Incollect Magazine Issue 7

48 www.incollect.com HAPPENINGS A New Salon-Style Home for The Pat Saling Collection of Legendary Fine Jewelry Pat Saling is a fixture in the New York antique and estate jewelry market. She was managing director at Fred Leighton, the celebrated “jeweler to the stars,” for over 20 years and in 2000 launched her own jewelry business with offices at Rockefeller Center. Now she has expanded into a warm and elegant gallery in a glamorous building located on the Upper East Side. “Estate and antique jewelry was typically a very intimate business, so I would usually visit my clients in their homes, to see how it looked with their own pieces and outfits where they would try on my jewelry with their clothes,” Saling says. Her son, Parker, became a business partner six years ago, and as the market changed and expanded they realized they needed a more formal space to receive and show jewelry to their clients. Here she will be showcasing her curated collection of rare and one-of-a-kind masterworks. She specializes in pieces from Parisian jewelers of the 1920s through the 1950s, such as the designers Suzanne Belperron and René Boivin, along with signed pieces by Rare sapphire, diamond and emerald bracelet in platinum by Georges Fouquet, designed by Leveille, circa 1925. Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Boucheron and other luxury jewelry brands, as well as some beautiful 19th-century jewelry, much of which is unsigned but of superlative design and workmanship. Among the special things they currently have on display at the gallery is a fabulous Art Deco bracelet made by Georges Fouquet for the 1925 Paris Exposition, with sapphires, emeralds and diamonds which Saling describes as, “just one of those great examples of Art Deco jewelry.” Other special things in the gallery include a dazzling emerald necklace described by Saling, with characteristic modesty, as “a rather extraordinary piece.” By appointment only 28 East 72nd Street, New York, NY 10028 212.582.3355