{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/632de9638ad88f001368c2fc/6501934f2da5b200116077ee?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"A Life Curated with Vivienne Becker","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/632de9638ad88f001368c2fc/1694602579171-612a8e5b1324741124c9182c19bae5e0.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This episode of a Life Curated is kindly sponsored by <strong>Minka Jewels - @minkajewels</strong></p><p><br></p><p>For the fifth episode of&nbsp;<strong>A Life Curated,&nbsp;</strong>I sit down with the world authority on jewellery history, FT journalist and curator,&nbsp;<strong>Vivienne Becker.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In this charming conversation, Vivienne tells me about how she started in the&nbsp;<strong>antique markets of Notting Hill,</strong>&nbsp;her&nbsp;<strong>big break</strong>&nbsp;by a photocopying machine, making fish fingers for her daughter when<strong>&nbsp;Madeleine Albright&nbsp;</strong>called, what<strong>&nbsp;she looks for in an emerging jeweller,</strong>&nbsp;what she<strong>&nbsp;loves and laments&nbsp;</strong>about the jewellery world, how&nbsp;<strong>JAR changed the industry,</strong>her deep passion for&nbsp;<strong>Lalique,</strong>&nbsp;why history and design are crucial to jewellery making, the<strong>&nbsp;latest trends</strong>&nbsp;and much, much more!</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Nolan Browne "}