The word curio has appeared in 14 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 22 in “4 Indie Makers to Watch in the High Jewelry Scene” by Tina Isaac-Goizé:
For Marc Auclert, modernity goes hand-in-hand with the past. Twelve years ago, armed with 15 years of experience in the high jewelry department at Chanel, as well as stints at De Beers in Tokyo and Sotheby’s gem department in Paris, he set about turning the antique curios he loves — ancient coins, prehistoric beads, delicate intaglios — into one-of-a-kind jewels.
In his tiny, tidy boutique on Rue de Castiglione, recent arrivals included a ring mounted with a broken coin dating to the third century B.C. and bearing the profile of the Macedonian general Lysimachus, an heir to Alexander the Great. Mr. Auclert worked with his jewelry atelier — drawing on the traditional Japanese technique of kintsugi, which accentuates the fractures in cracked pottery with powdered gold or other precious metals — to fill a missing section of the coin with white gold and diamonds.
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