Hortensia or Giardino
Chaumet · Mellerio
Hortensia
Hydrangea florets gathered into pompoms, garlands and posies, the flower repeated in gold petals, pink opal and pavé.
Giardino
A four-petalled flower in openwork gold with a lace edge, set with one stone at its heart, taken from the gardens of Isola Madre on Lake Maggiore.
Isola Madre, the half-wild island garden on Lake Maggiore, gave Laure-Isabelle Mellerio her Giardino: a four-petalled openwork flower with a lace edge and one coloured stone at its heart. Chaumet's Hortensia remembers a different garden, Joséphine's at Malmaison, through hydrangea florets heaped into pompoms. Each was shaped by a woman directing design on the Place Vendôme, Claire Dévé-Rakoff at Chaumet from 2012. Together they show two ways a garden survives in gold: as a single remembered bloom, or as a whole bed of them.
| Fact | Hortensia | Giardino |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 2013 | — |
| Designer | Claire Dévé-Rakoff | Laure-Isabelle Mellerio |
| School | Place Vendôme | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | rose gold, white gold, yellow gold, diamond, opal, sapphire, ruby, coral, tourmaline, mother-of-pearl | rose gold, yellow gold, diamond, sapphire, ruby, tsavorite, garnet, other |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | Not published | €900 |
| Top of line | — | €18,000 |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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