzling stone that is un-set, just waiting for its new owner to let his or her imagination transform it into truly wearable art: a remarkable fancy vivid orangy pink, fully 3.27 luscious carats. Describing this holy grail, Hearst shares words that might describe all the wonders in her Sotheby\u2019s curation: \u201cIt\u2019s like holding a little piece of magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The public exhibitions, featuring Gabriela Hearst\u2019s curation, open at Sotheby\u2019s new global headquarters at the Breuer Building on December 5.The live auction takes place December 9.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Necklace featuring 59 graduated round to near-round natural pearls, completed by a clasp set with a marquise-shaped Fancy Blue diamond weighing 3.78 carats (est. $800,000\u2013$1.2 million).<\/p>\n

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Two diamond necklaces (est. $350,000\u2013$550,000), each designed as a line of graduating old mine-cut diamonds set in collets. The necklaces can be worn separately or attached together to create one long, elegant strand.<\/p>\n

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A fancy vivid 3.27-carat cut-cornered rectangular modified brilliant-cut orangy pink fancy vivid diamond (est. $800,000 \u2013 1.2 million).<\/p>\n

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Runway Gabriela Hearst Brings Her Collector\u2019s Eye to a Curation of Striking Jewels From Sotheby\u2019s Sale By Lynn Yaeger November 24, 2025 A David Webb nephrite, amethyst, ruby, and diamond \u2018Demon Mask\u2019 necklace-brooch combination (est. $20,000\u2013$30,000).Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby\u2019s \u201cOh, I hope nobody else bids on this! I want this,\u201d the fashion designer\u00a0Gabriela Hearst declares, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":732926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-732924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-vogue-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/732926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}