With new masterpieces, Vhernier extends the boundaries of its precious zoo ♦ ︎
After the caterpillar, the chameleon, the crab, the turtles, there are new precious animals in the Vhernier’s Animalier line. As with the other brooches, a jewel of great jewelery, in addition to a strong design, offer a meticulous and excellent craftsmanship. Microsculptural masterpieces, in according to Vhernier, which offers them in a limited edition. New entrances to the mini zoo of the Maison of Valenza are a lizard, a frog and a penguin. The refined technique used to make jewels plays on the overlapping of stones, dug by a single block or stratified in the same jewel. The transparency of matter creates new color effects. For example, with the arlecchino reflexes of the Australian opal, or shade into the opal-carnelian carnelian orange from the mother-of-pearl, the blended of the green of imperial jade. Rock crystal increases reflections and brilliance.
Even an inexperienced eye can realize that to get this quality needle, artisan-artists and carefully selected materials should be used: a combination that does not often occur in a sector such as goldsmith’s. Marine turtles, for example, have the hand-carved shell that amplifies the volume by recalling its natural appearance. And a tiny jade flake, thanks to the special effect created by the rock crystal, gives the idea of a collar that surrounds the neck of the Lizard brooch. Leaf price: lizard from 14,450 euro, frog from 10,450 euro, penguin from 21,900 euro.
