Chocolate Treats

It's an ancient gift-giver's quandary: jewelry or chocolate? Now you have a third choice: chocolate jewelry. Boucheron, the venerable Place Vendme jeweler, has launched a new line of rings in creamy-brown gold. They were designed by creative director Solange Azagury-Partridge, who was inspired when her research team showed her a sample of the "chocolate" gold. "I had been coming up with turns of phrase using bouche (the French word for mouth)," Azagury-Partridge says. "Like l'eau la bouche ... mouth-watering. It's all about being edible and delicious, and that color of gold symbolized it perfectly." She turned the specially treated material...