BLACK IS ALWAYS CORRECT

This looks like a very ordinary necklace of two sizes of black beads. . . but it isn't. Look closer at the larger spheres and you'll find that they are very tactile, filled with little dents and striations, only because nature had a major hand in them, not some factory in Hong Kong. They are lava stone, the product of a volcano somewhere that spews hot magna that cooled eventually into a stunning material, nearly matte in surface and studded with character. The small black spacer beads are not black onyx as I had originally thought but black tourmaline, an exceedingly elegant stone. Price: $90.