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private estate This 3,862-square-foot, fourbedroom, three-bathroom home is located on a private lane off Bishop’s Lodge Road, and its 2.4 acres offer views of the eastern foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The home’s main level includes a formal dining room, a living room, a library that can be used as a bedroom, and two additional bedrooms. A light-filled stairway with a custom wrought-iron handrail leads to the second-floor master suite, which has a private portal outside. A study/office is also on the second level. Special features throughout the home include flagstone and wood floors, granite counters, and custom doors and cabinets.
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List price: $1.95 million Contact: Claire Lange, Claire Lange Real Estate, 505-670-1420, clairelange.com
Stacking bands with yellow gold and multicolor gems are some of Valerie Naifeh’s most popular pieces.
This necklace showcases granulated 22-kt gold patterns and pink and green tourmaline stones.
John Rippel U.S.A. Trunk Show award–winning jewelry designer Valerie Naifeh brings her stunning goldand-gemstone pieces to John Rippel U.S.A. for a trunk show this Thursday and Friday, September 25 and 26. Naifeh, a permanent artist at John Rippel, makes hand-fabricated white- and yellow-gold rings, earrings, bracelets, and pendants featuring the centuries-old art of granulation, which involves designing detailed patterns from tiny spheres of gold laid on beaten sheets of gold. Naifeh’s one-of-a-kind pieces feature colored gemstones such as tourmaline, tanzanite, emerald, and sapphire as well as turquoise, lapis, coral, and pearls. Visitors to the trunk show are encouraged to bring along their inherited or unused jewelry, as Naifeh will repurpose it into a custom design. “The style of a piece of jewelry might get ‘old,’ but the gemstones don’t,” Naifeh says. “I can update what [customers] have into something that is an expression of who they are.”—Cristina Olds John Rippel U.S.A. Trunk Show featuring jewelry designer Valerie Naifeh, September 25 & 26, 12–4 pm, 111 Old Santa Fe Trail, johnrippel.com September 25, 2014 NOW
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