Temporarily taking over the elegant glass-domed courtyard of the Hôtel d’Évreux on place Vendôme in Paris, Van Cleef & Arpels transported visitors to a garden in Verona, the romantic Italian city at the heart of Shakespeare’s tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet, which was the inspiration for its latest high jewelry collection.
Set within a colorful hand-painted scenography by Italian illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti amidst bougainvillea and olive trees, the main actors of this presentation were the 100 or so dazzling pieces that surprised with their abstraction and hypnotically large stones.
Van Cleef & Arpels has long excelled at translating the characters from fairy tales into dazzling pieces. Recent examples include the 2014 Peau d’Âne high jewelry collection inspired by Charles Perrault’s unusual fairy tale Donkey Skin and the 2018 Quatre Contes de Grimm collection inspired by four fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm. Indeed, the jeweler already interpreted Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2003, offering delicate fairy clips and butterflies.
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