Inspired by organic textures – shells, seeds, stems – Tsuchiyama celebrates the smooth tacility of pearls by keeping design elements to a minimum. Suspended on an 18 carat gold fine wire stem, the ...

The price-value anomaly is obvious to consumers as they hasten to buy Chinese freshwater bargains. Indeed, pearls from freshwater mussels lie at the center of the liveliest activity in pearling today.

Tiffany, for example, chooses only from the top 5 per cent of South Sea, Tahitian, Akoya and freshwater varieties, while Adler says it sources its white pearls from Australia, pink and violet ...