Do Not Miss Paula Crevoshay’s Exhibition in Paris:

‘The minerals are the beginning of our quest for understanding and preserving who we are and from where we come. They hold the clues for sustaining life. They harness a deeper understanding of how life is formed,’ Paula Crevoshay.

On 8 November the Mineralogy Museum in Paris hosted the grand opening of the jewellery exhibition of American jeweller Paula Crevoshay’s work. Entitled ‘Illuminations: Earth to Jewel’ it will run until 1 February 2017. The exhibition took two years to prepare and now 32 original Crevoshay pieces are being exhibited, surrounded by minerals from the museum’s own collection.

By using a wide range of breathtaking gems, Paula pays tribute to nature and its jewelled resources. Decorating large pendants, cocktail rings, cuff bracelets and other impressively sized jewellery, you can see well-known stones such as beryl, corundum, tourmalines and diamonds, as well as rarer ones such as apatite, kunzite and sphalerite. In the exhibition these, among many other stones, are laid before visitors’ eyes in their naked forms in which they were taken from the earth’s bowels, and also, after cutting and setting in a jewel. The co-curator of the Parisian Mineralogy Museum, Eloïse Gaillou, reported that the juxtaposition of uncut gems and jewellery was not accidental. The purpose was to give an opportunity to curious visitors to see the two very different forms of the same mineral, before and after it has been touched by a human hand.