Asian Jewelry

Asian Fashion Jewelry is firmly dominated by the Indian Jewelry maker. The designs are unique and culturally astonishing. Price is relatively cheaper and designs 

While contemporary art has been the center of attention recently, people in the jewelry trade say they have no reason to be shy.

“Contemporary art is still the top category, but jewelry is exploding, too,” said Rahul Kadakia, a Christie’s jewelry specialist based in Geneva. The segment makes up about 10% of overall global sales at the auction house, he said. 

The WSJ reports, This April, the jewelry category reaped $82.6 million during Christie’s spring sales in Hong Kong. The 20th-century and contemporary Asian art categories fetched $97.3 million.

Still, the growth in jewelry sales in Hong Kong has pushed the city to rank second after Geneva as a center for the fine-gem auction trade.

“The most mind-controlling band I ever saw was Indian Jewelry. During a set at the Echo four or five or six years ago, they found some top-secret dial on the back of their synthesizer and slowly started turning up the insanity, pounding away at the same unrelenting riff until a roomful of people was twitching and frothing at the mouth. So you could say I’ve got high hopes for this appearance at Part Time Punks’ anniversary show. These weaponsgrade Texan psychedelicists match truly primitive electronics, rhythms like Konono N°1, bleeps and wooshes from some kind of Soviet radar system, etc., to unending slo-mo distorto guitar that fills the room like boiling oil and ghost vocals from the other side. Like all Indian Jewelry releases, new album Peel It demands your total commitment. So hear … and obey.”  Chris Ziegler, LA Weekly