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There are no shrinking carats here. Bold and legacy-defining, some of the most compelling jewels are a statement in confidence and originality. A king of American high jewelry, the late great David Webb had a s p a r k l y clientele t h a t included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Barbra Streisand. Webb was synonymous with larger-than-life glamour, from 1950s Tinseltown to 1960s Palm Beach; it was during the 1970s with its boho- disco-meets-Upper East Side aesthetic that he debuted his Totem collection: colorful, joyful pendants of stacked gems in modular geometric shapes. The collection has now been reissued and updated, but with the same penchant for maximalism — and, of course, created by hand in David Webb's Madison Avenue workshop. It's a perfect not-so-little something. By Christina Geyer DAVID WEBB David Webb Totem collection, designed in the 1970s, has been reissued with green onyx; rubellite; blue, pink, and orange sapphires; peridot; lapis; rhodonite; and other luscious stones, in 18K gold and platinum, $96,000 – $145,000, at Neiman Marcus, the David Webb boutique in Beverly Hills, New York. 92