Queen Maxima ones again displays her pleasure in modern gold jewelry at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
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Although I'm a fan of historical jewels I think that she looks just great with these. And it matches with that extravagant pattern of her jumpsuit.
According to a poster on the Royal Jewels Message Board, the golden bijoux worn by Máxima were from Joël Arthur Rosenthal (JAR), Place Vendôme 7, Paris...
I understand she is
Her Majesty Queen Máxima, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau and with that comes "a royal lifestyle" indeed. But tell me, a simple dude, what is the diffference between gold bijoux from a jeweller in Buenos Aires or Istanbul and gold bijoux from a jeweller at the Place Vendôme, apart from the prize tag?
It is only gold, I mean: in the soukh in Marrakech or at any jeweller in Beirut she can buy the same gold bijoux (or even more beautiful) for just a
fraction of the prize she had to pay at the Place Vendôme, in Paris. That is what I do not understand. It is not that the golden bijoux from JAR is that amazingly unique, or am I thinking the wrong way? At the other hand... it could have been a gift too, of course. From the King or so.
Queen Máxima with her JAR gold:
picture.
The atelier and jewellery of Joël Arthur Rosenthal is to the left of The Ritz hotel, off Place Vendôme. The shop has no display windows, nothing to indicate what happens inside. To open his door, someone needs an introduction from someone Monsieur Rosenthal knows, another client perhaps, or have a name that brooks no confusion... According to a report by
Forbes, the craftsmen only create 70 to 80 pieces a year, each of them one of a kind and many designed with a particular buyer in mind. Monsieur Rosenthal reserves the right to refuse to sell an item if he doesn’t think it will look good on the intended wearer. His creations often sell for twice what the first buyer paid.
