“Expensive things hardly interest me if their value is simply in so many diamonds or pearls.” A more refined work, an artistic and subtle profoundness. Pierre-Carl Fabergé cultivated and passed down this obsession for colorful art through the generations, working with a mixture of sculpture and enamel. The eggs were imagined down to the smallest details in 1892, then encrusted with precious stones like sumptuous finery. This year, the brand is taking inspiration from them and expanding its line of jewelry with a few brand new pieces. Front and center is the generosity of each gem’s colors. For this collection, the jewelry artist is surrounding itself with engravers and enamelists, letting the beauty of the stones express itself.
The collection consists of rings, necklaces, and earrings made of rose or white quilted gold. A subtle allusion to the mauve salon of Empress Alexandra in her palace in Pushkin. But what makes the Treillage collection truly unique are the tsavorites, sapphires, emeralds, amethysts, and rubies that sprinkle these marvelous pieces with a number of enrapturing pigments. You can find the Fabergé egg on a pendant necklace; cut with minute adeptness, the stones rub up against subtle shades that are almost scientific and romanesque. The aesthetic is fabulously opulent; this colorful refinement proves that Fabergé knows how to combine its legacy with modernity, without altering the great finesse of nostalgia and nobility.
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