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Gruosi dynamic creativity and nonconformist approach have
been rejuvenating the conventions of jewellery since the brand
was established in 1993 with a boutique on Geneva’s Rue du
Rhône, where he eschewed the minimalism characteristic of the
decade in favour of rich, sensual, ornate pieces.
Vivienne Becker is a jewellery historian and also an award-win-
ning journalist. Author of many books on the history of jew-
ellery design, she is based in London. Becker is a contributing
editor to Financial Times’s How to Spend It magazine, writes for
newspapers and magazines around the world, and lectures and
broadcasts on her subject. She organised and wrote the catalogue
for the first major exhibition of the jewellery of René Lalique,
and curated Jewels of Fantasy, a travelling exhibition of twenti-
eth-century costume jewellery.
