Inside the Jewel Vault

Revel in the wonders inside Sandra Hindman's Vault, as the leading scholar, international dealer and founder of Les Enluminures - unveils a speaking jewel and a betrothal ring restituted from a Nazi hoard.

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Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with a guest drawn from the great and the good from across the jewellery world.

Guest Bio: Dr Sandra Hindman is the founder of leading antique dealer Les Enluminures, which she started over 30 years ago in 1991, and now has three galleries in Paris, Chicago, and New York. She's a specialist in rare, illuminated manuscripts and books, and her expertise also covers precious works of art in gold and gems, posy rings, antique jewels, and archaeological treasures. In addition to overseeing the activities of her three busy galleries, Sandra travels to many international art fairs and book fairs. And she's a certified GIA alumnus, a professor Emirata of Art History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and has written 18 books, 35 reviews, over 60 catalogues, and she speaks three languages and reads six.

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What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me email: [email protected]

To access show notes and images, go to: https://insidethejewelvault.com/podcast/

Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham.

Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.

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Meet Robin Hansen. She’s Curator of Minerals and Gemstones at the Natural History Museum – one of the world's largest and most important mineralogical and gemmological collections. What treasures will she pick for her own fantasy Jewel Vault?

Robin selects a gem-fest from her life and career in gems and jewellery ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.

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Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with a guest drawn from the great and the good from across the jewellery world.

Guest Bio: Robin Hansen is Curator, Minerals and Gemstones at the Natural History Museum, London. Originally from Perth, Australia, Robin worked in iron ore exploration and then for a partnership of high-end mineral dealers before achieving her dream role to become curator, minerals and gemstones at the Natural History Museum, in 2015. Her first book, "Gemstones a Concise Reference Guide", has just been published by the Natural History Museum.

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What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me email: [email protected]

To access show notes and images, go to: https://insidethejewelvault.com/podcast/

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Visionary jeweller Romilly Saumarez Smith selects six fantastical jewels that overturn our usual concepts of arrangement and form, and tells how she overcame paralysis due to illness to work creatively again.

Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with guests drawn from the great and the good across the jewellery world, who chose six special pieces from their life and career in jewellery to save in a fantasy jewel vault, before ultimately picking just one to treasure forever.

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Guest Bio: Romilly Saumarez Smith is a gifted and expressive artist whose imaginative creations weave fantasy, mystery and meaning in materials ranging from precious gems and metals, to fossils, cutlery handles and even metal detected finds. Romilly’s career has been split in two. At first, she found acclaim as a book binder and her work is in leading collections including the V&A, but 25 years ago she turned her attention to jewellery. Unhappily, she developed multiple sclerosis which progressed to her hands, and her creative journey seemed ended. Eventually, she was introduced by her friend, the distinguished weaver Mary Restieaux to a young jeweller, Lucie Gledhill, who could translate the images Romilly saw in her minds’ eye, and this way of working with assistants –instead of her own hands - has successfully brought her ideas to life since then. Romilly’s assistants are talented jewellers in their own right such as Anna Wales, Lucie Gledhill and Laura Nygou and she currently works with two, Rachel Jones, and Carola Solcia who we hear from on the show.

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How about you? What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own - so feel free to curate your own fantasy Jewel Vault and share with me by email. I read each and every one.

Email me: [email protected].

To access show notes and images, go to: https://insidethejewelvault.com/podcast

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What curiosities would the brilliant physicist, Prof Robert Hazen, put inside his fantasy jewel vault? Boost your brain as you listen to Bob pick six marvellous gems from his life and work in mineralogy, experimental physics and the origin of life on earth,, before ultimately selecting just one to treasure forever.

Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with guests drawn from the great and the good across the jewellery world, who chose six special pieces from their life and career in jewellery to save in a fantasy jewel vault.

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Guest Bio: Professor Robert Hazen is a truly impressive person. He's the only person I know who has both handled moon dust and has a mineral named after him. Bob studied geology at MIT, earth Sciences at Harvard, and a postdoc at Cambridge. He's currently senior Staff Scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's, Earth and Planets Laboratory. And he recently retired as the Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences at George Mason University. Until 2019, he was executive director of the Deep Carbon Observatory, which was a fascinating global scientific research collaboration. He is a past president of the Mineralogical Society of America. He's written 25 books and hundreds of scientific articles, most recently on possible roles of minerals in the origin of life, mineral evolution, and the coevolution of the geosphere and biosphere.

I want to hear from you!

How about you? What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own - so feel free to curate your own fantasy Jewel Vault and share with me by email. I read each and every one.

Email me [email protected].

To access show notes and images, go to: https://insidethejewelvault.com/podcast

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Listen to Darren Hildrow, the highly regarded jewellery businessman and founder of NouvelleBox, describe his six surprising choices and ultimate treasure to see that it’s as much about the personality of those he does business with, as the amount of business he generates.

Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with a guest drawn from the great and the good from across the jewellery world.

Guest Bio: Darren Hildrow is a British entrepreneur who is well-connected and highly regarded in the international jewellery industry. After a creative start in the London trade as a maker, Darren worked at high society costumer jewellers Erickson Beamon and Vicki Sarge before moving into fine jewellery as business manager for Jade Jagger and Noor Fares. Following a period as Jewellery Director for a multi-brand wholesale agency, Darren established the first ever online wholesale marketplace, serving jewellery makers and buyers in a community of their own, NouvelleBox.

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How about you? What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own - so feel free to curate your own fantasy Jewel Vault and share with me by email. I read each and every one.

Email me [email protected].

To access show notes and images, go to: https://insidethejewelvault.com/

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Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.

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What does a jewellery curator & historian covet? Dr Beatriz Chadour-Sampson selects six fascinating pieces from her renowned jewellery scholarship and extraordinary family history to put into her fantasy jewel vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.

Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with guests drawn from the great and the good across the jewellery world, who chose six special pieces from their life and career in jewellery to save in a fantasy jewel vault.

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Guest Bio: Dr Beatriz Chadour-Sampson is a polymath of jewellery scholarship: a curator, lecturer, writer and historian with a breadth of jewellery knowledge that spans the whole of human history. Beatriz’s cosmopolitan childhood was spent moving with her father’s successful jewellery business: born in Cuba, she moved to New York and all across Europe from Germany to Spain as a child, before marrying and settling in England. She is a prolific writer on a broad range of specialist topics from antiquity to the C21th. Beatriz is specifically known for her curatorship and her long consultancy with the unique Alice & Louis Koch collection of historic and contemporary rings at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. She was consultant curator in the redesign of the William & Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, and guest curator of the stunning Pearls exhibitions in 2013-14.

I want to hear from you!

How about you? What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own - so feel free to curate your own fantasy Jewel Vault and share with me by email. I read each and every one.

Email me [email protected].

To access show notes and images, go to: https://insidethejewelvault.com/podcast

Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham.

Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.

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What beautiful stories can artisanal mining tell us? Hear Cristina Villegas, the globally respected Director of Mines to Markets at Pact, share her bright, gem-rich fantasy vault and describe what ethical jewellery means at a human level, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.

Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with guests drawn from the great and the good across the jewellery world, who chose six special pieces from their life and career in jewellery to save in a fantasy jewel vault.

I hope you enjoy listening!

Guest Bio: Cristina Villegas is a leading figure advancing good governance in the artisanal and small-scale mines to market sector. About 20% of the diamonds and gold we buy and 80% of the sapphires are amongst the minerals mined informally by an estimated 45m people worldwide, some of whom earn less than $2 a day. Whilst it’s a hugely important source of minerals and metals globally, it traps communities in a cycle of poverty. Based in Washington DC, Cristina is Director of Mines to Market at Pact, a respected global NGO advancing development and sustainability and her projects range from mining safety in Indonesia, to child labour in gold mining in Columbia via many projects in African nations including the pioneering Moyo Gems women’s social enterprise in Tanzania.

I want to hear from you!

How about you? What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own - so feel free to curate your own fantasy Jewel Vault and share with me by email. I read each and every one.

Email me [email protected].

To access show notes and images, go to: https://insidethejewelvault.com/podcast

Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham.

Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.

My grateful thanks to you both!

What gems would fill a field gemmologist's vault?

Lace up your hiking boots and get ready to find out in this episode as I ask GIA Field Gemologist, Wim Vertriest, to select six pieces from his travels and career in gemmology and put them into a fantasy Jewel Vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.

I hope you enjoy listening!

Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with guests drawn from the great and the good across the jewellery world, who chose six special pieces from their life and career in jewellery to save in a fantasy jewel vault, before ultimately picking just one to treasure forever. I hope you enjoy listening!

Guest Bio: Wim Vertriest is manager of Field Gemology at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and Curator of the Institute's Colored Stone Research Collection. Originally from Belgium where he graduated as a geologist, Wim is now based in the global capital of gemstones, Bangkok. He has first-hand knowledge of gem mining and has travelled, lectured and written extensively on coloured gems. He says he can find his way around the world’s gemstone mining areas just as well as navigating the microscopic internal world of gemstones.

I want to hear from you!

What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me email: [email protected]

To access show notes and images, go to: https://insidethejewelvault.com/podcast/

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Engineered by sound genius Asa Bennet.

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Listen to the celebrated Vogue jewellery editor share her fantasy jewels.

In this episode I ask Vogue jewellery editor, author, historian and fellow podcaster, Carol Woolton, to select six pieces from her life and career in jewellery and put them into a fantasy Jewel Vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.

Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with a guest drawn from the great and the good from across the jewellery world.

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Guest Bio: Vogue jewellery editor, author and historian, Carol Woolton stands as a leading light across both fashion and jewellery industries, renowned for her discerning judgement of style and meaning in jewellery design. In this conversation with Jessica, Carol describes six superb gems & jewels which have influenced her during the course of her life and career in jewellery.

I want to hear from you!

What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me, email: [email protected]

To access show notes and images, go to: https://jessicamayjewels.com/podcast/

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The jewellery mystery author, Josie Goodbody, reveals her fantasy jewels - selecting six magnificent pieces from her life and career in jewellery for her personal fantasy Jewel Vault, ultimately choosing that one special treasure to keep safe forever.

Welcome Inside the Jewel Vault hosted by me, jeweller, and gemmologist Jessica Cadzow-Collins, with a guest drawn from the great and the good from across the jewellery world.

I hope you enjoy listening!

Guest Bio: Josie Goodbody is the creator of the glamorous Jemima Fox Mysteries, a series of adventures inspired by real-life diamond heists. Romping through high-society and fashion PR, Josie’s own real-life stories and adventures are almost as dazzling and colourful as her Vault jewellery choices.

A jewellery & fashion PR turned author, Josie Goodbody worked with the jewels of Bulgari, Ritz Fine Jewels, and was Head of PR at Graff for several years, working closely with Laurence Graff himself, the King of Diamonds. She has travelled extensively particularly in South Africa and France where she lived in Paris and Monaco. A heist expert, Josie has so far written four novels and one novella following the diamond sleuth Jemima Fox as she unravels audacious diamond thefts inspired by real life events. The series has recently been optioned for TV. Josie also has her own podcast series exploring jewellery history, The Jewellarian http://www.josiegoodbody.com/

I want to hear from you!

What special treasures would you put into your fantasy jewel vault, and why? Every so often I’ll compile your stories into a podcast of their own. To get in touch with me email: [email protected]

To access show notes and images, go to: https://insidethejewelvault.com/podcast/

Produced by broadcast & media guru Lizzie Wingham.

Engineered by the genius Asa Bennet.

My grateful thanks to you both!