Jewelry

A bijou of a hotel: Birks to become boutique hotel, store to stay

Big news for Montreal: Maison Birks, the jewelry store founded in 1879, which has pride of place on the corner of Ste-Catherine and Phillips Square, will be transformed into a boutique hotel. Construction of the Hotel Birks is slated to start in spring 2017, with opening in spring of 2018. The transformation of the building, [...]

By | November 2nd, 2016|Tags: , , , , , , |Comments Off on A bijou of a hotel: Birks to become boutique hotel, store to stay
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The art of bijoux on show and sale at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

At the first edition of Bijoux = Art, I admired the burnished yellow gold jewelry of Dania Chelminsky, but I bought a rubber necklace by the Dutch artisan Annemieke Broenink. It's a marvelous piece, everything jewelry should be – art, fashion, adornment, embellishment, crafty and very interesting. It's made of leaf-like petals in a silvery-moss-grey that have a [...]

By | March 14th, 2016|Tags: , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on The art of bijoux on show and sale at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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