At Fashion Week Haute Couture, Boucheron presented the first models in its Biennale 2014 collection. For this collection, the illustrious house takes us to the four corners of the world to reinterpret key pieces from its history.
– COLLECTION FLEUR DES INDES –
Extraordinary maharajahs, prodigious emeralds, unheard-of splendors…
How to evoke India without entering a world of legends and superlatives. How can we invoke its flowers without conjuring up water lilies floating in the wind? Mythical flowers, symbols of purity and blossoming so often painted and celebrated, they are transformed here into magnificent finery.
Fleurs des Indes draws on the special ties the Boucheron family has forged over the years with what was then known as the British Empire.
– Fleur des Indes –
At the center of the “Fleur des Indes” necklace sparkles an illustrious, untouched Mughal emerald of 188.79 carats, whose power is magnetic. Of Colombian origin and dating from the late 17th century, it connects a stone-set pompom on one side and a double choker on the other. This necklace is the quintessence of the Boucheron spirit. Both a talisman stone and a sign of recognition with an obvious aura, wearing it is more than an extraordinary journey, it’s a blessing.
– Nymphéa –
Precious metal petals with mother-of-pearl veins, open to let the light through. Sapphire cabochon pistil surrounded by pollen strands. Diamond punctuation like dewdrops. Faithful to the House’s figurative tradition, the whole is strikingly realistic and beautiful.
– Indian Palace –
The inspiration for these Indian Palace rings came from the water features scattered throughout the palaces of yesteryear. Eight distinct stones in hues reminiscent of these colorful pools. Black or white opal amethyst, tanzanite, chalcedony, tourmaline… An invitation to plunge your gaze into these reflections of turquoise, violet, crimson blue or mauve… Variations in color like the changing surface of water, depending on the mood of the light.
– PINCEAU DE CHINE COLLECTION –
Calligraphy is the ancestral Chinese art par excellence. The art of writing well. Say it all in one stroke. Vary your movements. Find the pure gesture. Transforming slowness into grace and vivacity into strength. Put a maximum of meaning into a minimum of signs. The brush is an extension of the calligrapher’s hand, and its role is essential. Indeed, many legends abound with stories of magical brushes with powerful attributes. It is to this magic and purity that this Pinceau de Chine chapter pays homage.
– Calligraphique –
Purity of rock crystal and white diamonds, perfect geometric rigor of its design, the “Calligraphique” necklace immediately imposes the modernity of its graphics. Whether choker or pendant, the pear-cut design is reminiscent of the point
– Lina –
A reinterpretation of the diamond river in a twisted chain, so soft and flexible that it can be worn as a bracelet. A creeper of such finesse that it seems unreal. Once again, it’s the meticulousness of the gesture, the love of detail and the craftsman’s extreme savoir-faire that are at the forefront here.
– TREASURE OF PERSIA COLLECTION –
In 1930, Louis Boucheron set off for Teheran. The Iranian authorities had chosen him, from among all the jewelers in Place Vendôme, to appraise the Persian treasure. Although this was only supposed to last a few weeks, he ended up staying for a year, given the profusion of stones and the sheer size of the treasure. He returned with a blue heart. The thousands of blue earthenware tiles that adorn the roof of the Great Mosque of Isfahan. The blue so pure that these incredible sapphires are mistaken for the sky. An unreal blue that became an integral part of the Boucheron brand.
– Trésor de Perse –
The “Trésor de Perse” set is a feat of Haute Joaillerie. Two perfectly matched cabochon sapphires combine in blue for a celebration of the exceptional. Witnessing their union, two diamond strings run through the rock crystal to superimpose them. They cross the crystal cones in a descent of white halos. A play of mirrors. Multitude of reflections. The infinite depth of the two cabochon sapphires is revealed. The fabulous set is completed by the “Trésor de Perse” ring and its extraordinary historical sapphire cabochon, which once belonged to the imperial family of Iran.
– Ispahan –
The bold earthenware in multiple shades of blue adorning the Great Mosque of Ispahan. The audacity of the jeweler who breaks the codes and cuts
rock crystal like a diamond. A play on volumes, shapes and materials, as this audacity also extends to hematite, a stone rarely worked in Haute Joaillerie. Subtle shades of blue play with light and transparency. To dream differently, isn’t that the beginning of the journey? e of the brush or the trace left on the leaf. Half frosted crystal, half diamond, it almost seems as if the material comes to life and transforms itself before our eyes. Alchemy has never been better.
– SPLENDEURS DE RUSSIE COLLECTION –
When Boucheron moved to Moscow in 1897, its history and that of Imperial Russia had long been intimately linked. A regular customer of the Parisian House, the Romanov family commissioned numerous pieces over the years that have become legendary. Comprising tiaras, necklaces and jeweled watches, this chapter pays tribute to this rich past and to the eternal Russia of infinite space, immaculate steppes and ice so white it seems transparent.
– Splendor of Russia –
A necklace worn as a tiara. All the splendor is here. A graceful arc of a necklace, a monochrome rainbow
of brilliance and sparkle, baguette diamonds and round diamonds that flare into water droplets before the cold freezes them.
The tiara necklace, an iconic Boucheron piece, tells the endless story of life’s cycles and reminds us that all women are princesses.
– Eternity –
The Eternity necklace is an ode to purity. Invented by Frédéric Boucheron in 1883, the Point d’Interrogation necklace celebrates purity. The purity of the curved, claspless line. The purity of the material, both supple and rigid. Purity of form, with the woman at its center. Russia is not only eternal, it’s also mysterious.
– Jewelry Watches –
Plume de lumière, Reflet pompon, Cristal de lune, the names of our jewelry watches sound and run like poems whose verses are made of white gold, diamonds of all shapes and sizes, and stardust. The fruit of the union of jewelry and watchmaking, these timepieces are true artistic gestures and feats of craftsmanship.
– RIVES OF JAPAN COLLECTION –
Prints, a bestiary, the sea and its shades of reflections, exotic beauties that are necessarily delicate, water, a garden in bloom, moments to capture. So many images spring to mind at the mention of the Shores of Japan… And it’s all poetry. All is emotion. As evidenced by the first Japanese-inspired pieces found in archives dating back to 1910, the art of transcribing landscapes onto jewelry is part of the Boucheron tradition. This chapter pays tribute to both this art and the beauty that inspired it.
– Ricochet –
Like a flat pebble bouncing on the water, leaving traces of its passage, the Ricochet necklace evokes successive, diminishing, fleeting circles. But because sapphires and diamonds have replaced the wave, the ephemeral is eternal and the effect masterly.
– Rivage –
The precision of Japanese masterpieces has never ceased to inspire the Maison’s creations, as evidenced by the Vague tiara, designed in 1910 on the model of Hokusai’s famous wave. The Rivage necklace is also a wave. A wave of sapphires set with a foam of diamonds. It wraps around the neck of the woman who wears it. Depth, movement, backwash… The necklace seems alive with a power matched only by its harmony. This miracle is made possible by the “chahuté” technique so dear to the Maison Boucheron: a setting of 533 round stones of different sizes and colors that draw the wave and give the sensation of happy randomness. This
necklace also has a special emotional dimension, as it is the last piece of Haute Joaillerie to be created by Boucheron’s longest-serving master jeweler, after more than thirty-four years with the company.
– Joy –
Joy is an ode to simplicity and proof that dreams sometimes materialize into wonderful reality. With Joy, it takes the form of an incredible 21-carat sapphire cabochon adorning a ring that is there only to serve it.
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