Where every piece begins.
The origin, properties, and stories behind this season's most remarkable gemstones.
Lavender Spinel
Sri Lanka · Natural, untreated · 1 – 3ct
A soft violet-grey that shifts with the light, spinel spent decades mistaken for sapphire in royal collections before gemology gave it a name of its own. Untreated, and rarer at this clarity than most people realize.
Mint Garnet
Tanzania (Merelani Hills) · Natural, untreated · 0.5 – 2ct
A cool, minty green found only in one corner of Tanzania, mint garnet is a tsavorite variant so rare it rarely leaves the region's specialist dealers. No heat, no fill — just what came out of the ground.
Paraiba Tourmaline
Mozambique · Natural, minor heat treatment common to the type · 0.5 – 1.5ct
The neon blue-green of Paraiba tourmaline comes from trace copper — a geological accident so unusual that gemologists once thought it existed in only one Brazilian mine. It glows even in low light.
Alexandrite
Lab-grown, hydrothermal · Lab-grown, same optical and physical properties as mined alexandrite · 0.5 – 2ct
Green in daylight, red under incandescent light — alexandrite is the closest thing to a magic trick in the mineral world. Ours are grown, not mined, so the color-change performance comes without the six-figure price tag of a natural stone.