FAMILY IS FOR KEEPS

Wellendorff celebrates its jewellery-making traditions and latest collection at an enchanting evening of music and finery. Emilie Yabut-Razon reports from a castle in Germany

It’s a night of magnificent revelry and dazzling jewels. A jazz duo performs as well-heeled guests, garbed in their elegant best, clink champagne glasses in the grand library of a castle in the German state of Hesse. A lavish banquet follows. The VIPs, who include couples from Hong Kong and Mainland China, are guests at the annual soiree held traditionally by the Wellendorff family to reveal its latest jewellery collection to its most valued clients. The venue this year, Schlosshotel Kronberg, adds a poignant connection for the family. Construction of the castle was completed in 1893, the year Ernst Alexander Wellendorff founded his jewellery company in Pforzheim, just a two-hour drive from Kronberg. Previously known as Schloss Friedrichshof, the Kronberg landmark is one of the country’s most impressive and well-preserved…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015

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