I asked in the occasion that they have been referencing a turquoise and amethyst bib that belonged to the Duchess of Windsor, or the good onyx and rock crystal geometry of the Art Deco period, or the lapis and turquoise scarabs of the Egyptian Revival? One of my first stops in that city is always the Medici Chapel of the Princes, where the partitions are adorned in marble and inlaid with jasper, lapis, mother-of-pearl, quartz, and coral. I gasped later that day when, at a high jewelry presentation inside a historic villa, I saw a carved lapis Cartier necklace, and …
