Wallace Chan’s 70th birthday marks a monumental Venice Biennale debut (opens in new tab)

Famed for crafting a US$200 million, 11,551-diamond necklace for Hong Kong jewellery giant Chow Tai Fook in 2015, Wallace Chan has, for decades, been synonymous with jewellery-making. He invented the Wallace Cut, a three-dimensional carving technique, in 1987, and Wallace Chan Porcelain, notable for being five times stronger than steel, in 2018. After an illustrious career working with gemstones, the septuagenarian artist is now walking down a different path. Last month, in the historic chape...