A few stunners...
I've always thought that no great jewelry house handled colored stones better than Van Cleef & Arpels and their newest jewelry collections prove the point. Both the one-of-a-kind California Reverie collection released last October (much of it already sold like this fabulous setting sun opal brooch) and the even newer Birds of Paradise collection will stop anyone in their tracks. Whimsical and witty, these are definitely conversation starters, as in "Wow! Where did you find those fantastic earrings? I love them!
Just about every kind of stone you can name and several that you probably won't think of has been used in these collections. Sapphires in blue and every unusual shade from pink to lavender to yellow, white diamonds, red spinels, emeralds, green garnets and of course gold in white, yellow and rose.
