Jewelers Row, Chicago · Since 1975
Necklaces.
Cocktail and high jewelry necklaces — riviera lines, important pendants, worked gold and strands matched pearl by pearl. A necklace holds more stones and more metal than anything else we make, so nearly every one is built rather than bought in, and nothing here carries a price on the screen. Tell us which piece you are looking at and we will answer you personally.
The hub
Ten necklaces. Ask about any of them.
These are the ten kinds of necklace we make and keep. Each one is built around its own stones, so what is in the case changes constantly and no two quotes are the same. Pick the one closest to what you have in mind and ask — you will hear back from the shop, with what we currently have and what it would take to make it.
Riviera necklaces
An unbroken line of stones graduating from the clasp to the centre, with no metal showing between them. The piece a whole collection gets built around.
Matching a full line takes months of buying. Ask what is part-built now.
Pendant necklaces
One important stone on a chain, sitting where everyone looks first. The simplest way to wear something significant every day.
The bail and the chain are chosen for the stone's weight, not the other way round.
Collar necklaces
A wide worked band that sits high on the neck and holds its own shape. Goldsmithing you wear rather than a chain carrying a stone.
A collar is fitted to a neck. This is one to be measured for.
Lariat & Y-necklaces
A chain that passes through itself and falls in a single line down the front, finishing in a stone. Long, narrow and deliberately unbalanced.
It lengthens the neckline, so it suits a high collar as well as an open one.
Pearl strands
South Sea, Tahitian and Akoya strands graduated or matched straight through, knotted between every pearl by hand.
Have a strand restrung every few years. A worn silk thread is how they end up on the floor.
Heavy gold chains
Solid curb, rope and link chains in 14k and 18k, worn on their own. Weight you can feel in the hand before it ever goes round a neck.
Solid, not hollow. Ask to hold both and you will never wonder which is which again.
Estate & vintage necklaces
Period pieces that came through the shop and were kept — hand engraving, old cuts, and settings nobody builds that way any more.
One of a kind by definition. When it is gone there is not another.
Convertible necklaces
A pendant that lifts off its chain, a long strand that clasps into two shorter ones, a brooch fitting that turns a piece into something else entirely.
The old houses built everything this way. It is worth asking for.
Heirloom resets
A brooch nobody wears any more turned into a pendant, or a stone out of a broken piece put back on a chain that suits it.
Nothing is cut or removed until you have seen and approved the plan.
One-of-a-kind commissions
A necklace that exists once, drawn around stones you have chosen and made at the bench here. A necklace carries more metal and more stones than anything else we make, which is exactly why it is worth designing from nothing.
Nothing is quoted until the design is settled, and nothing is made until the quote is.
Before you enquire
Two things worth knowing first.
Length and chain are the two questions that come up at the counter every day. Here they are, so your enquiry can start further along.
Where it will sit
Lay a necklace you already wear flat and measure it end to end including the clasp, or run a tape around the neck and down to where you want the piece to land. Then double the drop and add the neck.
A guide, not a rule. The same chain sits differently on every neck, a heavy pendant pulls a length down further than a bare chain, and anything worn over a collar needs more again. Bring the top you mean to wear it with and we will hang it on you at the counter.
Chain styles
What the chain itself is made of matters as much as its length, especially under the weight of a pendant. Tap one.
Cable. Round or oval links at right angles to each other. The plain, strong, everyday chain, and the easiest of all of them to repair.
After you own it
An important piece needs looking after.
The bench that makes the necklaces is the bench that services them. Bring in anything, whoever sold it to you.
Clasp & bail check
A worn clasp is how a necklace ends up on the pavement. We look at the clasp, the bail and the links either side of it while you wait.
Repairs & serviceRestringing pearls
Knotted by hand between every pearl, on fresh silk, with the clasp checked and replaced if it needs it.
Repairs & serviceCleaning
A proper clean brings a chain back further than most people expect. Ask when you are next downtown.
Visit the shopCome and try them on
Suite B1, one floor down from Wabash.
No screen tells you where a necklace actually sits on you, or how it lies against what you are wearing. There is a mirror at the counter. Tell us what you are after and we will have those pieces out of the safe and waiting.
- Address
- 1 N Wabash Ave, Suite B1
Chicago, IL 60602 - Phone
- (312) 782-8633
Hours
- Monday10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday10:00 – 17:00
- Friday10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday11:00 – 16:00
- SundayClosed