There is something inspiring about watching the waves of the sea crash against a sandy shore. And if any person feels a surge of creative forces from such a spectacle, one can only guess how it excites the imagination of truly creative individuals.
Claire Devé-Rakoff, Chaumet's creative director and avid photographer, was so impressed by the play of water and light. She captured it with her camera, and for her debut at the Paris Biennale des Antiquaires, she prepared the Lumières d'Eau collection, the main theme of which is light and water.
Her opulent collection is ready to flood the Grand Palais with ocean blue-greens and a myriad of hues like liquid gems: sapphires, emeralds, lapis lazuli, tanzanites and tourmalines, watery white Ethiopian opals, warm sandy yellow sapphires and golden South Pacific pearls. Claire is a passionate colorist and her jewelry is an invitation to dive head first into the precious waters of premium gems.
In her collection, there was a place for necklaces decorated with blue sapphires, and earrings with golden-sand sapphires - in a combination that serve as a symbol of the coast and the waves.
There is also a bright blue 45,64-carat tanzanite among the jewelry, which seemed to have emerged from the depths of the sea to be hoisted like a pompom on a necklace with lapis lazuli and black spinel. This piece, along with 59,58- and 39-carat ice-white opals from another piece in the Lumières d'Eau collection, are among the largest stones Chaumet has ever worked with.
Although the debut collection of Virgo-Rakoff is full of rich colors of the surging sea, the designer has not forgotten to sing of water in its frozen incarnation. For this, Claire used white diamonds interspersed with rock crystal, a material that Chaumet has not worked with for many years, but which is again gaining popularity in the jewelry industry.
In total, this September in Paris at the Biennale des Antiquaires, 53 magical jewelry will be exhibited, which will take visitors to the kingdom of water and introduce them to the treasures hidden by the depths of the sea.
