Diamonds Across Time

Diamonds Across Time presents a sweeping overview of diamonds across time and space, featuring ten essays by world-renowned scholars in love with the stone. The authors – Usha R Balakrishnan, René Brus, Derek J. Content, Hugo Miguel Crespo, François Farges, John King, Jack Ogden, Stefano Papi, Ruth Peltason and Diana Scarisbrick, present new discoveries; explore extraordinary jewellery collections; investigate the trade, explain the spectrum of colours; legendary gems and great designers. Above all, they tell the human stories that underpin the adoration of diamonds.

Edited by Dr. Usha R Balakrishnan, Chief Curator of the World Diamond Museum
Hardcover, linen with lenticular hologram 16 x 12 cm, 432 pages, 319 × 244 mm,
309 illustrations (270 colour and 39 black and white)
ISBN: 978-1-83804-840-2