Journal / Metals · 7 min read
What record gold prices mean for a small atelier
Gold passed $4,000 an ounce, then went on to a record above $5,500. Here is what that does to the price of a ring, and what we refuse to do about it.
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Essays written at the bench — on prices, technique, and how a two-person atelier keeps its promises when the metal gets expensive. Written by Emily Rose, goldsmith.
Journal / Metals · 7 min read
Gold passed $4,000 an ounce, then went on to a record above $5,500. Here is what that does to the price of a ring, and what we refuse to do about it.
Journal / Style · 6 min read
Four rules, three widths, and the one mistake that makes solid gold read as costume jewellery. Plus the exact combo we are wearing this season.
Journal / Craft · 8 min read
From the first drawing at 8:30 to the eagle's head at 17:00: a working day in a two-person goldsmith's workshop, including the failures that go back in the tray.
Note
Emily also writes for the French jewellery trade media — infoBijoux — where she covers the market under four sections: Actualités, Encyclopédie, Apprendre and Conseils. There, she writes for the trade: price dossiers, the history of hallmarks, what the gold market is doing.
This journal is her own space. The pieces here are less formal, closer to the bench: what a week of record prices does to a small workshop, how to wear what we make, and the day-to-day of the craft itself. No agenda, no uptime — just notes from the work.
Twice a month, the new work and the note from the bench — including, when it matters, the honest price of gold. No countdown timers, no noise.
Read the making of the house — an American goldsmith who works in a Paris atelier, twelve pieces a season, hallmarked in France.