{"id":89317,"date":"2022-08-26T11:15:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T09:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test2023.luxus-plus.com\/?p=89317"},"modified":"2025-03-28T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:24:21","slug":"a-short-history-of-luxury-the-alhambra-collection-or-luck-in-a-jewel-signed-van-cleef-arpels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/a-short-history-of-luxury-the-alhambra-collection-or-luck-in-a-jewel-signed-van-cleef-arpels\/","title":{"rendered":"[A Brief History of Luxury] The Alhambra collection or luck in a jewel, signed Van Cleef &#038; Arpels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>A value dear to the legendary jewelry house, luck has often guided Van Cleef &amp; Arpels&#8217; steps and inspired some of its most emblematic creations, including the Alhambra collection, inspired by the four-leaf clover.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As early as the 1920s, the four-leaf clover motifs appear in the company&#8217;s archives, along with wooden talismans, charms and benevolent fairies. A collector at heart, <strong>Jacques Arpels<\/strong>, nephew of the founding couple, used to pick four-leaf clovers in the garden of his home to give to his collaborators as good luck charms, which gave birth to the<strong> Alhambra collection<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11036\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11037\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/van-cleef-arpels-alhambra-history-inline1-720-845@3x.jpg.transform.vca-w1024-1x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1202\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sign produced from a Trefoil pendant, 1948 \u00a9 Archives Van Cleef &amp; Arpels<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/a-short-history-of-luxury-the-alhambra-collection-or-luck-in-a-jewel-signed-van-cleef-arpels\/?lang=en\">here<\/a> to read the full article on Luxus Plus Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured photo : \u00a9\u00a0Van Cleef &amp; Arpels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A value dear to the legendary jewelry house, luck has often guided Van Cleef &amp; Arpels&#8217; steps and inspired some of its most emblematic creations, including the Alhambra collection, inspired by the four-leaf clover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":89319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"A value dear to the legendary jewelry house, luck has often guided Van Cleef & Arpels' steps and inspired some of its most emblematic creations.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"four-leaf clovers,clover,Van Cleef & arpels,jewels,jewel,jewelry,gold,precious,luxe,lucky,trefoil,alhambra,collection,grace of monaco","footnotes":""},"categories":[22488],"tags":[22980,24005,24559,24602],"class_list":["post-89317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-en","tag-a-brief-luxury-history","tag-horlogerie-joaillerie-en","tag-lifestyle-by-luxus-en","tag-van-cleef-arpels-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}