Alchemy: A Passion for Jewels
“St. Clair presents a quirkily luxurious scrapbook of the experiences that led her to jewelry design, beginning in her junior year abroad in Italy, when she hunted down a Florentine artisan to help her make a necklace for her mother.” (New York Times)“An illuminating memoir.” (In Style)“With her proper private-school upbringing in Virginia, penchant forescape, and genteel-sounding name, Temple St. Clair Carr is the kind ofwoman Henry James might have immortalized as a heroine.” (Elle)“A Renaissance woman.” (Travel and Leisure)