Jewelry Creators Spotlights Family Legacies and Dynamic Design Duos

Jewelry rarely earns its strongest emotional charge from design alone. A new 176-page hardcover arriving May 26, 2026, traces how 22 jewelry and gemstone names become more meaningful when the work is shaped by family ties, close collaborations, and the long memory of a house.

ACC Art Books has split Jewelry Creators: Dynamic Duos and Generational Gems into two sections that make its thesis plain. Dynamic Duos focuses on siblings, parents and children, married couples, and close friends who built businesses together. Generational Gems turns to firms that grew through family legacy. The chapter list spans 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, Rahaminov Diamonds, and Selim Mouzannar. ACC describes the volume as a beautifully illustrated, behind-the-scenes look at the relationships at the core of the jewelry and gemstone world, complete with color photography and little-known stories.

The authors bring serious authority to that premise. Sonia Esther Soltani is listed as a jewelry content specialist and consultant, and spent seven years as editor-in-chief of Rapaport, where she also hosted the Jewelry Connoisseur podcast. Beth Bernstein is a jewelry historian, author, journalist, and former jewelry designer whose Bethany B collection sold to more than 250 stores in the United States and overseas during the 1990s. Bernstein also wrote Jewelry’s Shining Stars: The Next Generation in 2024, which makes this new book feel like a continuation of a broader project: documenting how jewelry talent moves forward without losing its roots.

That matters for shoppers because lineage is one of the clearest signals of depth in jewelry. A family-run workshop or a long-running partnership can suggest continuity in setting, stone selection, and design language, while a fresh logo with no visible history often offers less to hold onto. The names in this book point to a different kind of value, one built through repeated hands, inherited taste, and the patience to keep a recognizable point of view alive. In jewelry, that is often what turns a beautiful object into something worth keeping for the next generation.