Bamboo

Echoing Empress Joséphine’s passion for botany, the Maison has set itself apart as a naturalist jeweler since its beginnings.

At the intersection of earth and sky, the new Bamboo High Jewelry collection perpetuates this historic link with nature, boldly capturing the pure beauty of the plant and illustrating nature in all its preciousness and resilience.

Chaumet surprises with this tribute to Asia by seizing upon the majesty of a plant relatively underrepresented in its stylistic repertoire: bamboo.

A symbol of integrity in China, tenacity and modesty in Japan, the collection is like the plant that rises majestically towards the sky yet is able to bend without breaking.

Lending contemporary impact to the neckline, the bib necklace is composed of graphic leaves and stems. The masterful use of articulation gives it surprising suppleness, just as the combination of bead bright and cut-down settings testifies to the preeminence of the 12 Vendôme artisans.

The shimmering gold is enhanced by a superb black Australian opal, whose vivid fire flickers with an original combination of colors, from bright blue to apple green, gorgeously complemented by tsavorite garnets.

Three rings play on the same association of gems and colors but distinguish themselves with their singular designs.

While the first has an elongated form accentuating the capsule’s defining slender silhouette, the second revisits the toi-et-moi motif in an unexpected way, with the garnet’s intensity reflected in the opal’s fires. The third and final ring is topped with a cushion-cut tsavorite garnet.

With the passage of time, reflecting the tastes of successive eras, each of the thirteen workshop directors has reinterpreted the iconic theme of nature in their own way, always capturing it without artifice, in an ode to life and movement.