Nature's Poetry in Precious Metal: Chaumet's "Jewels by Nature"
Chaumet's latest high jewellery collection, "Jewels by Nature," emerges as a masterful love letter to the natural world, transforming botanical inspiration into fifty-four exquisite pieces that blur the lines between art and adornment. This ambitious collection stands as testament to the maison's 245-year legacy of harmonious dialogue with nature.
Structured across three evocative chapters—Everlasting, Ephemeral, and Reviving—the collection traverses the full spectrum of natural beauty.
Inspired by an archival tiara, this Wild Rose parure spotlights the wild rose’s multitude of golden yellow stamens by incorporating the most remarkable yellow diamonds.
The opening "Everlasting" chapter celebrates perpetual flora through remarkable pieces like the Wild Rose parure, featuring an extraordinary 8.23-carat Fancy Vivid Yellow diamond in a necklace requiring nearly 1,500 workshop hours. The technical virtuosity continues with the Oat and Field Star creation, where articulated yellow gold oat inflorescences dance against white gold field stars adorned with cushion-cut diamonds.
Oat and Field Star - Echoing the maison’s long tradition of goldsmithing, the parure depicts a landscape of oats and field stars undulating in the wind.
Clover and Fern - This parure magnifies two emblematic motifs from the Chaumet stylistic repertoire, combining exceptional diamonds and emeralds.
"Ephemeral" captures fleeting beauty through unexpected interpretations, most notably the Carnation parure draped in signature Chaumet blue—a hue nature never bestowed upon carnations. The transformable necklace showcases a breathtaking 36.44-carat Ceylon sapphire, while the Sword-lily dazzles with seven Mozambique rubies totaling 14.03 carats, seemingly levitating through the fil couteau technique.
Demanding nearly 1,500 hours of work, this sumptuous transformable necklace suggests a bucolic meadow, each link set with two sapphires. the result is a precious mesh, a signature Chaumet stylistic code.
The "Reviving" chapter pays homage to Empress Joséphine's beloved species—magnolia, iris, dahlia, and water lily. The Water Lily parure particularly captivates, juxtaposing spinels and topaz in sculptural openwork designs that echo Monet's impressionist masterpieces.
Contemplating the magnolia in all its profusion, this diamond parure offers a naturalistic take on the plant, portrayed as it blossoms.
Appearing as though it may have escaped from a work by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Empress Joséphine’s botanical painter, this parure captures the delicacy of a wild iris animated by the breeze, and accented with poetic dragonflies.
Infused with volume and movement, the parure conveys the majesty of the dahlia in gold and diamonds.
Throughout, the bee emerges as both muse and metaphor, celebrated in seven distinct brooches that honor this essential pollinator's role in nature's continuation. Each piece demonstrates Chaumet's commitment to preserving traditional savoir-faire while embracing contemporary innovation, creating jewels that don't merely depict nature but embody its very essence—transformative, eternal, and utterly captivating.