Summer Color Essentials!

Happy summer, it's official! June 21st marked the summer solstice, woohoo! So now what?

Now there's no excuse! Bring out those fab summer colors we have waited all year long to bask in. Turquoise, coral, blues, greens, pinks...now is the time to get your color loaded sparkle on - we can help with the color part, just let the sun do the rest!

Here is just a tiny taste of what summer essentials we have in the gallery waiting for you...

Lola Brooks' faceted aquamarine earrings...like cool water on the hottest of days.

Pure turquoise, dripping gold, diamonds...these Lucifer Vir Honestus earrings will be a summer staple, day or night!

For the summer worshiper in us all, these Nicole Landaw Pink Tourmaline earrings are truly the season's totem.

Reinstein/Ross. Emerald. Tassels. Need we say more?!

Gabriella Kiss never skimps when it comes to vibrant stones! Chrysophase is coveted for it's eye-catching color, and these cabochon earrings are no exception. Let your hair down this summer and show your true colors!

It's heating up already just looking at these stunners! Don't let another gorgeous day go by without the proper summer wardrobe accoutrements.  Let us assist you...we know the secret shortcut to soaking up the summer sun in handmade artisan jewelry style! Visit our "Summer Essentials" collection on our website for more inspiration!

Gemgossip Visits Quadrum!

We recently had the absolute pleasure of playing jewelry with Gemgossip correspondent Alexis Kletjian! This is a woman with the winning combination of great style and impeccable taste, who is an emerging jewelry designer to boot! (Not to mention she holds GIA accreditation and a hidden talent for a good game of charades!)

Not only do we admire Alexis' wide range of talents and strong sense of self, but we adore that she believes the best splurge is "anything that makes you feel beautiful or happy every time you come across or experience it's benefits.  It could be a daily latte, jewelry, furniture, professional portrait of your family, or the extra time you carve out for yourself."  YES!

Check out our favorite new Bostonian's blog, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest pages and you will quickly see why we made fast friends with this gal!

We just love how Alexis was able to mix up all of our jewels to create a super fabulous, mouth watering photoshoot

It is incredible that Alexis is fully immersed in the amazing work of Gemgossip, a site that has long been on our radar as one of the premier outlets to discover jewelry...from the oldest of vintage treasures to the newest of modern day master pieces.

Danielle Miele, the creator and genius behind Gemgossip began her successful blog in 2008, and has since inspired the WORLD over to #showmeyourrings !! Her Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and Pinterest pages all further reveal her jewelry obsession (that we clearly share!!).

As a GIA graduate, Danielle spends her time jewelry appraise-a-ring'ing, blogging, instagramming, facebooking, managing her own website and Etsy page and auction house hunting! *Whew* and we love every minute of it!

Danielle modeling Todd Reed's jewelry...Get delirious as you gander through her Jewels at my Doorstep section!

We thank this busy girl, as she is forever traveling and using her keen eye to seek out the very best jewelry in the whole wide world. Danielle, you are an inspiration to all of us jewelry obsessed folk! You keep us on a wild ride through the world of jewelry, never stop!!

XO Quadrum

Featured artists: Barbara Heinrich, Todd Reed, Gabriella Kiss, Anne Sportun, Todd Pownell, Reinstein/Ross, Polly Wales, Lola Brooks, Annette Ferdinandesen

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Lola Brooks....Oooh LA LA!

Lola Brooks...the kind of love affair we are addicted to!

Lola Brooks... Objects of Affection!

We are head-over-heels-in-love....Inspiring gifts from the wonderfully talented Lola Brooks. We have hand selected some of the prettiest jewels that we think are a perfect way to tell your sweat-heart "I love you"!

Quadrum Tax Free Temptations....

The Massachusetts State Tax Free Holiday Weekend is almost upon us!  It is the perfect opportunity for all you Boston Fashionistas to score that piece of designer jewelry you've been coveting at Quadrum...we have all your favorite jewelry artists, Lola Brooks, Gabriella Kiss, Jamie Joseph, Reinstein/Ross and Barbara Heinrich to name a few!

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LOLA BROOKS

Lola Brooks is an artist, metalsmith, clotheshorse and sometimes writer who studied fashion at Pratt Institute but quickly found herself drawn to the metals studio and the possibilities that the intimate scale of jewelry presented.  Deciding to pursue jewelry full-time she went on to earn her BFA in metals from SUNY New Paltz in upstate New York.

Fascinated by jewelry as a cultural signifier, she is influenced by historical jewels, which were often imbued with meaning far beyond the mere physicality of the object, finding inspiration in the Victorian obsession with death and sentimentality, the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as the American art jewelry movement that came into being following World War II when artists once again resurrected an appreciation of the handmade and rejected principles of mass production.  She is driven by her never-ending search for the rich variety of strange and beautiful materials she collects and her love of making beautiful things by hand. She is obsessed with diamonds.  Each piece of her jewelry is fabricated by hand or carved in wax and cast, and stones may be hand-cut, all of which keeps production limited and each piece unique.  She believes there is a certain kind of power to be found in objects that are cultivated in exactly this way.

Say Hello to the Colors of the Season!

Lola Brooks is Now at Quadrum!