The tradition of jewelry as a token of love was perpetuated with the Quatre ring, created in 2003 by Solange Azagury-Partridge and released the following year. Born from a mixing of materials and textures, the Quatre signals and perfects the union of love between two beings. Inspired by the balustrades of Buddhist stupas, Ottoman weavings, and Roman moldings, it also appears as the undying memory of Monsieur Boucheron’s travels, to bring us beyond the intimacy of a two-person life. The Quatre ring offers the world around your finger, and is quintessentially a marriage of art and world cultures.
Released several times in simple, double, and quadruple versions, in yellow, grey, and pink gold, or in black and white gold, Boucheron presented its latest incarnation during the Haute Couture runways in Paris. A timeless formula, the Quatre ring has enlarged itself to perfect the wrists of women in love. With a more arachnean style, Claire Choisne surprises us by working more with empty space rather than filling it, leaving the motifs to appear as a negative on the skin. The real jewel is no longer in the 4 different textures, but rather the woman who wears them. A first, more graphic version opts for simplicity, but the second, encrusted with diamonds, evokes a neo Art-Deco style sure to revive the sensual imagination of any woman.
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