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Cirque de Soleil and Boucheron, reprise

Consider this a follow-up to the previous post on the current Boucheron necklace collection celebrating twenty years of Cirque de SoleiI. I was able to track down some more promotional pictures of the necklaces, this time with names even!

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(All pictures from Paris Joaillerie, and can be clicked for larger versions)
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Cirque de Soleil and Boucheron

Guy Laliberté, majority owner of Cirque de Soleil, teamed up with Boucheron, of whom he is a frequent customer to put together a collection of 20 pieces inspired by various Cirque productions.  Each of the pieces in the collection, dubbed Inspiria, will be duplicated with one complete set to be sold, proceeds to benefit One Drop, a charity founded by M. Laliberté to provide clean drinking water.  The other set will remain in the posession of the Cirque foundation, but available to the viewing public at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until August 29, 2010.

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Philippe Tournaire

Another of the many jewelers with boutiques in the Place Vendome, Philippe Tournaire hides his shop in a small covered walkway near the JLC and Omega boutiques.  He tends towards the bezel set stone, with a wide face, and architectural pieces, specifically rings.  First from the bezel-set genre, a yellow gold ring set with diamonds and either rubies or tourmaline
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Sadly the depth-of-focus and the macro angle worked against a clear shot of that piece from his showcase.  The next piece, a platinum ring from the Architecture collection called New York, had a similar problem.
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I was able to find a picture of that same piece, in 18k yellow gold, on his site. tournaire new york.jpg

Hunting for that picture led me to one of his more recent pieces, Paris on a ring.  First from above:
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One can see Notre Dame, Place de la Concorde, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and finally, at the far right, the Grande Arche de la Defence.  In the side view below...
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One can see that the shank takes the form of the Eiffel tower.  This style of multi-finger ring is often tried, but seldom with such artistry and success...

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Gianmaria Buccelatti, Part 1

The first store on your left as you walk into the Place Vendome is that of Gianmaria Buccelatti, one of the top names in contemporary Italian jewelry.  They veer more towards classical styling, frequently using unusually shaped pearls as the central element, a technique popular in the late Renaissance. 
Several pieces in that style follow:
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Third in the formed pearls is this piece, using irregular ovoid pearls as grapes
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All these pictures, and more, are mine.
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Dior Flower Rings

From their windows in Place Vendome, Christian Dior Joaillerie shows rings decorated with flowers.  I must apologize for the photos, there were some technical problems, including a new camera I wasn't quite familiar with yet.


Rosebud in white gold and diamonds
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Open flower in black and white diamonds, some of the white ones are quite impressive stones
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A smaller ring from the Doirette collection, constructed of several smaller flowers
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More Cartier Kitties

The theme extends past the ad campaign to
Art Deco inspired earrings


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A sapphire-based necklace
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and it's matching bracelet
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A broach centered on a large star Sapphire
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and a ring based on a large(approx. 20ct) faceted purple Sapphire
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All images from Cartier via.
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Pasquale Bruni

I've begun the sorting of pictures from a recent trip to Paris and am starting on the jewelry ones.  Here are some pieces from the window of Pasquale Bruni, on the way into Place Vendome proper.  Her pieces seem to focus less on small details that overall shape, frequently using pave set stones to create a shimmering surface.  There is also the use of almost tessalated forms, though slightly less regular than that would imply, but significant repetition of small forms.

First is a Star and a Moon pendent, both in 18kt gold.  The Moon is pave in diamond with a single set sapphire, the stars are pave in a mix of diamonds and rubies
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Above the Moon was a pendent named 'snowflake' also in diamonds and 18kt gold


Finally we have a pair of overlapping rings from the Prato Fiorito (flowery meadow) collection.  These are decorated with a profusion of small gold elements, each set with a small diamond set upon a lattice of gold.  The edge has a series of the same flowers dangling, free to wiggle with the wearers movement.  A pendent from the same collection can be seen at the bottom of the frame, alas out of focus.
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All images are mine, 11-2009
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A Most Unusual Setting

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One of the most unusual settings I've seen recently, with the pavilion of the outer stones providing a backdrop for the main, inner stone.  The piece, named Coupelle Piége (cup trap, or the like), is from the Architecte collection by Lorenz Baümer (featured before) and consists of a tourmaline (central stone), fire opals and Citrines (the stones in the side, and small diamonds set in 18kt rose gold.  There is red Spinel somewhere in the piece, according to his website, but I'm not sure where.
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NB: His website uses some heavy flash and is not safe for those who sudder from vertigo

Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe

Apparently discussing the finer points of throwing a change-up.
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Daphna Simon and Animals

Jeweler Daphna Simon, known for her animal designs, has created a new line to support Defenders of Wildlife, a conservation charity.  These new pieces all incorporate a bear paw print motif, which I find less appealing than her previous animals, sampled below
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