A gem dealer's journal — sapphire
A Gem Dealer’s Journal: Gem designing in Australia with Laura Phillis
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Hey Loungers,
As you may have noticed, we have had a fair few gem cutters coming through our columns recently. Today, we interview the newly appointed president of the South Australian division of the G.A.A. (Gemmological Association of Australia), Madame the President Laura Phillis!
Laura is a famed lapidary artist, whom is more widely known by her company name on Instagram: Tatum Gems, who’s made a name for herself for coming up with brand new gem designs as well as for being a gemmological teacher in her native Australia.
We had the opportunity of meeting her recently during the 2020 edition of the Tucson show where she agreed to answer to our questions.
A Gem Dealer’s Journal: Outta the Blue: Robert Gessner’s interview
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A Gem Dealer's Journal: The Hunt for Pink August
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Hey Loungers, Today we propose you a bit of a special episode of A Gem Dealer's Journal, as we will be discussing our latest trip to Madagascar. While the Hunt for Red October was already taken by Tom Clancy, we decided to go after Pink August which was conveniently more readily available in the area of Ilakaka. For those of you that would like to learn more about Ilakaka and its surrounding we propose you to follow this link to an article by Vincent Pardieu while he was at the GIA Bangkok: read now. Our merry group upon arrival...
A Gem Dealer's Journal: Interviewing GIA´s current head of field gemology in Bangkok: Wim Vertriest
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Hey Loungers,
Wim Vertriest is the current Supervisor of GIA´s field gemology program in Bangkok, Thailand.
Today, we propose you an interview with Wim in hope to better understand what field gemology is all about and what the average day at Bangkok´s GIA office looks like as well as how and why is a gemological field expedition deployed.
With this in mind, we propose you to fasten your seat belt and to follow us as we interview Wim Vertriest. Wim, the floor is yours!
A gem dealer’s journal: Dive in the life of an auction master with Stewart Young
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Hey Loungers,
Today we’ll be welcoming in our column for the first part of a twin interview Mr. Stewart Young.
Stewart has been working for some of the most famous auction houses in the world and has more recently been at the helm of the rise of Hong Kong’s fastest rising auction house: Tiancheng International.
Today, Stewart is at the helm of his very own high jewellery brand but that will be a story we’ll be discussing in part two of this interview so stay tuned to learn more about it.
Without any further delays we give today’s guest: Stewart Young!