Exclusive tour of the Dior fine jewelry workshop in Paris

That's the icing on the cake. In the gigantic Dior liner on Avenue Montaigne, in addition to a huge shop, there is a café and a restaurant, a museum, a vertical garden and tree-lined terraces, a large haute couture workshop (which dates from the installation of Monsieur Dior in these walls in 1946), but also, it is less known, a newly fitted high jewelry workshop on the seventh and last floor, crowning this concentrate of luxury and French know-how. Only a small handful of people have the special badge to climb the elevator up there, under the roof, in this space of 150 square meters, highly secure, where diamonds and platinum, mother-of-pearl and multicolored sapphires have been handled for a few months.

During our visit - the first by a journalist since the installation of the workshop, and probably one of the few that will happen - the artisans are working on the next collection of high jewelry, called Les Jardins de la ...

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