Jewelry: the language of love

The jewel occupies a central role in the love stories. Here are sumptuous, more modest, very touching or emblematic of the history of jewelry.

The engagement ring is the best known, most traditional, the one that makes the audience love. It can take the form of You and Me, which consists of two intersecting stone. Jewelers like Chanel, Repossi, Boucheron or call the Christian Dior fashion through revisited models. But the solitary remains the bestseller. Consisting of a central single stone, usually a diamond, sometimes surrounded by smaller, its purchase is often governed by the principle of "always bigger, always more expensive." All tips are good to magnify the stone. There are just one hundred thirty years, the US jeweler Tiffany & Co., which has emerged as the jeweler of love, invented a mythical mount: claws elevate the diamond above the ring in order to amplify the light reflected by the size of the stone and increase its shine. In the US, there is no fear of excess: a tradition that a man provides a value equal to at least three times his monthly salary! But it can go beyond... The lone Kim Kardashian shows 15 carat designer Lorraine Schwartz, one of Beyoncé, 18 carats. The husband of Mariah Carey, an Australian billionaire, reportedly spent most of the $ 7 million for a 35-carat diamond. What dazzled in a... more

Richard Burton has also spent fortunes jewelry for Elizabeth Taylor. In 1962, at Bvlgari, their favorite jeweler, he acquires a set whose sole collar includes sixteen Colombian emeralds for over 60 carats. He offers an iguana pin she wears Tiffany & Co. at the premiere of The Night of the Iguana. It matches these gifts as romantic gestures that flamboyant and fights auction against kings and jewelers such as Harry Winston and Cartier. One day it delights him a pear diamond of 69 carats few hours later, Richard Burton bought it. It creates unprecedented opportunities: just to Elizabeth Taylor won a game of table tennis to be offered a trio of diamond rings. The Duke of Windsor was also covered with jewels Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee for whom he abdicated. Brooches, pendants, necklaces... He even imagine them for hours in the studio jewelers, Jeanne Toussaint and Renée Puissant, head of creation at Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels. The point of being dubbed the "prince charming street of Peace".

FROM 1956, the young Princess Grace of Monaco has not left his Cartier solitaire 10.48 carats - she even demanded to wear in her last film High Society, where she is seen stretching in bed, trying to rub it with a corner of the sheet to make it shine more. That time has passed for some who consider such too ostentatious jewelry. Alamuddin Clooney believes that one offered him the American actor, 7 carats estimated at EUR 640 000, is incompatible with its activity as a lawyer specializing in human rights. She keeps only for very private occasions and it seems that she is replaced by a simple alliance paved diamonds. Indeed, it is possible to show his love other than by the number of carats and crazy gestures. symbolic and allegorical representations are more discreet. Just know decipher... The repertoire is endless, almost, as shown at exhibitions, Chaumet, which is the territory of favorite expression. In "A Sentimental Education" exhibition held at 12, Place Vendôme in Paris until September 24, 2016, Chaumet highlights the intensity of some parts, a priori much smaller than 30 solitaire carats. Among these are a Pierrot brooch made from a moonstone, meant to strengthen the feelings, or one of the acrostic bracelets offered by Napoleon. Composed of an alignment of stones whose initials make up a name or message, love is expressed then by a succession of amethyst, morganite, opal, ruby??and urite. The Emperor, big jewelry lover (iconic French luxury he was trying to promote), provides the women in his life, Josephine, Marie-Louise, his mother, his sister... The language of love also involves figurative elements. Frédéric Boucheron founded his first snake-shaped jewelry for his wife: it is a collar to protect it during his frequent travels. The forget-me means "Forget me not" or evoking ivy attachment. As for the node, widely used in current collections, it evokes one worn by sailors to remember their love remained on the land and who on their return, they were again one. Among the most popular symbols also included the lock, which can be found at Louis Vuitton, or interlaced hands, to the delight of creating accessible as jewelry Adeline Affre.

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Forbidden love, love hidden... In light years of the engagement ring, recognizable at first glance, some pendants, rings and bracelets love is worshiped in secret. Impossible to guess that figures, initials are placed out of sight, hidden in or under a hinged kitten. The message on the glass pin Lalique has long remained a mystery: what was the meaning of the male head carved at the spot and the other, female, carved with the back lip joining the surface? It took years to Decorative Arts Museum to discover it was actually Lalique and his French mistress who bore him a child. The puzzle is also a discreet way to declare your love. Those of the artist Lise Vautrin, the most beautiful, are an endless source of inspiration: one of them, I love you in silence, is well represented by a cup and ball, a T, a magnet and six spears. As for the charms, they are less naive they seem: the combinations of patterns, numbers and letters are all memories, personal winks and intimate connections. The Italian brand Dodo, a specialist on the subject, proposes hundreds for declaring everything one has on the heart.The most touching love jewelry is not the most spectacular or whose materials have a crazy value. On the contrary. Carved from a piece of shrapnel hit its horse in the battle of Waterloo, the ring-shaped beetle offered by Napoleon to Marie Walewska is infinitely touching, like those hairy 1914-1918, fashioned in the trenches from bullet casings to their fiancées. Some are great fun: the nineteenth century, Arles wore ringlets worthless, glass paste, and when they broke, they tore them a "ouch", earning him his name.

Far from these charming and romantic performances, avant-garde seek a neo-jewel of engagement. King's College and English designers of the Royal College of Art in London (where does the painter David Hockney, the milliner Philip Treacy and James Dyson) have experienced an engagement ring made from the bone of two lovers. The principle: extract cells and place on a bioactive grille to allow their reproduction. The newly formed bone tissue is then associated with gold and converted into alliance. A ring ahead of his time, for now, is still at the experimental stage.

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