Haute new pieces from today's top jewelers such as Cartier and Bourcheron allow you to rock elegant stones, casually. Here's our top picks.
tassels? A magnetic jeweled pocket that doubles as a cuff? A carabiner dripping in precious stones? If such adornments don’t sound likeget ready for the new French revolution. Rather than sticking to the standard fare , Boucheron, Cartier, Chaumet, and other establishment ateliers are devising entirely new—and often quite casual—ways to rock extravagant stones.
And he doesn’t like the “shiny” look of new, perfectly faceted emeralds, either. He prefers old, included stones with character—for example, the seven-carat Colombian emerald he purchased last year and set in an ebony and gold ring. His friend fashion designer Tamara Mellon purchased it at Spiro’s St. Barts salon last winter. “I won’t find another like that gem,” he says.
What appears remarkably simple is the most complex to achieve; it’s an exercise in restraint. “We focus on creating a harmonious coexistence of materials, textures, and colors that embody the researched simplicity we wish to evoke in each creation,” says Yasmin Hemmerle, Christian’s wife and cohead of the company.
Chapter II of the maison’s Deep Time high-jewelry collection—its largest to date—zeroes in on everything from DNA molecules to seeds to explore, in gems, the origin of life. Sprouting from the mind of Amfitheatrof, the “seeds” of the necklace seen here take on much larger dimensions than their real-life counterparts: six oval-cut rubellite tourmalines totaling 146.07 carats affixed to the bottom of a hollowed yellow-gold honeycomb-patterned collar set with diamonds.
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