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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!

Believe	Kooza	Love
Nouba	Ovo	Saltimbanco

(All pictures from Paris Joaillerie, and can be clicked for larger versions)
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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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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


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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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:


Third in the formed pearls is this piece, using irregular ovoid pearls as grapes

All these pictures, and more, are mine.
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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

Open flower in black and white diamonds, some of the white ones are quite impressive stones

A smaller ring from the Doirette collection, constructed of several smaller flowers

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

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


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.

All images are mine, 11-2009

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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Apparently discussing the finer points of throwing a change-up.

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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More of Van Cleef and Arpels' California Rêverie collection (previewed before).

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There may be two constants in advertising, sex and cute.  Cartier seems to have chosen the later, in spades,  for their current website campaign for the Les Must collection.  They've centered it around a panther cub, in honor of one of their product lines. 

In October Cartier released a new collection(press release) in their top-tier Haute Joaillerie line, Secrets et Merveilles (Secrets and Wonders) at an invitation-only affair in Istanbul.  In their words the collection contains 70 pieces "dedicated to femininity".   The collection centers on the four queens, Peacock Queen, the Diamond Queen, the Pearl Queen and the Snake Queen.  Rather than try and describe the pieces, here are the press photos I've been able to collect.  All are copyright Cartier, 2009, but are listed by the source website.



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I believe this is a bracelet, based on this tiny picture.
And for good measure, one of a model wearing one of the pieces All of these are from Paris Joaillerie, but are also available on the annoying www.theluxejunkie.com
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Or where designs really come from.

Fashematics!

A well reasoned article on the topic from Wired, of all places.  Brings some of the discussion to the present day, where once the Themiserol was removed the target for the anti-vaccination crowd had to become much vaguer
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Kinetic Type Foundry (Really) produced this fantastic little bit of animated type for AICP's recent conference in Minnesota, featuring all the sponsors.

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• From the NYTimes' fashion blog, The Moment, a preview of Van Cleef and Arpels' forthcoming collection California Rêverie, celebrating 70 years of business in the USA.  The following piece is one small part of the Ananas Collier (Pineapple necklace)
  

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• On a more traditional note, VC and A has also announced a collection celebrating the great pre-Versailles French Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte as part of their French segment of their "Jardins" line.  Including such pieces as a necklace inspired by the fountains

"The Vicomte necklace is made of 370 carats of sapphires shaped in three rows of sapphire balls and pear-shaped sapphire drops that suggest
water flowing from a fountain. Each fountain is composed of diamonds
and a center sapphire that weigh 3.53 carats and 4.87 carats,
respectively."

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National Jeweler awarded Shaill Jhaveri their "Best of..." award for gold this summer.   The actual award winning piece was a large cuff bracelet from their "Couture" collection, done in 18k gold, a slightly warmer hue than common 18kt yellow gold, diamonds and champleve enamel.  As is his custom, part of the design is a word, Ankurit -- Sanskrit for "a spiritual awakening". 

To my taste, I find another piece in the same collection, a more traditionally shaped eastern bangle, more interesting

All photos from his website 

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(Or why professional photographers are professional photographers)
On a recent trip to NYC, I took some pictures of pieces of jewelry in Chanel's window, including a bracelet and pair of earrings, flowers in black and white diamonds.