Blog — Books

Sharing with you my thoughts on the book “The Cartiers”.

I wrote before Christmas about the new book I was about to read. Holidays made it a bit longer but I am happy to finally share this experience with you. Briefly, it was awesome. Wordily, here is why I liked it. Stoned is more than a book about pretty things. It’s an attempt to understand history through the lens of desire, and a look at the surprising consequences of the economics of scarcity and demand. First of all I need to tell something personal – why do I love jewelry? Aside from purely unexplainable chemistry and affection there is something absolutely reasonable about my...