Jewelry’s Shining Stars: The Next Generation

Beth Bernsteinis a jewelry historian, author, journalist, and one-time jewelry designer. Her books includeThe Modern Guide to Antique Jewellery(ACC Art Books, 2022)If These Jewels Could Talk(ACC Art Books, 2015)Jewelry's Shining Stars(Fine Points Publishing, 2013) anda memoirMy Charmed Life(Penguin, 2012). Beth has contributed to many magazines, journals and publications includingForbes.com, Jewelry Connoisseur, Rapaport Magazine, The JewelleryEditor.com, Accent Magazine, Elite Traveler, Four Seasons Departures. She has worked as a senior editor for two leading national jewelry magazines, as well as launching her own online jewelry magazine, bejeweledmag.com, in 2017. She also lectures, runs and participates in seminars and educational events. Throughout the 1990s, Beth designed a jewelry collection under the brand name Bethany B, which sold to over 250 stores throughout the USA and abroad.

Jewelry's Shining Stars: The Next Generationbrings together 45 new women designers who have liberated the way we view and buy jewellery. This compilation of talented women, who hail from around the globe, use techniques such as enamelling, engraving, and creating nuanced textural details in wax models, to bend the rules and break with tradition. While some work with their own hands, whether schooled or self-taught, challenging themselves at the bench, others work alongside artisans to reinvigorate the old school into relevant yet enduring pieces.