Grain de Café or Le Petit Cactus
Cartier · Mellerio
Grain de Café
The coffee bean, full and grooved down its middle, cast in gold and gathered into clusters.
Le Petit Cactus
The flower of the vanilla cactus, which opens for one night a year, made as a small burst of rose gold stamens around a single stone.
Le Petit Cactus recalls Marie-Antoinette, Mellerio's first royal client, who had Redouté paint the vanilla cactus whose flower opens one night a year; Laure-Isabelle Mellerio turned it into small rose-gold stamens around a single stone in 2019. Grace Kelly, later Princess of Monaco, wore Grain de Café in the years after Jeanne Toussaint introduced the coffee bean at Cartier in 1938, a solid, grooved gold form far from the cactus's fine burst.
| Fact | Grain de Café | Le Petit Cactus |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 1938 | 2019 |
| Designer | Jeanne Toussaint | Laure-Isabelle Mellerio |
| School | Place Vendôme | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | yellow gold, white gold, platinum, diamond, tourmaline | rose gold, diamond, coloured diamond, sapphire, tsavorite, other |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | €7,900 | €440 |
| Top of line | €371,000 | €4,100 |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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