Piaget's Pop Years in the Mirror, Shapes from Extraleganza.
A breath from the sixties permeates the new showcases Piaget. With Shapes of Extraleganza, The Maison continues a formal exploration begun in 2024, questioning the links between jewelry, art, and visual culture. This collection is a vivid reflection on lines, color, light, and volume, in an assumed dialogue with the applied and decorative arts of past decades.
The forms unfold, overlap, and intertwine. Circles, waves, zigzags, points, and spirals meet like on an abstract canvas. Each ornament plays with contrasts and balances, like a jeweler’s earring echoing the plastic explorations of an Arman or Vasarely. Piaget It evokes the memory of a time when artistic creation sought to break away from established frameworks, and the jewel fits into these without hierarchy, as a partner in the momentum.
The thread is the gaze of Piaget in the 1960s-70s: a graphic legacy, assumed in its daring, often unpredictable forms. Through 51 pieces, the collection revisits specific stylistic references in pop art, Op Art and psychedelic fashion while infusing them with a contemporary coherence. The precious stones, whether rare, rough or finely cut, become vehicles for narrative. Rhodochrosite, sugilite, verdite, opales black… these are all materials that form a palette conceived as a chromatic manifesto.
Shapes of Extraleganza It also borrows from the codes of the watch-jewellery, a historic signature of the Maison. Some pieces conceal time under a secret ring, others make it vibrate in supple bracelets with discreet mechanics. As for Endless Motion, a watch-sculpture designed with the artist Alex Palenski, it operates as a poetic synthesis of this collection: a mobile work, traversed by games of shadow and light, suspended between movement and contemplation.
This second chapter of the trilogy Extraleganza It thus asserts itself as a research into the transformation of form into aesthetic experience. A jewelery piece where each stone finds its place within a resolutely free artistic language.
