Alchemy: A Passion for Jewels
&#8220;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.&#8221; (New York Times)&#8220;An illuminating memoir.&#8221; (In Style)&#8220;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.&#8221; (Elle)&#8220;A Renaissance woman.&#8221; (Travel and Leisure)