MELANIE GRANT

Melanie Grant has been a journalist for 25 years having worked at The Times, The FT, The Independent, The Guardian, The BBC and at The Economist where she spent 16 years overseeing luxury content for 1843 Magazine, their lifestyle sister publication. She was Executive Director of the Responsible Jewellery Council from 2023 – 2025 and now advises as Executive Consultant.  She has become the authority on jewellery as art and commodity, writing articles and giving talks at institutions including The Science Museum, The V&A, The British Museum, Parsons School of Art and Design, The GIA, New York Jewelry Week, 92nd Street Y, The MFA Boston, Christies, Sotheby’s and Mayfair Art Weekend.

Her first book Coveted on jewellery, art and economics was published by Phaidon in 2020. She wrote the foreword for Winged Beauty published by ACC Art Books in 2021 on pioneering jewellery artist Wallace Chan. She co-authored both 100 Years of Creativity for the centenary of Phaidon in 2023 and in 2025 The Jewelry Book also published by Phaidon which resulted in a worldwide book tour.  She also contributed to Brilliance: Jewelry Art and Fashion published by The MFA Boston and wrote Journey of a Jeweler on the life and times of Brazilian jewelry artist Silvia Furmanovich for Rizzoli in 2025.

In 2025 she taught a month-long summer school at Harvard University entitled Metals and Minerals: Introduction to the Art and Science of Jewelry with Dr Raquel Alonso Perez.  She writes articles for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Tatler, The New York Times, Town & Country, Wallpaper, The Goldsmith’s Company, Konfekt and Harrods Magazine. Melanie sits on the boards of New York Jewelry Week, The Black in Jewelry Coalition, Responsible Steel and ISEAL, the global membership organisation for credible sustainability standards. The British Society of Magazine Editors gave her an award in July 2021 and in March 2022, she won The Media Excellence category of The Gem Awards voted for by the Jewelers of America.

She made her first piece of jewellery with the Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery in November 2021 as a series of eight cuffs called ‘Self’ and she has started to curate, first for Sotheby’s New York, in conjunction with The Serpentine Galleries, for TEFAF Maastricht and Kensington Palace in their largest exhibition to date Crown to Couture.  She is an author, writer, art director and curator focused on her specialist subject – the art and economics of jewellery.