Le Gemmologue

Family

by Marie Chabrol | Mar 27, 2015 | Anecdotes

I can’t really tell this client that sometimes he is exaggerating. I say things nicely, I use humour, I use pirouettes. And we agree. He makes an effort and I make one too. After all, I wouldn’t want him to go anywhere else. Besides, it’s simply...

Xavier Massonnaud, jeweler architect

by Marie Chabrol | Mar 24, 2015 | The creators

I was lucky enough to meet Xavier Massonnaud at the Mineral Expo show in December 2014 and to make friends with him. After a few exchanges, I was certain that I had the necessary material to tell you about his career and thus introduce you to his creative work in...

The sale of the Lauren Bacall collection

by Marie Chabrol | Mar 14, 2015 | Auctions

At the end of March 2015, precisely between 31 and 1 April, the Bonhams auction house will be dispersing part of the collection assembled by Lauren Bacall. It is a particularly eclectic ensemble that will be sold in New York: boxes, sculptures, decorative objects,...

An important gem Diaspore presented in Tucson

by Marie Chabrol | Mar 4, 2015 | Gemmology

A month ago, at the Tucson World Exchange shows, the largest known cut gem Diaspore was presented. This stone of more than 121 carats – also known as Csarite™ or Zultanite™ – comes from the only global deposit providing Diaspore of this quality. This one...

Aurélien Delaunay, gemmologist at the LFG

by Marie Chabrol | Feb 28, 2015 | The meetings of the gemologist

For this second career interview, I went to meet Aurélien Delaunay who works as a gemmologist at the Laboratoire Français de Gemmologie. With kindness and patience, he lent himself to the game of questions and answers for this new professional interview. A huge thank...