A jewel always tells more than it shows. Behind a stone, a shape or a signature, an era, a culture, a skill, and sometimes the gesture of a creator whose mark transcends time are revealed.
The section Jewellery d’Esprit Joaillerie explores the creation of jewelry in all its forms: Haute Joaillerie, vintage and signature jewelry, contemporary creations, precious stones and colored stones. It is equally interested in the houses and creators as well as the techniques, inspirations and stories that give meaning to the pieces.
From Place Vendôme with the workshops, From archives to today’s creations, Esprit Joaillerie takes a look at jewelry through a lens infused with gemology, art history, and field experience. Watching a jewel is also about learning to read what the stone, the drawing and the hand are telling us.
Next November, Geneva will host one of those rare moments when the high jewelry market intersects with cultural history. Christie’s will offer for sale The Mellon Blue, a 9.51-carat Fancy Vivid Blue diamond of said purity, Internally Flawless.
With its Limited Edition N 7, Repossi has created a piece that questions the tradition of the pearl as much as it transforms it. Named Sphere Earring, this creation is part of a conceptual approach: the art of emptiness, floating, and balance.
The new capsule collection, dedicated to the icon Quatre, is part of this lineage, where the material becomes both a subject of reflection and an aesthetic vehicle. This time, black sand is the unexpected guest in a dialogue with yellow gold.
At Chaumet, the wheat ear is more than just a motif; it embodies a continuous thread that links imperial heritage with contemporary creations. Joséphine de Beauharnais and Marie-Louise d'Autriche had already chosen this sign of fertility and prosperity to adorn their jewelry.
At Boucheron, the arrow is not an anecdotal ornament; it is part of the house’s DNA. Introduced as early as the 1860s, it has served as a testing ground for aesthetic experimentation, ranging from Orientalist refinement to the codes of 1920s Modernism.
The Japanese house Tasaki unveils its latest collection whose common thread lies in the subtle combination of the major jewels of jewelry. Each of these stones—ruby, emerald, sapphire, diamond, and pearl—is treated as a unique language.
In the midst of a dreamy garden, Van Cleef & Arpels brings to life two floral jewelry creations, between solar lace and tropical exuberance. With Flowerlace and Fleurs d’Hawaï, Van Cleef & Arpels once again demonstrates its ability to reinterpret motifs that are foundational to its stylistic vocabulary.
Thirty creations, combining unique pieces and numbered editions. Some reinterpret Nikos Koulis’ signature designs, others explore new territories. One finds a jewelery of diamonds cut in moval.
A unique house due to its direct connection with the source of its diamonds, De Beers inscribes this second chapter under the sign of the emblematic trees of its producing countries. Each piece echoes a landscape, a texture or a light, translated into rough and polished diamonds in service of a contemporary reading of nature.
Graff has unveiled 1963, a high-jewellery collection inspired by the brand’s founding decade. This new collection pays tribute to the Swinging Sixties, a time of creative freedom and cultural upheaval, while reaffirming the central role of the diamond in the Maison’s history.
Through the windows of 12 Vendôme, a landscape awakens. At Chaumet, jewels become flowers, leaves and wings, as if nature had found refuge in gold and precious stones. The new collection of haute joaillerie, Jewels by Nature, tells this intimate encounter between the living world and the art of the workshop.
There is a breath, a pulsation in Repossi’s Blast collection. A raw momentum that emerges from an infinite thread, worked as an instinctive, almost calligraphic stroke. One imagines the hand tracing, the gesture enveloping the body without interruption.
The Boucheron house continues its exploration of nature with its new high jewelry collection Carte Blanche 2025, titled Impermanence.
By revisiting her emblematic animal collection through this deliberately unrealistic chromatic filter, the creator questions our perception of the animal world. What remains of the fauna once filtered through the jewel? A colorful, moving abstraction, a hybrid.
At Bvlgari, the precious stone is never simply a material to be adorned with: it is a voice, a presence, a breath. With Polychroma, it creates a sensory language where every nuance becomes a visual punctuation, every sparkle a beat. At the heart of this colorful composition: the Tourmaline.
To mark its twentieth anniversary, Maison Messika presents Terres d’Instinct, a new collection of Haute Joaillerie deeply rooted in the landscapes and light of southern Africa.
For Esprit Joaillerie, the jewel holds a central place in the eye. From haute joaillerie to contemporary creations, from historical pieces to the most current collections, each jewel carries a story of material, creation, and transmission.
However, platinum, silver, diamonds, colored stones: behind each piece lies a choice. The choice of a gem, chosen for its beauty, rarity, or character. The choice of a design, a gesture, and a technique that give it its definitive form: crimping, sizing, and composition.
From the great houses of Place Vendôme to creators who are redefining the codes of contemporary jewelry, this section explores the signatures, styles, and stones that have shaped the history of jewelry. A selection where gemology meets creation, and where each piece of jewelry becomes the starting point of a narrative.
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