From the golden laurel crown of Caesar to the Rose diamond brooch of the Empress Eugénie, from the Pivoine clip in mysterious setting by Van Cleef & Arpels for Princess Fawzia of Egypt to the Cartier Tutti Frutti necklace from the Duchess of Windsor… The history of jewelry is dotted with flowers and plants. They have always served the powerful to express their power as much as their aesthetic sense, and the jewelers to surpass themselves technically. The challenge is always the same: to be as faithful as possible to the miracles of nature, by lightening the precious metal, by inventing fascinating gradations of colors, by resizing the stones to create the illusion.
In the first versions of her Ginkgo jewelry, Aurélie Bidermann dipped the leaf directly into a gold bath. Aurélie Bidermann
The Piaget Rose, one of the most famous flowers in jewelry. Etienne Delacrétaz / © Piaget
Aurélie Bidermann, a few years ago, pushed the exercise by dipping Ginkgo leaves in gold, imagining ultra-realistic pendants. But in contemporary collections, beyond the technical, the goal of the jewelers is to delimit their territory in this precious garden. Many have elected
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