In 1967, a chance meeting between the jeweler Claude Arpels and the Russian choreographer George Balanchine inspired a ballet called Jewels. This year, Van Cleef & Arpels returned the favor, in a way, ...

Clients who arrived by private jet to Van Cleef & Arpels recent debut of its latest high jewelry collection, Treasure Island, were clearly impressed by the French Maison’s idea of pirate’s booty—the ...

Few things hasten a woman’s heartbeat like jewelry. Consider Cleopatra and the precious stones with which she dazzled Mark Antony, or the vast collection of jewels Elizabeth Taylor acquired through ...

Nicolas Bos, the 48-year-old chief executive of Van Cleef & Arpels, comfortably wears two hats. In running the maison’s day-to-day business and overseeing the design and settings for its jewelry ...

Van Cleef & Arpels has expanded its popular Frivole jewelry collection with a fresh crop of floral designs. Nine new pieces are on offer, including earrings, rings, pendants and bracelets in 18K ...

We already know that sports stars have expensive taste in jewelry, and those in Major League Baseball are certainly no exception. But while the aesthetic codes of baseball players have long been ...

A reproduction of a 24-karat gold necklace, now on display in Paris, was made using the same methods that created the original more than 2,500 years ago. By Chantel Tattoli The style’s bold lines and ...

This Van Cleef & Arpels necklace is a feat of high jewelry engineering. The result of an exchange in the late 1930s between the Duchess of Windsor and Renée Puissant, the maison’s artistic director ...

There is of course Queen ­Nazli’s necklace. The 220-carat all-white-diamond bib was commissioned by the queen from Van Cleef & Arpels to celebrate the wedding of her daughter Princess Fawzia of Egypt ...