DREAM A little

With colours that pop and ideas that shine, the latest spring/summer high jewellery creations are designed to be celebrated.

- CELINE YAP

Cartier Beautés du Monde: The Final Chapter

There is beauty all around us, from the greatest mountains and rivers to the humblest blades of grass. The question is, can you see it? Because Cartier certainly can—and has. In Beautés du Monde, the maison pulled back its creative lens to look at our amazing blue planet in its entirety, and letting its aesthetic sensibilities guide the way. For the final chapter of this collection, Cartier rests its gaze upon precious sights of the natural and civilised world. The perfect arrangement of a bird’s feathers, the undulating fins of a fighting fish, the abstraction of a traditional cultural motif. Nothing is ever foreign, and nothing is ever beyond the savoir-faire of this great jewellery maison.

Yet looking at the collection’s four key pieces, all staggeringly constructed necklaces studded with amazing gemstones both large and small, you only get a whiff of what it was that inspired the creation. “Always striving to enchant the senses, we transcribe the richness of cultures, landscapes, fauna and flora with a contemporary outlook,” says Jacqueline Karachi, Cartier’s high jewellery creative director. In the Ocelle necklace, you don’t actually see a peacock, only the blue-green colour palette brought to life by cabochon opals and Zambian emeralds. In the Obi necklace, Cartier subtly pays tribute to Japanese culture through an exquisite play on shapes, angles and volumes.

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