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Hoffmann returns

This time 
in semiretirement

by Sally Mitani

posted 3/25/2009

Matthew Hoffmann presses one of his designs into the hands of a customer with such intensity that if you didn’t know he was a jeweler showing his wares, you might mistake him for the kind of nineteenth-century seducer who led good girls astray. “Look at these earrings,” he says, breathlessly. “Aren’t they beautiful? Black opals.”

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