This episode is brought to you by Fully Gemstones.

Diamonds are like the coolest girls at school.

They're blonde-haired, blue-eyed, tall and willowy,

and all the other coloured stones have to compete with her

because the diamond industry has marketed itself so incredibly well

so that a lot of stores and brands and places that you go

only sell you diamond jewelry,

as if it's the only thing that exists really.

But what I like to do is just explore everything.

I'm Carol Horton, the voice of jewelry.

Welcome to If Jewels Could Talk.

I'm an author and broadcaster,

and the woman who initiated the role of jewellery editor at magazines like Tatler and Vogue. This is a podcast for everyone, for people who do

like jewelry, for people who don't realize they like jewelry, and anyone intrigued by fascinating

facts, new ideas and forgotten histories. So join me as I tell

sparkly tales and meet all sorts of people delving into four centuries of jewelry culture

and investigate what's happening now.

I'm very happy to be here this morning with Salons as a Goury Partridge.

She is the British jewellery designer known for her playful and witty take on jewelry,

executed with a modern take on classic craftsmanship. She's the ex-created director of the French Maison, Boucheron, and her work is in the permanent collections of the

Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Paris's Mousé des Art Decorative. And in 2002, she was a nominee for Designer of the Year by London's

Design Museum. And she's just published this week a book about her three decades of her

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