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Frivole

Van Cleef & Arpels · 2003

Frivole

A flower of heart-shaped petals in gold polished to a mirror, so smooth the bare metal throws light like a stone.

Introduced
2003 — House timeline: 'Creation of the Frivole collection', 2003. Some watch-trade sources give 2004. Heart-shaped petals appear in the house's work from the 1940s.
Idea
The quatrefoil and the flower
School
Place Vendôme
Materials
yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond

Frivole at Van Cleef & Arpels

The story

Heart-shaped petals turn up on Van Cleef & Arpels cigarette cases and clips from the 1940s. In 2003 the house built a collection on them, scattering the blossoms in loose, asymmetric clusters and finishing each petal by hand with the mirror polish it has used since the 1920s; diamond centres, pavé petals and a Between the Finger ring followed.

The ladder

  1. Signature Frivole pendant, large model, 18K yellow gold and diamond Not published

Prices as published by Van Cleef & Arpels in euros, October 2026.

Lineage

  • Piaget Rose ring in rose gold: a full-blown rose whose petals are paved with diamonds, on a transparent ground.

    Answered by · 2012

    Piaget Rose, Piaget (2012)

    Piaget Rose builds the gold flower up in layered petals, modelled on the rose named for Yves Piaget.

  • Blossom Triple ring in white gold: three linked blossoms with diamond-set petals across the top of the band

    Answered by · 2016

    Blossom, Boodles (2016)

    Blossom keeps the gold flowers small and beads their petals with diamonds like dew.

If you love Frivole

On the map
Blossom Triple ring in white gold: three linked blossoms with diamond-set petals across the top of the band
Image © Boodles

Blossom

Boodles · 2016 From €2,502
Le Petit Cactus ring with five rose gold cactus flowers of spiky stamens, each centred on a white, brown or yellow diamond, on a cream ground
Image © Mellerio

Le Petit Cactus

Mellerio · 2019 From €440
Plume de Paon small ring in rose gold: a diamond-paved peacock feather wrapping the finger, with a larger diamond as the eye, on a white ground.
Image © Boucheron

Plume de Paon

Boucheron · 1860 From €6,950
Giardino ring in rose gold: an openwork four-petalled flower with a lace-edged outline paved with diamonds and a round diamond at the centre, on a cream ground
Image © Mellerio

Giardino

Mellerio From €900
Les Pétales Place Vendôme ring: a white Akoya pearl beside two curved petals paved with diamonds in white gold
Image © MIKIMOTO

Les Pétales Place Vendôme

MIKIMOTO From €7,200
Piaget Rose ring in rose gold: a full-blown rose whose petals are paved with diamonds, on a transparent ground.
Image © Piaget

Piaget Rose

Piaget · 2012 From €1,490
Grain de Café ring in yellow and white gold: four grooved gold coffee beans tipped with diamonds, on a pale grey ground.
Image © Cartier

Grain de Café

Cartier · 1938 From €7,900
Lily Cluster

Lily Cluster

Harry Winston · 2010

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Sources

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