Aquamarine

Ingo Maurer, Gino Sarfatti, Max Ingrand, Paavo Tynell, Vico Magistretti...these are a few of the designers whose lamps have shaped the history of lighting.

Christie's and Sotheby's each sold a royal wedding tiara made by Fabergé at their May auctions in Geneva for a combined total of $1.5 million: one belonging to Princess Alexandra of Hanover and the other to her sister-in-law, the German Crown Princess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

An exceptional necklace by Jean Fouquet, the master of Parisian jewelry in the 1920s, sold for over a million dollars at Christie's.