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Facing a Shortage of Luxury Artisans, LVMH Seeks Apprentices in the US

A Tiffany artisan sets sapphires in the tentacles of a high-jewellery jellyfish brooch.
A Tiffany artisan sets sapphires in the tentacles of a high-jewellery jellyfish brooch. (Tiffany & Co.)

On a recent afternoon at Tiffany & Co.’s jewellery studio in Manhattan, a dozen or so jewellers filed down gold engagement rings while a tiny vacuum installed at each of their workstations sucked up the gold dust to melt it down and recycle it. It’s a slow, meticulous task, in many ways little different from the process artisans have followed for hundreds of years.

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