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Chanel high jewelry inspired by Russia

Published on July 3, 2019

Bracciale della linea ispirata al folklore russo

Chanel’s new fine jewelry collection: Le Paris Russe de Chanel ♦ ︎

In 1924 Coco Chanel launched the eau de parfum Cuir de Russie. It is not a random name. The heady leather scent was what the French fashion queen linked to her relationship with Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich, cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, who had been exiled following the assassination of Rasputin. Short, but intense, as they say. In any case, the special relationship between France and Russia, and between Chanel and Russian culture did not stop. Coco Chanel herself, for example, was never in Russia, yet she had artist friends like composer Igor Stravinsky and Sergiei Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, among her friends.

Anello con spiga di grano, oro giallo e bianco, diamanti

According to the biographers of the designer, Coco Chanel was so fascinated by the great country of the East to even hire Russian nobles, who fled to Paris after the October Revolution: a prince of St. Petersburg was the private secretary, while Dimitri’s sister, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna was persuaded to open an embroidery workshop, Kitmir, which worked exclusively for the Maison Chanel.

Spilla stile onorificenza militare in oro giallo e bianco, tormaline, spinelli rosa, granati mandarino, diamanti

The Tsar’s double-headed eagle is now back in the new collection of haute joaillerie named Le Paris Russe de Chanel: 69 pieces divided into two lines. The first celebrates the aristocracy, the palaces of St. Petersburg and Moscow, the military orders. The other line, instead, is inspired by Russian folklore, with the typical strong color embroidery. But there are also the ears of wheat which are an allusion to the boundless plains of Russia, but which are also the symbol of the Maison, together with the camellias, another flower that appears in the collection. Giulia Netrese

Orecchini della linea ispirata al folklore russo

Anello Roubachka in oro giallo, con diamanti bianchi e fancy yellow

Bozzetto di collana della collezione Le Paris Russe de Chanel

Collana-copricapo Sarafane in oro bianco, perle, diamanti

Bracciale Roubachka in oro bianco e diamanti

Bracciale Aigle Cambon in oro giallo, quarzo e diamanti

Anello Sarafane, oro bianco, diamanti bianchi e fancy

The Modern Beauties by de Grisogono

Published on June 28, 2019

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Chiaroscuro Gold Ribbons. Orecchini a forma di un nastro d'oro che si avvolge intorno all'orecchio, interamente rivestito di diamanti bianchi, con diamanti neri sul retro. Sull'orecchio opposto i diamanti neri prendono il sopravvento. Con diamanti pendenti taglio pera. Questi orecchini presentano una parte staccabile. La clip superiore, indipendente, può essere indossata con la parte inferiore per creare un earcuff

The high jewelry of Modern Beauties collection by de Grisogono, presented with the Haute Couture in Paris ♦ ︎

The summer Haute Couture week in Paris, from Sunday 30 June to Thursday 4 July 2019, has one more protagonist: de Grisogono. The Maison of Geneva has decided to present at the same time at the fashion shows a collection of fine jewelry symbolically linked to the style of de Grisogono. The collection is called Modern Beauties. That is to say luxury, but with a license to amaze. Unique, strong, unmistakable pieces. In 20 years they will be perhaps jewels that collectors will compete in auctions, assuming that someone wants to sell them.

de grisogono high jewellery earrings 1 — Chiaroscuro Gold Ribbons. Orecchini a forma di un nastro d’oro che si avvolge intorno all’orecchio, interamente rivestito di diamanti bianchi, con diamanti neri sul retro. Sull’orecchio opposto i diamanti neri prendono il sopravvento. Con diamanti pendenti taglio pera. Questi orecchini presentano una parte staccabile. La clip superiore, indipendente, può essere indossata con la parte inferiore per creare un earcuff

The collection consists of four pieces, of which two make up a set of earrings and necklace. There are all the styles of de Grisogono: white and black diamonds, enveloped shapes, like the mix of stones with different cuts.

Party Spirit. Ear cuff asimmetrici interamente rivestiti di diamanti bianchi e neri, e montati su una struttura di titanio per assicurare la massima leggerezza. Ognuno con un diamante taglio pera a ciascuna delle estremità. Il collier a tre fili, che associa diamanti con differenti tagli, briolette e taglio brillante per la parte di pavé. In oro bianco, con, 91 diamanti bianchi taglio briolette e 912 diamanti bianchi

Perhaps the definition of rock’n’roll jewelry, proposed by de Grisogono, is too reductive for a style that has found its place on the top floors of luxury. They are not jewels by groupies, but to be worn even if you are not a model who walks on the red carpet. Provided there is someone willing to give such jewels to a young model. Judge for yourself.

Brown Diamond Rule. Collier con grande diamante brown ovale di 25, 09 carati, 182 diamanti brown, incastonati con la tecnica del serti clos, e 1167 diamanti bianchi taglio brillante su oro bianco e oro rosa

Entwine me. Orecchini intrecciati con diamanti in tre dimensioni. Montati su oro bianco, i 431 diamanti baguette decorano i gioielli e sono tagliati su misura per assecondare le curve del design e l'oro cesellato — Entwine me. Orecchini intrecciati con diamanti in tre dimensioni. Montati su oro bianco, i 431 diamanti baguette decorano i gioielli e sono tagliati su misura per assecondare le curve del design e l’oro cesellato

Collier in oro bianco, con 91 diamanti bianchi taglio briolette (circa 65,369 carati) e di 912 diamanti bianchi (circa 17,33 carati)

Bulgari’s Cinemagia

Published on June 20, 2019

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Collier con crisoprasio per 220 carati, 10 perle di ametista, 9 perle di tormalina rosa, 6 diamanti taglio marquise, 24 diamanti taglio brillante e pavé di diamanti

The superb Cinemagia collection by Bulgari: high-jewelry at the highest level ♦

What distinguishes fine jewelry from high jewelry? We explain it to you: it is the rustling of a film that flows through an old projector. You don’t believe it? And then you let’s look at the Action! necklace, which is part of the new collection of a few, exceptional pieces by Bulgari. The collection is called Cinemagia and, as its name indicates, is dedicated to the amazing world of cinema.

Collana Action! in oro bianco, diamanti, zirconio nero

The Action! necklace, that we said, is composed of 32 carats of white diamonds and black zirconium. And celebrates the invention of the celluloid film of 1885. The shape, in fact, evokes the very shape and flexibility of a cinematographic film. Inside, however, there is a spring mechanism hidden behind the round element that resembles the coils on which the film is wrapped. By rotating this element you can hear the sound similar to that of the old projectors. The spring then returns the element to its original position.

Bulgari, alta gioielleria, collier con zaffiri per 38,89 carati e 188 smeraldi, diamanti

It is not just a little game, but it is one of those refinements that concern, in fact, only high jewelry. Cinemagia, on the other hand, evokes something magical, as cinema was perceived at its debut, over a century ago. And the pieces presented by Bulgari are, in fact, worthy of the best tradition of the Maison. A necklace inspired by pirate treasures, of course those found in adventure films, combines 38.89 carats of sapphires of different origins, 188 small emeralds cabochons cut, diamonds, and a 500-hour hand-crafted process. Another necklace has a geometric chain on which there are over 270 emeralds and diamonds, on which is attached a pendant that encloses an octagonal cut Colombian emerald with an octagonal cut of 24.46 carats. And the other pieces are no different: watching them is a real show. Like being at the cinema.

Collana con topazio, rubellite, citrino, ametista, morganite, iolite, quarzo verde, apatite

Collezjone Cinemagia, collana in oro rosa, madreperla, acquamarina, zaffiri e diamanti

Bulgari, alta gioielleria, collana con smeraldo ottagonale

High jewelry in Technicolor by de Grisogono

Published on April 10, 2019

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Anello in oro giallo, diamante giallo e diamanti neri

Five high jewelery rings signed by de Grisogono: they will be presented at the Cannes Film Festival. In fact the collection is called Technicolor ♦ ︎

The Ginevra Maison of high jewelery de Grisogono has two fixed points: participation in the Cannes Film Festival and a good dose of humor. For 2019 he decided to combine both aspects for the 17th appointment in Cannes: de Grisogono chosed to call his creations under the name of Technicolor. A name that has made the history of cinema: Technicolor was the second color cinematography procedure to be used on a large scale and, untill 1952, the most used in the United States. It was a synonym of great quality, of strong visual impact, of great films.

But for de Grisogono the word Technicolor brings together five new high jewelery rings. Obviously with very colored stones.

The five rings have as many central stones: ruby, emerald, sapphire, yellow diamond, white diamond. These stones combine with other stones. Combinations that the Maison sees as allusions to the history of cinema. Like the great masterpieces signed by great directors, also these rings are unique pieces. In short, each of these rings has its own script and a director (de Grisogono) who tells their story and their virtues.

The first ring is in green tone. It is made of 18K white gold, with a coussin-cut Colombian emerald (11.60 carats) and 532 black diamonds (approx. 11.30 carats) in the center. A contrast, between green and black, reinforced by the large lower corolla that rotates around a magnetic beryl that can move.

Anello con rubini cabochon e diamante taglio brillante

The second ring is in 18K rose gold, with a brilliant-cut white diamond (7.12 ct), 21 cabochon-cut rubies (15.70 ct), 111 brilliant-cut rubies (approx. 16.50 ct) and 162 white diamonds (about 2.75 carats). The asymmetry between the cuts of the ruby (cabochon and brilliant) goes up to the profile of the ring, covered with over a hundred brilliant cut diamonds. In addition, the ring is dotted with rose gold and black rhodium gold beads. In the center, mounted on a setting of pink gold, there is the white diamond of over 7 carats.

Anello con rubino birmano taglio cuscino

This ring in 18K white gold has a Coussin-cut Burmese ruby (18.13 ct), 46 white cut briolette diamonds (approx. 45.11 ct) and 319 white diamonds (approx. 3.47 ct) in the center. It has a Haute Couture setting technique, which has become the jeweler’s signature, which gives total freedom to the stones, leaving them appear as if they were floating in the air.

Anello con zaffiro, diamanti taglio marquise e smeraldi

Ring in 18K white gold, in the center a blue oval cut sapphire (16.89 carat), 21 marquise cut emeralds (approx. 4.05 carats), 17 marquise cut white diamonds (approx. 3.50 carats), 55 emeralds (approx. 0 , 50 carats) and 15 blue sapphires (approx. 0.04 carats). It’s a vintage touch (maybe), but in addition to sapphire it hits the body of the ring covered with emeralds and marquise-cut diamonds. The perfect symmetry of the marquise cut contrasted by the asymmetry of the setting which for diamonds and emeralds reaches the bezel of the blue sapphire.

Anello con al centro un diamante giallo taglio coussin di 5,77 carati e diamanti neri

In de Grisogono’s creations, black diamonds could not be missing, almost a signature of the Geneva jeweler. This 18K yellow gold ring in the center shows a yellow coussin cut diamond (5.77 carats), 21 yellow baguette-cut diamonds (approximately 2.85 carats), but also 401 brilliant-cut black diamonds (approx. 7.15 carats). It does a great effect.

Schreiner, luxury made in Germany

Published on April 2, 2019

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Collier e orecchini con diamanti e rubini

High jewelry in a big way with the German Maison Schreiner. For those who love luxury ♦ ︎

Who said that high jewelery in Europe is only found in certain places, such as Place Vendôme in Paris or in the laboratories of the Maison of Valenza and Vicenza? Even in Germany high jewelery flourishes, also thanks to Schreiner. The jewelry company is named after the founder, Gerhard Schreiner, who in 1988, after a trip to Colombia, started his business in jewelry market. We are talking about a jeweler, but also a German entrepreneur. Unlike many other small companies, Schreiner is organized in a big way, with 300 employees and designers working in Italy and Spain.

The Maison loves to point out that the jewels of the Schreiner collections are found today in many royal houses in all countries.

Schreiner, parure di diamanti e smeraldi

Because the fine jewelry that Schreiner proposes is of the opulent, rich kind, which makes status. Great necklaces, with lots of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, choker and earrings, sumptuous rings and, sometimes, even top quality pearls. Jewels for those who are not afraid to show their wealth and, indeed, want to show it. Alessia Mongrando

Colla a e orecchini con perle, smeraldi e diamanti

Set con turchesi e diamanti — Set in oro con turchesi e diamanti

Collana e orecchini con perle di smeraldi

Schreiner, set di collana, bracciale, orecchini e anello in oro bianco e diamanti

Collana e orecchini con diamanti e rubini

Choker e orecchini in oro bianco e diamanti

Van Cleef & Arpels, high jewelery in red

Published on March 15, 2019

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Collana della collezione Treasure of Rubies

Red colour celebrates the new high jewelery collection by Van Cleef & Arpels, Treasure of Rubies ♦ ︎

Van Cleef & Arpels in red. It is the color that distinguishes the Treasure of Rubies fine jewelry collection, a new large line of 60 jewels that follows that of Emeraude en Majest in 2016, and continues the research of Pierres de Caractère, that is of special gems. In all, red stones were used for 3,000 carats that come from Tanzania, Madagascar, Mozambique, Burma. Only in this way the Parisian Maison has managed to compose this collection that in many ways resembles the great art deco jewels of the thirties, such as the famous peony brooches, or the famous ballerinas by Van Cleef & Arpels.

As always, for the Treasure of Rubies collection the Maison used the serti mystérieux, the technique invented by Van Cleef that allows you to juxtapose the stones without seeing a metal frame.

Queen of the collection is perhaps Flaming Ruby, a necklace that uses a rare ruby of over 25 carats cut into a cushion, to highlight the quality of the stone. Among other things, ruby has been one of the favorite stones since the foundation of the jewelery brand, thanks to the many trips of the Arpels brothers in India and the Far East in search of precious red gems. The rubies of the Treasure of Rubies collection are used in the Van Cleef style, with flowers, ribbons and oriental motifs composed with the combination of diamonds, on pink or white gold. Rubies, diamonds and class: nothing can be more precious. Giulia Netrese

Anello in oro bianco, diamanti marquise, rubino taglio cuscino

Bracciale Berunda della collezione Treasure of Rubies

Orecchini con diamanti e rubini, i pendenti sono removibili

Rendering di anello con serti mistérieux

Graff in yellow

Published on February 22, 2019

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L'orologio con pavé di 60 diamanti gialli per un totale di oltre 25 carati

Preview Baselworld: the jewel watch by Graff covered with 60 yellow diamonds ♦ ︎

Preview of the news from Baselworld, the great watch and jewelery fair scheduled for the second half of March. The preview is about a jewel. Or a clock, as you like. But it is difficult to classify a timepiece like that of Graff as a simple useful object. It’s, rather, high watchmaking. It is no coincidence that Graff is a London House famous for its diamond jewelery.

The bracelet that marks the hours presented by Graff has a pavé of 60 yellow diamonds for a total of over 25 carats.

The diamonds are mounted on a case, a bracelet and a yellow gold dial. It is not just luxury, a lot of luxury, but also technical innovation: Graff has invented a joining system to create flexible bracelets, which can also use stones on the strap. The goldsmith work was developed in London, while the part concerning the watch was from the Swiss branch Graff Luxury Watches. Other jewelry-watches will then be presented at Baselworld. Five years ago, in 2014, Graff presented Hallucination, a women’s watch covered by fancy 110-carat diamonds, perhaps the most precious watch ever created. The following years followed The Fascination, with 152.96 carats of white diamonds, valued at 40 million dollars, with a 38.13-carat pear cut diamond, removable, in the center. And in 2017 the highlight was Princess Butterfly Secret Watch, covered with diamonds and precious stones on a frame that concealed the watch.

L'orologio.bracciale Hallucination — L’orologio.bracciale Hallucination

Orologio con segreto di Graff, alta gioielleria

Dior, high-jewelry three time

Published on July 14, 2018

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Anello in oro rosa con diamanti, zaffiri blu e rosa, tormalina e tanzanite al centro

A new collection of high jewelry by the Maison: lace, gold and stones with Dior Dior Dior ♦ ︎

After the gardens of Versailles and the baroque decorations of the great residence of the French kings, here is another noble inspiration from Victoire de Castellane, who leads Dior’s fine jewelry with great expertise. The new collection, in fact, is inspired by the art of lace. After all, it was a type of fabric widely used by those who lived in the court of Versailles. The high jewelry collection includes 65 pieces. And, to testify that the maximum of the novelty is what has already happened, Victoire de Castellane has used Christian Dior’s archival images, choosing between embroidery and arabesques to make necklaces, rings, bracelets and earrings rich in emeralds, blue sapphires and rose, rubies, tanzanites, diamonds, etc.
Presented in the Paris haute couture week, the collection had an unusual stage: the Museum of Modern Art, where it was visible for three days by the public, together with a exhibition of Dior’s jewelery production, which celebrated its 20th anniversary: in fact, it was created in 1998. In short, from the aristocratic past to the democratic present.
The decision to draw inspiration from embroideries and lace, however, is also linked to the other soul of Dior, that of fashion. In fact, the effect of the lace recreated with gold threads is present throughout the collection and recalls Christian Dior’s atelier. And the collection underlines this “diorism”: it is not by chance that it has been entitled Dior, Dior, Dior. In short, Dior three times.
Large cocktail rings with colored stones of appropriate size, bracelets with shimmering stones, bracelets where flowers appear among the embroideries and integrate with the light gold embroidery. Jewels worthy of the Dior tradition and the most noble haute couture. Matilde de Bounville

Orecchini in oro bianco, diamanti e zaffiri rosa

Bracciale double dentelle velours, in oro bianco, con opale e diamanti

Orecchini Organza, in oro bianco, tormaline menta

Bracciale Tulle in oro rosa, con zaffiro rosa

Dior, oro giallo, diamanti, smeraldi, tormalina tipo Paraiba, granato, tsavorite

Bracciale Popeline in oro rosa, zaffiri, ametista, smeraldi e tanzanite

Cartier’s Coloratura

Published on July 13, 2018

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Anello Holika in oro bianco, con rubellite al centro, crisoberillo, tormalina

Coloratura collection by Cartier: 240 incredible pieces of high jewelery ♦ ︎

What is more infinite than a nuance? Unable to count the individual points that make up a hue. On the other hand, it is possible to paint with colors a maxi collection of fine jewelry, as Cartier did: 240 pieces, each a world in itself. The collection is called Coloratura, an Italian word that refers to the virtuosity of lyrical singers. In Italian, in fact, it is a term that is used for a particular kind of singing, those variations, virtuosities, often improvised by the singer with vocalizations, trills and vocal preciousness. In short, something exceptional and pleasant. If you carry this concept into the world of high jewelery, the coloratura of the Coloratura collection turns into a kind of hyper virtuosity of contrasts between Asia and the West, references to Japan, the complexity of India and even the European imaginary of Africa. In this way it is also a universal collection, which meets the taste of different people, with different cultures and sensibilities. And where the coloring is, of course, that of the stones.
For example, there is a choker called Yoshino, reminiscent of sapphires and diamonds with cherry blossoms in Japan. Or a bracelet, Holika, inspired by the famous Holi Indian feast, where everyone is colored, with a 65 carat rubellite in the center, but also tourmaline and crisoberillo pearls, mounted on voluminous circle earrings. Or, again, the Chromaphonia necklace, which is composed of 22 Baroque emeralds from Afghanistan (very rare), and which is inspired by the typical costumes of Hungary. Inspired by Africa is the Kanaga suite, with triangular cut and baguette diamonds, which can be found at the end of a necklace with strands of small spinel pearls. Really a collection for specialists in coloratura, the divas. Margherita Donato

Anello Yoshino in oro bianco, opali, zaffiri rosa, diamanti, morganite di 172 carati

Choker Yoshino con zaffiri e diamanti senza pendente

Choker Yoshino con zaffiri e diamanti più pendente

Collana Chromaphonia con 22 smeraldi afgani, spinello, granato mandarino, onice, diamanti

Collana Kanaga con perle di spinello e diamanti

Collana Matsuri in platino con diamanti, opali, tormalina, onice

Anello in oro bianco con tormalina, onice, diamanti

Anello in oro bianco, diamanti, onice, corallo

Orologio segreto Orienphonie in oro bianco, diamanti, onice, corallo

Orecchini con perle di corallo, oro bianco, diamanti, onice

Round of the world with the Chopard high jewelery

Published on July 12, 2018

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Orecchini con diamanti a pera di 3 e 10,3 carati

The collection Red Carpet 2018, by Chopard, a festival of precious gems and exotic inspirations ♦ ︎

Chopard in 2018 has reached the 21 years of sponsorship of the Cannes Film Festival. It is Chopard’s, among other things, the golden palm given to the winners. On the occasion of the film festival Chopard presents new jewelry ideas. But above all, Chopard presents new collections of high-end jewelery at the same time as the Paris-Haute-Haute-Couture Week 2018-2019 which are inspired by the Cannes Film Festival. It is called, in fact, Red Carpet 2018 the collection consists of 71 jewels created under the artistic direction of Caroline Scheufele. The number 71 is not accidental, because it is also the age just completed of the Festival that is celebrated on the Croisette.
Some of the necklaces, earrings and rings made of emeralds from Colombia, diamonds, rubies, blue apatites, purple garnets, red jasper, sapphires and many other precious elements, deviate from the classic style of high jewelery: they are inspired by the travels around the artistic director’s world. It is also a way of remembering the times when the family members of Caroline Scheufele were traveling with suitcases of valuables from one royal court to another. The jewels seem to be inspired by an exotic, Central American, Asian or African style, with unusual designs and bright colors that look like macramé fabrics. The effect is really impressive: they also deserve a Golden Palm. Lavinia Andorno

Collana in platino con 17 eccezionali smeraldi non trattati per 52 carati, un diamante a pera colore D di 20,5 carati e diamanti taglio brillante per 29,6 carati

Anello con smeraldo taglio ottogonale e diamanti

Collana in oro giallo e titanio con tormaline per 142 carati, rubellite, spessartite, granati, tanzanite, ametista, tsavorite — Collana in oro giallo e titanio con tormaline per 142 carati, rubellite, spessartine, granati, tanzanite, ametista, tsavorite

Collana in oro bianco con smeraldo taglio ottagonale e diamanti taglio a pera per 61 carati

Anello in oro bianco e un rubino taglio ottogonale di 12 carati

Orecchini in oro giallo e titanio con spessartine (mandarino granato)

Orecchini in oro bianco e titanio, jada, opale nero, zaffiri, lapislazzuli

Orecchini in oro bianco e alluminio, rubi taglio briolette, diamanti, rubini per 25 carati

Messika, fairy-tale jewelry

Published on July 10, 2018

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Particolare della collana Collana Bright Falcon

High jewelry by Messika: traditional fairy tales are transformed into incredible pieces. Indeed, fabulous ♦ ︎

Being raised with a menu of bread and diamonds is certainly a diet that only a few can say they have followed. But, probably, it is the perfect diet for a jeweler, judging by the result obtained by Valérie Messika. Diamonds were her childhood playmates and, now, they are her working tools. Better, they are tools for the composition of jewelry that are comparable to works of art.
During the Paris Haute Couture Week, Messika presented other high-end jewelery pieces from the Once Upon a Time collection. “Combining my passion for diamonds with my love for fashion, I rewrote some of the stories that once enchanted me when I was a child,” explained the queen of diamonds. “I reinterpreted the stories of these old tales with an ultramodern vision and avant-garde style inspired by the latest fashion trends”.

Eternal Soul necklace, The Little Mermaid inspired

The Little Mermaid
This is the case, for example, of the Little Mermaid, a large necklace with a large emerald-cut diamond in the center. Also the other diamonds, arranged on about fifty fringes, have the same cut. The fringes move and dance just like the waves among which the Little Mermaid lives.
Another exceptional chapter in the series is the Undine Set. It takes the name of a story from the Romantic period, written in 1811 by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. The story tells the tragic story of an Undine, aquatic female spirit of Nordic folklore. Messika interprets it as a tribute to the world of high fashion, inspired by the most exclusive trends in the world of catwalks. The set consists of a necklace with emerald and brilliant-cut diamonds, a pair of earrings, a bracelet and a ring. The set inspired by the Snow Queen, however, prefers the pear-cut, to pay tribute to the heroine of the fairy tale, who uses his courage to free himself from the hypnotic winter queen.
Another chapter: The Bright Falcon, which refers to an ancient Russian fairy tale. The necklace of this series is nothing short of spectacular. By eye, more than 300 marquise cut diamonds will be used with an overall design that alludes to the wings of a falcon. For this necklace Messika has used various colors and cuts of diamonds (in the middle there is an emerald cut) and a technique specifically studied in the Maison’s laboratory that allows flexibility and ergonomics.
The collection also includes special pieces such as a ring with marquise cut diamonds, or the Radiant ring, with an amazing fancy yellow diamond of over 7 carats. It is appropriate to say that they are a fairy tale jewelry. Giulia Netrese

Persian Drops necklace, indossata da Beyoncé

Anello Radiant Firebird, con un diamante fancy yellow di oltre 7 carati

Collana che fa parte dell'Undine set — Collana con diamanti taglio pera e brillante che fa parte dell’Undine set

Boucheron true flowers

Published on July 9, 2018

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Anello in titanio, oro rosa, zaffiro padparscha, spinello nero, zaffiro viola e arancio, petali naturali

Boucheron flowers from the Nature Triomphante collection: extraordinary high jewelery ♦ ︎

Despite the coexistence between flowers and jewels is difficult, continuing over time, almost like the one between Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Where is the difficulty in this marriage is soon said: first of all to interpret a flower is not simple, if you want to propose something original. Secondly, a jewel that does not limit itself to making just a simple idea of the flower, meets great technical difficulties. If, then, the goal is a jewel of great quality as well as precious, only a few designers succeed.
Claire Choisne, creative director of Boucheron, has succeeded it. And during the week of haute couture she presented the new high-end jewelry collection of the Maison. The jewels of the Nature Triomphante collection are a triumph not only for the refined selection of the materials used, but also for the complicated, difficult choice of construction. For example, in some cases the rock crystal was carved from the inside to accommodate diamonds and gold. The floral rings, moreover, were made with a touch of unusual naturalism, which at first glance could make the jewel exchange for an authentic flower. Also thanks to the processing technique of titanium, which takes on color and a finish that makes them become small masterpieces. More: true flower petals are applied, without pigments or chemicals to titanium surfaces. Thus a flower becomes eternal.
To achieve this level Boucheron has carefully studied the plants: as in the case of the necklace with ivy leaves that has been reproduced, including veins, after a digital scan of the foliage of a real plant. Or Nuage de Fleurs, a necklace of small hydrangea flowers in rose gold, with mother-of-pearl in pale pink, gray and cream, with petals with diamonds similar to drops of dew. In short, a true triumph of high jewelry. Giulia Netrese

Anellodi Boucheron in titanio, diamanti e petali naturali

Collana Nuage de Fleurs in oro rosa, tormalina rosa, madreperla e diamanti

Collana Lierre Givre in titanio, diamanti e cacholong

Collana rivière in stile art déco in oro bianco, tormalina, malachite, onice e diamanti

Collana Cigales de Neiges in oro bianco e calcedonio, diamanti

The empire of Nadia Morgenthaler

Published on May 28, 2018

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Nadia Morgenthaler, anello con spinello, diamanti, perle naturali

The (British) empire still strikes with the Maharaja-Belle Époque style of Nadia Morgenthaler, one of the new high-jewelery brands ♦ ︎
Can a pretty Swiss designer, who works in Geneva, live in a different universe than the clean and a little conventional Swiss society? Yes, it can, and there is no need to be rebels to propose something different. You can if your name is Nadia Morgenthaler and from five years you have inaugurated a new path in the world of high jewelry. We could call it Maharaja-Époque style, that of India part of the British Empire. Because the designer’s jewels have their own independent life that passes between the architectures that are not at all minimal, that went out of fashion between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but also that sort of Indian baroque that traced an era in jewelry. Small pearls that draw a rounded line, spinels, rock crystal, tourmaline, small diamonds. Stones with not excessively saturated nuances, which are often hooked as pendants. The entire construction of the jewels, even the smallest ones, is never simple, yet maintains the balance of the volumes.

Orecchini con tormaline , diamanti, perle

Just look at the type of jewelry of Nadia Morgenthaler to realize that they are unique pieces, which next to the fantasy linked to other eras are made with modern Swiss precision. No have been exception by the jewels shown at GemGenève, where the Maison has placed itself in a special area for young emerging designers. Although Nadia Morgenthaler has emerged for some time, and not just since 2013.

Pendente con cristallo di rocca, perle naturali, diamanti

Nadia Morgenthaler, particolare di una collana con spinelli, perle naturali, diamanti

Dior, the secrets of Versailles

Published on February 2, 2018

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At the court of Versailles with the high jewelery by Dior, to search among its secrets ♦ ︎
Versailles is not just a destination for tourists, but a part of French culture and History, written in capital letters. And it is also culture, art, fantasy. Finally, it is also one of the topical places around which the creative fantasy of Victoire de Castellane is thickened, the refined mind from which the Dior high jewelery collections spring. Just like the collection called Dior à Versailles, pièces sècretes. And so, after the collections inspired by the royal residence of the past few years, here is the new high jewelry dedicated by the building or, better, its most secret corners.
Read also: Dior to the gardens of Versailles
Read also: Dior celebrates Versailles
The new Dior collection still runs through the corridors, rooms and halls of Versailles to create swiveling gemstones, concealed drawers, rings that look like miniature boxes. And then many symbols, more or less obvious, that appear (sometimes by surprise) on the jewels. In short, the third visit to Versailles of Victoire de Castellane is even richer in creative ideas. Among other things, it should be noted a novelty: the appearance of the skull motif, perhaps as a sign of the time that inexorably passes also for the vanitas, it has passed also for the court of the Sun King. Even the choice of stones recalls the era of the baroque, the stuccoes, the wigs, with spinels of an almost iridescent color, a rare lilac tanzanite, powder pink sapphires. To wear while listening to Rameau. Giulia Netrese

Anello Cassetto segreto (Cachette tiroir) in oro, diamanti, opale

Anello apribile in oro gialloe rosa e diamanti con raro spinello blu

Collana in oro bianco e diamanti con motivo a teschio

Dior, collana con pendente in oro bianco e giallo, diamanti e smeraldo

Dior, alta gioielleria, anello apribile in oro rosa, giallo, diamanti e rubellite

Dior, alta gioielleria, orecchini in oro bianco, pietra luna, zaffiro, ametista

A masterpiece among Damiani’s Margherita

Published on January 23, 2018

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In Paris Damiani presents the enriched Margherita collection and a watch-bracelet, a unique piece masterpiece ♦
High fashion, high jewelery: the wedding is consumed every year in France, on the occasion of the Paris Haute Couture. It’s an appointment Damiani, a group which is leader in Italy of jewelry and fine jewelry, decided not to miss. Damiani has therefore organized a preview of the new creations of Fine Jewelry of the Margherita collection in their Boutique in Place Vendome: see the pictures on this page.
The collection was created by revisiting the original sketches of the founder of the Maison and supplier of the Royal House of Savoy, Enrico Grassi Damiani, and is inspired by the elegance of the wife of the king of Italy Umberto I (1844-1900), Queen Margherita. In addition to having bequeathed to the entire world population a food jewel as the most classic of pizzas, the Margherita pizza (baptized in Naples in his honor: is topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella, basil, perhaps its greatest merit), the Regina was also famous for its elegance and for its passion for jewelery: it is no coincidence that her has been given a gift of diamonds and of great value.
The Margherita collection consists of a series of precious flowers in gold, diamonds, citrine quartzes and amethysts. The motif of the daisy consists of a center from which the petals radiate and is repeated on rings, bracelets, pendants and earrings.
Bracelet and secret
The Margherita collection also begins to count the hours with jewel-watches. Damiani, in fact, also presents a precious watch-bracelet made in over 500 hours of work thanks to the excellent skill of the goldsmiths of Valenza. The bracelet is created with 52 daisies (from 6 to 18 millimeters) made of white gold and brilliant cut diamonds of different diameters linked to each other through small rings that provide softness in movement and a perfect fit.
The central bouquet conceals an elegant watch (with Eta Swiss movement) concealed by a mechanism. A small touch triggers the lid that magically rotates sideways revealing the precious hands and the full pavé dial. This unique piece takes around 75 grams of white gold and 15 carats of diamonds.
Among other things, with the collection Margherita Damiani won the prestigious Sina Fashion Style Awards 2017 in Beijing. Sina is the most important and authoritative Chinese portal in the country for trends and information.

Damiani, anello della collezione Margherita in oro bianco e diamanti

Orecchini della collezione Margherita in oro bianco e diamanti

Anello della collezione Margherita in oro giallo e diamanti

Damiani, orologio-bracciale, pezzo unico. pezzo unico. Impiega circa 75 grammi di oro bianco e 15 carati di diamanti

Anello della collezione Margherita in oro rosa e diamanti

David Yurman to four

Published on August 30, 2017

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Anello Twist con una grossa rubellite e diamanti montati su platino

The four High Jewelery collections by David Yurman, with a necklace made up of 7,000 spinels ♦ ︎
If David Yurman is a magnificent name in the jewelery world, it will also be that of Evan Yurman. The son of the founder of the American Maison debuted with the high jewelery in July, during the Haute Couture in Paris. The pieces presented for the fall-winter season 2017-2018 are distributed in four collections: Dubbed Stax, Petals, Pearls and Gems. Different solutions, different ideas and the same precious wealth of elements are the characteristic of collections. Already the name indicates the different paths from the collections. Petals, for example, was inspired by David Yurman’s nocturnal designs, awakened by the croak of frogs in his Putnam home, north of New York. Pearl, on the other hand, is obviously dedicated to the round and dark-eyed daughters of the South Seas and Tahiti. Gems, as it is easy to imagine, privileges the stones. To note a necklace that is the fruit of 186 hours of work, made in 16 threads of 7,000 red beads cut to beads, plus 412 diamonds. Margherita Donato

David Yurman, collana in 16 fili di 7000 spinelli rossi tagliati a perline, più 412 diamanti

David Yurman, orecchini con spinelli rossi tagliati a perline e diamanti

Bracciale della collezione Petals, oro e diamanti

Collana della collezione Petals, oro bianco e diamanti

Anello con oro bianco, diamanti e tanzanite

Orecchini della collezione Petals, oro e diamanti

Vuitton, the Conquête of high jewelery

Published on August 4, 2017

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Bracciale in oro bianco e platino, tzavorite da carati e diamanti da 14,23 carati. Anello in oro bianco, topazio Imperiale da 13.55 e diamanti da 3.80 carati

The Conquête collection of High Jewelery signed by Louis Vuitton ♦ ︎
Who knows how to withstand a conquest? No one if conquest is Louis Vuitton’s Conquête collection. The collection was presented during the Haute Couture Week in Paris. It is High Jewelery, all over 60 pieces, including three exceptional necklaces. These are the most prominent pieces, such as the gray pearls necklace with a 54.3 carat tourmaline, and diamonds, or 16.82 carats mandarin garnet, but also bracelets, earrings and rings are made with the same materials and, of course, with the same care.
To mark the Maison origin, the collection plays with the shape of two Louis Vuitton icons, the stylized flower monogram and the letter V, which are used for the first time in the same collection. In short, elements of jewels are built around the elaboration of these two glyphs, which distinguish the brand. But there is no need to think of jewels that focus on brand exaltion: to be in the foreground, in fact, it is above all the consistency of the collection, played all over the three colors of the tourmaline (green), garnet (orange) and diamonds (white) . Luxury, but classy. Lavinia Andorno

Collana in oro bianco, tsavorite da 7.55 carati, crisoprasio, onice, vernice e diamanti da 6.26 carati

Bracciale in oro bianco, tormalina da 12.16 carati e diamanti da 19.04 carati. Orecchini in oro bianco, due tormaline da 7.78 carati e diamanti da 3.28 carati

Collana in oro bianco e platino, tsavorite da 7.55 carati, un granato demantoide da 1.10 carati, opali da 30.95 carati e diamanti da 24.52 carati

Collana in oro bianco, tormalina, perle e diamanti da 23.14 carati

Collana in oro bianco, granato mandarino da 16.82 e diamanti per 22.31 carati

Collana in oro bianco e platino, topazio Imperiale da 37.07 carati, un granato demantoide da 1.10 carati, opali da 30.95 carati e diamanti da 24.52 carati

Dior to Versailles Gardens

Published on July 8, 2017

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Bracciale.orologio Parterre du Midi, con grande smeraldo quadrato

High Jewelery: Versailles gardens interpreted by Dior. Images ♦ ︎
Assuming not to put yourself in the shoes of Maria Antonietta (finished on the guillotine) it is legitimate to put yourself in the shoes of a queen if you can wear the new pieces of high jewelery signed by Dior. The Versailles Palace was the center of last year’s collection designed by Maison’s artistic director, Victoire de Castellane. Having seen success, the designer remains in the neighborhood with the Dior à Versailles collection, Côté Jardins. In short, the great garden of the palace, itself a masterpiece, is transfigured into rings, necklaces, earrings, and even jewelry-watches.
As you can expect from a garden and as you can expect from Victoire de Castellane, the collection is a triumph of colors, stones, shapes that tend to remember the rococo but without the frills of the French eighteenth-century baroque. But the richness of compositions, which often recall the bouquets of flowers, is astonishing. An example: the Bosquet de la Salle de Bal Rubis bracelet is made of diamonds, rock crystal, emeralds, rubies, pink sapphires, mandarin garnets, blue sapphires, garnets, tsavorites, yellow diamonds, purple and yellow sapphires, spessartites, and lacquer.
The result would been loved by André Le Nôtre, landscape architect who in the 18th century conceived the garden of Versailles, one of the most admired in the world.
Read also: Dior celebrates Versailles

Anello Hameau de la reine, con spinello rosa

Anello Hameau de la Reine, con tormalina Paraiba

Collier Bosquet de la Salle, con smeraldo

Collier Trianon, con grande diamante taglio pera

Dior, spilla Bosquet d'Encelade, con smeraldi e zaffiri — Dior, spilla Bosquet d’Encelade, con smeraldi e zaffiri

Orecchini Bosquet du Théâtre d'Eau, con tormaline Paraiba — Orecchini Bosquet du Théâtre d’Eau, con tormaline Paraiba

Orecchini Plaisir Champêtre con smeraldi e zaffiri

The high jewelry of Anna Hu

Published on April 15, 2016

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The high jewelry is sometimes so high that you can not see: it is reserved to few lucky who can enter the private rooms of the Maison. It is therefore a fortune when, as happened in the Louvre, are shown one hundred pieces of unique and extraordinary jewelry. But the surprise was also another: the exhibits were of a unique young designer Anna Hu. The honor and responsibility to show own work a few meters from that of Leonardo da Vinci and his associates, has not shaken the enterprising jeweler Sino-American, who created, among other things, a bracelet and ring for Gwyneth Paltrow Academy Awards a couple of years ago. But, apart from the color notes, it are even more surprising her jewelry. The Anna Hu Orpheus emerald ring was sold for more than $ 2 million at a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong: a world record for a contemporary Chinese artist jewelry. And to say that Anna Hu was a cellist and has also played with the famous Yo-Yo Ma. But a shoulder injury has hampered his chances of becoming a senior musician (his favorite musics are the Rachmaninoff concerts for piano 1, 2, 3 and the classical Beethoven’s ninth). Hu has so studied jewelry design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and followed a masteralla Columbia University. He has opened its first boutique in New York Plaza Hotel in 2008, followed by its flagship store in Shanghai. So from cello turned to rings and bracelets, and she entered in the elite of the great jewelers. Margherita Donato

Anello rosa, con diamanti, zaffiri, rubino

Collana Cleopatra, con diamanti, tsavoriti, granati, spinelli

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Chanel high jewelry inspired by Russia

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The Modern Beauties by de Grisogono

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Bulgari’s Cinemagia

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Five high jewelery rings signed by de Grisogono: they will be presented at the Cannes Film Festival. In fact the collection is called Technicolor ♦ ︎

But for de Grisogono the word Technicolor brings together five new high jewelery rings. Obviously with very colored stones.

Schreiner, luxury made in Germany

High jewelry in a big way with the German Maison Schreiner. For those who love luxury ♦ ︎

The Maison loves to point out that the jewels of the Schreiner collections are found today in many royal houses in all countries.

Van Cleef & Arpels, high jewelery in red

Red colour celebrates the new high jewelery collection by Van Cleef & Arpels, Treasure of Rubies ♦ ︎

As always, for the Treasure of Rubies collection the Maison used the serti mystérieux, the technique invented by Van Cleef that allows you to juxtapose the stones without seeing a metal frame.

Graff in yellow

Preview Baselworld: the jewel watch by Graff covered with 60 yellow diamonds ♦ ︎

The bracelet that marks the hours presented by Graff has a pavé of 60 yellow diamonds for a total of over 25 carats.

Dior, high-jewelry three time

A new collection of high jewelry by the Maison: lace, gold and stones with Dior Dior Dior ♦ ︎

Cartier’s Coloratura

Coloratura collection by Cartier: 240 incredible pieces of high jewelery ♦ ︎

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The collection Red Carpet 2018, by Chopard, a festival of precious gems and exotic inspirations ♦ ︎

Messika, fairy-tale jewelry

High jewelry by Messika: traditional fairy tales are transformed into incredible pieces. Indeed, fabulous ♦ ︎

Boucheron true flowers

Boucheron flowers from the Nature Triomphante collection: extraordinary high jewelery ♦ ︎

The empire of Nadia Morgenthaler

Dior, the secrets of Versailles

A masterpiece among Damiani’s Margherita

David Yurman to four

Vuitton, the Conquête of high jewelery

Dior to Versailles Gardens

The high jewelry of Anna Hu