Michael Christie is a self-taught gem artist specializing in unique functional essence bottles that are also jewelry. A background in race car driving, automotive, and welding, transferred into the unusual mechanics he employs to create his bottles. Most of the elaborate bottles take several months to complete, having up to fifteen stones and sixty individual pieces of gold. Michael's wife Susan Allen is responsible for the beautiful internal carvings that enhance Michael's essence bottles. Known for his fine gem pendants, now the pendants have evolved into Michael's essence bottles becoming a "Jewel for your Jewels", layer upon layer of surprises as the bottle unfolds to become earrings and pendant, backs to the earrings hidden in a secret compartment in the base which only hinging back of the main bottle reveal. Michael Christie's work has recently been displayed at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, and is presently on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.