Boulle Finishes First at Battle on the Bricks with Rasmussen and Era Motorsport

Nick Boulle returns to race the TireRack.com Battle on the Bricks in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship event from Friday, September 18 to Sunday, September 20.  Boulle will be joining Era Motorsport for the first time alongside co-driver Christian Rasmussen. They will race the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in their No. 18 ORECA 07 LMP2.   Team members will rotate in and out of the car in selected pit-sops during this two-hour, forty-minute race, uniquely measured by time rather than laps to test participants in endurance and determination. The official Battle on the Bricks race takes place from 2:10 - 4:50 p.m. CT Sunday, September 20.  “I have been out of an LMP2 car and competition for a year, so it may take me a bit to warm up, but I'm super excited by the challenge we have coming up this weekend,” Boulle says.  “I'm particularly looking forward to getting to work with Era Motorsport. I know Kyle Tilley puts together a great car, and the team has clearly executed well in the past, so this was an opportunity we couldn't pass up.”  Boulle’s passion for racing began in early childhood and has played a defining role in shaping the character and work ethic he now uses to lead deBoulle’s Houston location. This year has been especially meaningful for the driver and businessman, as he recently became a father of two.   While much of his time lately has been spent in the backyard rather than on the racetrack, Boulle is eager to make a return to competition. The Indianapolis weekend is more than another race on the calendar, but it is a newfound opportunity to share with his growing family the perseverance, discipline, and values motorsports has brought in his own upbringing.   “This coming together for Indianapolis Motor Speedway could not have worked out better.”  Boulle says. “It's an iconic circuit that also happens to be one of my favorite tracks.”   Four separate classes of cars will race simultaneously on the 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course, where drivers from all over the world compete for an overall victory as well as first place within their respective class. The Battle on the Bricks atmosphere is highly competitive, fitting for the Motorsport capital of the World. The varying speeds of vehicles within the four classes make for intense racing and plenty of traffic to navigate throughout the course.  The four divisions of cars in the series are comprised of two styles including prototype, which showcases the latest automotive technology and are designed intentionally for the racetrack, and GT, which is based on road-going production models.  Boulle’s class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship falls under the first category. He will be driving the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2), a closed-cockpit car developed by four approved constructors. In addition to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, LMP2 cars are eligible to compete in other global series such as the FIA World Endurance Championship, which includes the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans.  The weekend-long championship unites racers and fans from across the world to celebrate a shared love of the track and fierce competition. Festivities begin on Friday, September 18.  Weekend Schedule (CST) Friday, September 18 2:25 - 3:55 p.m. – Practice 1  Saturday, September 19 9:45 - 11:15 a.m. – Practice 2 4:45 - 5:00 p.m. – LMP2 Qualifying  Sunday, September 20 2:10 - 4:50 p.m. – TireRack.com Battle on the Bricks Tune in to support the team from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. CT Sunday, September 20 on NBC and Peacock and follow our social media for updates as the racing weekend commences!   Find more streaming schedule information on www.imsa.com.   

A Study in Simplicity: The Daisy Collection Picture a field in the first real week of summer, the kind of morning where the light has not yet turned hard and gold, and the grass still holds the coolness of the night before. Scattered across it, catching the first light one petal at a time, are daisies, perhaps the simplest flower there is, yet somehow the one every field seems to gather itself around. They do not announce themselves. They simply open with the morning, appearing as though they have always belonged exactly where the light found them. Throughout history, the daisy has carried meanings far greater than its modest appearance suggests. Medieval Europe associated it with loyal love and fidelity, while the Victorians embraced it through the language of flowers as a symbol of innocence, constancy, and quiet devotion. Unlike roses or orchids, the daisy was never admired because it was rare. It was admired because it returned faithfully, season after season, reminding us that beauty often belongs to what endures rather than what astonishes. This is where deBoulle's summer begins, not with the loudest gemstone in the collection, but with the flower almost everyone learns to draw before they can write their own name. Where the Light Lands Crafted in 18K yellow gold, the deBoulle Collection Daisy Necklace gathers more than five carats of round brilliant diamonds into a bloom that seems to hold the warmth of early morning light. Rather than overwhelming the eye, the diamonds work together with remarkable softness, allowing the piece to feel luminous instead of ostentatious. Like the flower itself, its beauty comes not from excess, but from balance. The deBoulle Collection Daisy Earrings in Yellow Gold continue that same conversation. Set in yellow gold with 4.25 carats of pavé diamonds, they catch light the way petals catch the morning sun: quietly, consistently, and without effort. Worn together, the necklace and earrings feel less like a matching set than a continuation of the same landscape, carrying a little of that summer field long after the morning itself has passed. What the Rain Leaves Behind But no summer belongs entirely to sunlight. The most memorable seasons are interrupted by passing rain, the kind that beads across every petal without weighing the flower down, somehow making the entire landscape more luminous for having passed through it. The white gold line in the Daisy Collection captures that quieter moment, where brilliance shifts from warm to cool, and diamonds flash like droplets resting on fresh petals. Fittingly, the French word for daisy, marguerite, traces its origins to the Greek word for pearl—a gemstone born from water rather than fire. It is an unexpected lineage for such an unassuming flower, yet an entirely fitting one. The deBoulle Collection Daisy Necklace in White Gold carries the same floral composition as its yellow gold counterpart, but with a cooler, more ethereal presence. Its 5.30 carats of diamonds seem to shimmer rather than glow, while the deBoulle Collection Daisy Earring in White Gold, with their fuller 6.75-carat silhouette, recall the brilliance of a flower still holding the last traces of a summer shower. The Beauty of Everyday Not every summer morning asks to be remembered through spectacle. Most unfold quietly: over coffee on a porch, afternoon walks that last longer than expected, dinners that begin before sunset, and ordinary days that later become the ones we remember most. These are the moments the Petite Daisy pieces seem made for. Available in both yellow and white gold, the Petite Daisy Necklace distills the same floral silhouette into something effortlessly wearable, while the deBoulle Collection Petite Daisy Earrings in White Gold bring a subtle brilliance that feels less like occasion dressing and more like part of the wearer herself. They are the pieces reached for instinctively, worn often enough to become familiar, and eventually difficult to imagine leaving behind. Like the flower that inspired them, they ask for very little attention, yet somehow become the pieces noticed most. The Flower That Never Grew Ordinary Centuries before modern jewelry collections, the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer rose before dawn simply to watch a daisy open, calling it, without irony, the "empress of flowers." Hundreds of years later, G.K. Chesterton offered perhaps its most enduring praise: "It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them." A field may appear to be filled with identical flowers, yet no two are exactly the same. Their beauty has never depended on rarity or extravagance, but on quiet consistency: the simple certainty that they will return each summer just as they always have. The Daisy Collection reflects that same understanding.  Whether expressed in the warmth of yellow gold or the quiet luminosity of white gold, each piece celebrates a flower that has never needed to be extraordinary to become unforgettable. It opens because morning arrives. It endures because it remains true to itself. Perhaps that is why, after centuries of changing fashions and countless more exotic blooms, the daisy still captures our attention. It has never needed to be rare to be worth looking at twice.

If You Could Keep Only Five: A Capsule Theory of Jewelry There is a particular kind of clarity that comes from constraint. Ask someone to choose one outfit to wear for a year, one book to keep, one meal to eat for the rest of their life, and the answer reveals less about preference than about what actually matters to them. Few people ask this question of their jewelry box, yet it might be the most useful one to ask of it. Not which pieces are most expensive, or most recently acquired, but which few, if every other piece disappeared tomorrow, would still feel essential. That question matters whether you're standing at the very beginning of a collection, deciding which pieces are worth acquiring first, or standing in front of a fully built one, deciding what to take when you can't bring it all. The five categories that follow are built to answer both questions at once: where a collection should begin, and what it should never be without. A favorite piece is often beloved for a single reason, a memory, an occasion, a moment it was worn. A foundational piece has to justify itself differently. It has to hold up across every context a life might ask of it, not just the one it was bought for. It cannot depend on the occasion. A piece reserved for galas, or one built only for the office, fails the moment circumstances change. It cannot depend on the company. A true foundational piece has to look complete in isolation, with no other jewelry to lean on for support. It cannot depend on trends. What survives the test of decades is rarely the boldest design, but the most resolved one. It cannot depend on rarity. The most valuable piece in a collection is often the one worn so frequently it becomes unremarkable, not the one saved for a single extraordinary night. Four categories satisfy these conditions with real consistency, but the fifth belongs to something else entirely. The Earrings: Why Every Collection Starts With Pearls Every other gemstone is mined, cut, and faceted by human hands long after the earth has finished forming it. A pearl takes a different path entirely, grown by a living oyster and shaped by years of patient cultivation rather than a cutter's wheel. That quiet distinction is part of why, for most of recorded history, pearls were valued above diamonds rather than below them. Egyptian and Roman aristocracy wore them as unmistakable status. Renaissance portraiture used them as visual shorthand for virtue, wealth, and refinement, often painted with more care than the sitter's face. Long before the diamond industry shaped modern taste, the pearl was the gem a woman was given first, and the one she was buried in. The deBoulle Collection Diamond and South Sea Pearl Earrings carry that inheritance forward without flattening it into nostalgia. A pavé diamond hoop gives way to a lustrous South Sea baroque pearl, with a girandole-style drop of pear-shaped diamonds beneath it, moving gently with every turn. The result is restrained enough for a boardroom and luminous enough for evening, which is exactly why pearls have outlasted every passing era of jewelry that tried to replace them.  The Necklace: The One Piece That Lives Two Lives Long before necklaces were chosen for fashion, they were chosen for protection and identity, talismans worn close to the body because they were never meant to be removed. That same logic, a single piece meant to be worn constantly rather than occasionally, defines what a foundational necklace has to do today: hold its own completely alone, on a plain shirt, on an ordinary day, and still feel entirely finished dressed up for dinner that evening, with no layering and no support required.  The deBoulle Collection Bezel Set Diamond Necklace is built for exactly that double life. Its bezel-set diamonds, totaling 0.81 carats in 18K white gold, create a clean, continuous line of brilliance, understated enough for daily wear, polished enough to carry straight into evening plans without needing to change first.  There is a particular elegance in a piece that never needs explaining or accompanying. It simply works, in every room it enters, which is rarer than it sounds. The Bracelet: Built for the Hand That Never Stops Moving Of all jewelry categories, bracelets are the ones subjected to the most physical life: desks, doorways, daily motion, years of incidental contact. Historically, this is part of why bangles became one of the most classic bracelet forms across cultures, valued not despite their simplicity but because of it.  The deBoulle Collection Diamond Bypass Bangle honors that durability through architecture rather than ornament. Its open bypass silhouette, in sleek 18K white gold, wraps the wrist with 1.02 total carats of diamonds concentrated at each end. Worn alone, it reads as a complete, sculptural statement. Worn alongside other pieces later, it leaves enough negative space to layer without ever needing to. The Ring: Layering Without Looking Layered Stacked rings have a way of tipping quickly from elegant to overwhelming, especially once too many bands compete for space on the same finger. This isn't a new problem. The instinct to layer rings has existed for as long as rings themselves, and the most enduring solution has always been the same one: a single design built to carry the look of several, without the hand ever needing to carry the actual weight of them. The deBoulle Collection Triple Stacked Ring solves that problem by construction. Three bands, seamlessly joined on one side, read as a considered stack rather than an accumulation: two polished 18K yellow gold bands frame a center row of round brilliant diamonds (0.22 cts.). It's a classic layering piece in spirit, the visual rhythm of multiple rings collected over time, without the cost, the upkeep, or the risk of overcrowding a single hand. The result is a ring that looks layered, never overwhelming, and never anything less than considered. The Fifth Piece: Your Signature The first four pieces earn their place through usefulness. The fifth earns its place through affection. Every collection contains at least one piece that resists practical explanation. It may be a gemstone chosen simply because the color feels familiar. It may be an heirloom inherited from someone impossible to replace, or a design that serves no purpose beyond delight. This is the piece that turns a collection from disciplined to personal. For some, that signature is found in color. Certain gemstones possess a way of becoming inseparable from the person who wears them, appearing so consistently that they begin to feel less like accessories and more like part of an identity. A vivid ruby ring, such as the deBoulle High Jewelry Diamond Oval Ruby Ring, carries this kind of presence naturally. Centered around a remarkable Mozambique ruby and framed by half-moon diamonds, it is the sort of piece remembered long after the details of an outfit have faded. Others are drawn to a different register entirely. The deBoulle Collection Oval Sapphire and Diamond Earrings demonstrate how a single color can become a personal hallmark. Their rich blue sapphires possess a depth that feels both distinctive and enduring, the kind of detail people come to associate with a person over time. For others still, the signature is not a gemstone but a symbol. Certain motifs endure because they communicate something instantly and intuitively. The heart has occupied this role for centuries, expressing affection, memory, and connection in a form that requires no translation. Pieces such as the deBoulle Collection Posh Stackable Ring with Diamond Heart Center or the deBoulle Collection Heart Diamond Necklace in Yellow Gold transform that symbolism into something wearable, allowing sentiment to become part of daily life rather than something reserved for special occasions. What Five Pieces Prove A capsule collection is not measured by how much it contains, but by how completely each piece earns its place. Whether this is the beginning of a collection still being built or the short list packed when an entire jewelry box cannot come along, the same four categories remain: earrings, necklace, bracelet, and ring, each tested against versatility, longevity, and wear. The fifth answers to a different standard altogether. It is there because it is loved. At deBoulle, the most enduring collections are rarely assembled all at once. They are built gradually, piece by piece, through milestones, celebrations, travels, and quiet moments of personal significance. Over time, what begins as jewelry becomes something more familiar: a record of experiences, relationships, and memories carried forward. Perhaps that is why the jewelry box has always held more than adornment alone. It holds the pieces we return to instinctively, the ones that accompany us through changing seasons of life, and the one piece we would keep even if every practical argument suggested otherwise. And that, in the end, may be the real measure of a complete collection: pieces reached for without thought, and one piece reached for with feeling. The beauty of the fifth piece is that it follows no universal rule. It may be defined by color, symbolism, craftsmanship, or memory. It may be the most valuable piece in a collection, or the least. The only requirement is that it feels unmistakably personal. Because while the first four pieces are chosen for how well they fit into a life, the fifth is chosen for how completely it reflects one. That, in the end, is the real measure of a complete collection: pieces reached for without thought, and one piece reached for with feeling.