Movement and form have always been rich sources of inspiration. On the one hand, bestiary, the expressiveness of animals, their symbolism, but also flowers and botany in perpetual change, the beauty of the elements, have for centuries been the hallmark of jewelers’ poetry. On the other hand, shapes, movement and abstraction in art and architecture have always inspired the jeweler’s imagination.
Fauna and flora are eternal sources of inspiration in jewelry. The elements of nature are precisely defined by the multiple nuances of the stones. In the Nature Sauvage collection, Cartier brings to light a bestiary of legendary animals, many of which are already part of its history. They are concealed in interlacing stones and diamonds, in a landscape of lakes, waterfalls and forests. Agile and supple, the Maison’s iconic panther seems to have emerged from an icy lake to descend an ice floe (the necklace took almost 3,000 hours to make). As for the dreamy panther, it falls asleep on a ball of faceted diamonds weighing over 19 carats, set on a necklace of melon-cut emeralds. There’s play in the air, a joyful hide-and-seek where creatures appear where you least expect them. Cartier blurs the lines: animals break free from their natural environment to enter new worlds.
De Beers, in the front line for the most beautiful diamonds on earth, has chosen not to dazzle with breathtaking caratages, but to continue along the path of the Forces of Nature collection, the first part of which was presented in January. The London-based jeweler expresses the beauty inspired by the land of southern Africa and the wildlife that inhabits it. The 8 animal rings from opus I return here with their matching sets. The hypnotic gaze of the leopard is revealed with olive-green marquise diamonds set in black rhodium, as if highlighted with kohl. The horns of the great kudu are twists of diamonds surrounding a water-clear grey-green diamond. The lion waves its mane of diamonds and gold beads freely. Elsewhere, a bright orange diamond weighing over 2 carats, set on a ring of rough and cut diamonds, marries the simplicity of the rough stone with the precious rarity of a colored diamond.
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