The jeweler Pierre Dubail’s abstract work has been set onto a jeweled butterfly brooch. By Kathleen Beckett The term art jewelry is bandied about a lot, typically referring to jewelry of a sculptural ...

Under the black light, the Butterfly Brooch shows off a whole separate array of fluorescent colors. Photo by Donald Hurlbert, Smithsonian Cindy Chao knew, with more than 2,300 gems of diamonds, rubies ...

The Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History will add to its celebrated gem collection with Masterpiece Royal Butterfly by jewelry artisan Cindy Chao. The brooch will be the first ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s famous gem collection has a new addition: the Cindy Chao Black Label Masterpiece Royal Butterfly Brooch. Created by Chao in 2009, the brooch will be the first ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fashion, beauty and home décor. Since her days as the lovelorn Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, Parker has ...

Queen Elizabeth is not a woman who lacks in jewelry options. From glittering tiaras to her famous strands of pearls to full matching sets of gems, there are few collections in the world that could ...

There's a massive, 45-foot-long 2,300-pound North Atlantic Right Whale hanging in the Ocean Hall of the Smithsonian, but it was Cindy Chao's 2009 royal butterfly that stole the show at the D.C. museum ...

Queen Elizabeth II wore a butterfly-shaped brooch during her COP26 climate change address, in a poignant tribute to her late husband, Prince Philip, and his work on wildlife conservation. In a ...

Since returning to her royal duties following the death of Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth has been subtly paying tribute to her late husband via a string of very meaningful brooches. On Tuesday, the ...