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A tumbled piece of tiger’s-eye may calm you down.

“And tiger’s-eye is for stability,” he says, adding a striated brown one.

They’re just the right companions for, say, falling-apart braised veal cheek on a ragout of tiger’s-eye beans, tinted green with kale pesto.

Thanks to other luxury items such as Balenciaga’s leather handbags festooned with images of kittens, Gucci’s exuberant cat-appliqué sweater and Van Cleef & Arpels’s latest cat pin, made of yellow gold, onyx and tiger’s-eye, it is wholly possible to wear one’s love for cats on one’s sleeve and remain chic.

I like the M.I.C.A.’s chunky bangle style, with white or black snakeskin that features lapis lazuli and pearls on the black model and tiger’s-eye with obsidian on the white one.