Six gems we reach for again and again — what they mean, and how to keep them beautiful.
That floating blue-white glow — adularescence — is light playing between microscopic layers of feldspar. Moonstone has been a traveler's talisman for centuries; we just think it catches candlelight like nothing else.
The blush-pink quartz of self-love and friendship. Ours comes softly polished rather than glassy — it glows instead of glares. The classic gift that never misses.
Tilt it and the gray stone erupts in peacock blue and green — labradorescence, named for Labrador, Canada, where it was found. No two flashes are alike, which is exactly the point.
Purple quartz colored by trace iron. Ancient Greeks drank from amethyst cups believing it prevented drunkenness — we make no such promises, but it does look extraordinary in evening light.
Sky-blue stone of the American Southwest, treasured for millennia from Persia to Pueblo lands. Our Kingman turquoise is stabilized for everyday wear — the matrix veining makes each piece one of one.
January's birthstone and one of the oldest gems in human adornment — garnets were set in jewelry 5,000 years ago. That deep wine-red glows like embers in low light.