Pepita or Elsa Peretti Diamonds by the Yard

Sea-smoothed pebbles and flat-set diamonds both arrive on the body as if dropped there. DoDo's Pepita, from 2000, models each gold bead on a stone worn down by waves and wind, a little irregular, and threads them into bracelets presented as unisex. Elsa Peretti's Diamonds by the Yard, from 1974, frames each diamond in a thin gold bezel and spaces it along a chain so fine the stones look scattered. Neither looks as if a jeweller had mounted it, which is the effect both were after.