“Oh, I hope no one else bids on this! I would like this,” the style designer Gabriela Hearst declares, caressing the huge David Webb necklace she is sporting as if it’s the most informal of trinkets. This behemoth, a diamond “Demon Masks” necklace-brooch, incorporates a carved nephrite masks of pre-Columbian inspiration adorned with a textured gold headdress, bezel-set cabochon amethysts, and a plethora of different spectacular stones. It’s simply one of many dazzling items that Hearst has curated from Sotheby’s upcoming Excessive Jewellery sale, going down December 9 in the home’s new digs within the Breuer constructing on Madison Avenue. (You realize the place, the boxy stack of rectangles that used to accommodate the Whitney Museum.)
That is the primary time Sotheby’s has collaborated with a designer, and Hearst says it was a wedding made in heaven. “It was one of many happiest skilled assignments of my life,” she explains. Hearst has liked jewellery since childhood and designs tremendous and excessive jewellery herself—the truth is, she has created a pair of earrings which are featured within the public sale. She calls them Alpha and Omega, and their sale will profit Amazon Frontlines, a non-profit group devoted to defending the rights and lands of Indigenous peoples within the Amazon. The Alpha earring options emeralds and sapphires, whereas the Omega actually rocks a spherical ruby. If the estimate—$60,000 to $80,000—might sound daunting, keep in mind that these convert to studs and pendants, so you’re getting three seems to be in a single—a discount!
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