Fancy Gray Diamond – A Palette of Silver
David Federman
Modern Jeweler
Now that jewelers are discovering the joys of jet colors in diamonds, Beverly Hills diamond dealer and jewelry designer Alan Friedman thinks they ought to get wise to the far deeper satisfactions of silver shades. “I’ve never carried black diamonds,” he says. “They’re opaque and lack the diamond’s defining sparkle and fire.” Worse, most black diamonds are now irradiated—often without this fact being disclosed.
Mindful that a growing number of consumers want natural-color diamonds which combine metallic hues and mirror-sharp brightness, Friedman is using an increasing number of stones with what he calls “silver tones.” Such diamonds run a color gamut from lighter shades of pewter and nickel to deeper ones of lead and graphite—all of which can be grouped under the lively heading of silver.
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