At Fabergé, fine jewelry is flirting with originality: following the Matelassée collection that’s already won over many a heart, the latest fineries are now presenting themselves under the name Treillage.
The sheer wonderment that a Fabergé egg provokes still hasn’t ceased to enrapture us, time after time, its shapes and curves are borrowed from 19th century Czarina Maria Feodorovna’s personal sketches: the Russian dynasty continues to be a major source of inspiration for the design house. Indeed, influences from Empress Alexandra’s mauve salon in the Romanov Palace in Pushkin were already evident in Matelassé.
And now this unique family of jewelry is expanding: the silhouette that defines Treillage is worked into rings, earrings, and lavallière necklaces. The accompanying optical experience is every bit as pleasing as the mythical Fabergé hen itself. Hanging from a unicolor chain, engraved in white gold or rose beige, polished or glossy, the egg is there. Unchanging. Forever set with crystals, albeit split up when in ring form. It slips onto the finger like an icy cushion, but this particular ring is worked with the very same scrupulousness as the very first geniuses of Fabergé. The colors dazzle in their clarity. White diamonds or precious stones of many colors are dressed up with an unrivaled finesse. Although a bit toned down, the egg nevertheless retains a certain gracile note, sounding out like the first cadence of a Russian opera.
Like the incarnation of a cultural complex, in Paris or Saint Petersburg; the Fabergé egg may be ostentatious, but it’s oh so authentic.
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