Call them the diamonds of the sea. Jewelry made from Mediterranean red coral has found a new, unprecedented level of desirability among Chinese consumers — whose insatiable penchant for the rare ...

In 1985, if you walked into a jewelry store in Lahaina Maui the first thing you would see is a big sign saying “we sell the famous Maui black coral necklace.” That famous black coral almost went ...

We were in Florence, so naturally humanism came up—the Medicis too. One of my first stops in that city is always the Medici Chapel of the Princes, where the walls are adorned in marble and inlaid with ...

A little farther north, at the Ralph Lauren boutique in West Palm Beach, a handful of pieces fills a decorative fireplace. In Dania Beach, dozens of coral skeletons line the windows of Alex’s Gift ...