Beth Bernstein and Sonia Soltani spotlight jewelry duos, family legacies in new book

When a ring or pendant is meant for daily wear, the story behind it often matters as much as the stone. Beth Bernstein and Sonia Esther Soltani have co-written Jewelry Creators: Dynamic Duos and Generational Gems, a 176-page hardcover from ACC Art Books that will reach the United States on June 2, 2026, with a U.K. date of May 26, 2026.

The book is built around a simple but revealing idea: jewelry businesses are often shaped by relationships, not just materials. ACC divides the volume into two sections, Dynamic Duos and Generational Gems, to track siblings, parents and children, married couples and close friends, along with multi-generation houses that passed skills, contacts and taste from one era to the next. That structure matters for buyers because the same family or partnership often leaves a visible signature in a collection, from the way a setting frames a stone to the kind of piece a brand returns to season after season.

The roster is wide. ACC and retailer listings name Artëmer, Auroro Borgioni, Coomi, Jane Taylor, Lionheart, Lord Jewelry, Monica Rich Kosann, NeverNot, OX, Sethi Couture, Single Stone, Sorellina, Tap by Todd Pownell, Walters Faith, Jade Trau, Julius Klein Diamonds, LALAoUNIS, Nadine Aysoy, Omi Gems/Prive and Rahaminov among the 22 featured brands, designers and gem businesses. That mix of newer labels and long-established names gives the book a useful shopping lesson: if a house has been shaped by a clear creative partnership or a family line, its work is more likely to show recognizable proportions, recurring motifs and a consistent point of view, qualities that often translate into pieces people actually keep in rotation.

Bernstein brings deep insider context to that angle. She is a jewelry historian, journalist and former designer whose own Bethany B line sold to more than 250 stores in the United States and overseas during the 1990s. Her previous ACC title, Jewelry’s Shining Stars: The Next Generation, focused on 45 visionary women designers and signaled a continuing interest in the people behind contemporary jewelry, not just the finished pieces.

Soltani adds a newsroom and trade-journal perspective. She spent seven years as editor-in-chief of Rapaport, where she oversaw print, digital and social operations and hosted the Jewelry Connoisseur podcast. In this book, that kind of reporting background helps turn maker biographies into something practical for buyers: a clue to craftsmanship, continuity and whether a piece comes from a house with a real design language, not just a marketing story.