Editor’s Note
**Editor’s Note:** This article highlights the year’s most breathtaking high jewelry collections, showcasing rare gemstones, visionary design, and masterful craftsmanship.
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The Year’s Most Breathtaking High Jewelry Collections Celebrate Rare Gems and Extraordinary Craft
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has to offer in creativity, design, and craft. Insane gemstones, imaginative references, and age-old and innovative techniques define the latest in high jewelry—here’s what we’re most excited about right now.
The Paradise Birds brooches show creatures taking flight or sitting above incredible stones, like Australian boulder opals and chrysoprase, American chrysocolla, Namibian purple chalcedony, and Nigerian spessartine. Meanwhile, the Daisy designs speak more to pattern and movement in jewelry design, with curves and forms evoking the imperfect perfection of nature itself.
Each year, Tiffany & Co. introduces a one-of-a-kind iteration of The Legendary Bird to celebrate the enduring legacy of Schlumberger’s 1965 Bird on a Rock design, which remains a strong source of inspiration for Nathalie Verdeille, the senior vice president and chief artistic officer of jewelry and high jewelry for Tiffany & Co. and Tiffany Design Studio. The Sapphire Edition features black opal doublets, sapphires, pearls,
Pomellato’s latest high jewelry launch,
The Chromatic Audacity chapter signals the house’s commitment to rainbow shades but also to rare and exceptional gemstones that deliver a punch, such as Paraíba tourmalines, Mandarin garnets, pink spinels, and tsavorites. Pomellato’s history is rooted in the craft of goldsmithing, and in the Magnetic Gold chapter, the precious metal plays an outsized role in the jewelry and courses through with authority.
reflects on the power of human beings in the midst of technology and artificial intelligence creeping ever more into our lives. The five high jewelry sets, each consisting of a necklace and ring, are crafted from different materials but share the same silhouette, such as a cluster necklace, highlighting the idea that every person is unique yet shares commonalities. The more you observe each necklace, the more you discover—just like with humans.
This collection features an incredible mix of stones—rubies, sapphires, emeralds, rubellites, and tourmalines mingle with lapis lazuli, turquoise, and rock crystal. These combinations were selected by the maison’s gemologists with artists like Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois’s and Émile Prisse d’Avennes’s work in mind. The craftspeople also created rich details for each piece of jewelry, such as engravings, beading, textures, and hammering, to them a rich sense of history and finesse. Every piece is also marked with a cartouche made of hieroglyphics depicting the Van Cleef & Arpels monogram, as one more homage to ancient Egypt.
latest high jewelry collection, is a reimagination of the talismans that defined Gabrielle Chanel’s world: the Camellia, the Star, the Sun, and the Lion. The 85 new pieces shine in precious sapphires, rubies, emeralds, and diamonds, while hard stones add strength to the designs. All the pieces are connected by Chanel’s own leanings toward mysteries, signs, and symbols.
, Dior’s latest high jewelry collection, celebrates the intermingling of art and nature. Victoire de Castellane, the artistic director of Dior Joaillerie, used collage—the art of combining various materials, like paper, photographs, and textiles, into one work—to reimagine Christian Dior’s obsessions with flora and fauna in the new creations.
Many of these pieces have been crafted by the house’s master jewelers using the doublet technique, which allows for thin stones to be laid over each other to emphasize gradations in color. Many of the jewelry designs are also enhanced with lacquer, which is something de Castellane loves to utilize.
Le Chœur des Pierres High Jewelry necklace features emeralds, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and diamonds.
A radiant ring, indeed: Le Chœur des Pierres High Jewelry ring stuns with just white gold, diamonds, and onyx.
is an ode to how the infinite beauty and power of gemstones serve as muses for jewelers as they are designing.
collection is themed around the brilliance of light and includes 60 high jewelry creations. The house, which has been in existence for over 130 years, uses design traditions long in its vernacular to riff anew on the idea of how light transforms, empowers, and highlights.
collection is a tribute to Venice and the unique soul of the city. Venice is known for its centuries-old crafts that still exist in its labyrinth of streets today. This new collection is an ode to Mario Buccellati’s love of and fascination with the delicate needlework of Burano lace. The details of the jewelry are finely crafted using Renaissance techniques that the maison is still keeping alive today: sculpted leaves are created with
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