Écrin

Place Vendôme · Paris, since 1936

FRED

A Paris jeweller with salt air in it: braided steel marine cable closed by a gold shackle, worn by men as readily as by women. Its other hand is sunny and South American, tall sugarloaf cabochons in candy-coloured stones and hearts traced in pink gold.

Founded by Fred Samuel. Ideas from €950. FRED site

Two Force 10 bracelets in rose gold with diamond-set shackles, one on a diamond line, one on a gold chain, on a cream ground with water drops
Image © FRED

Force 10

1966 From €1,230
Pain de Sucre

Pain de Sucre

2013 From €6,220
A hand at a woman's chin wearing a Pretty Woman ring: a red-stone heart inside a diamond-set heart in white gold
Image © FRED

Pretty Woman

From €950
Chance Infinie necklace in white gold paved with diamonds, a figure-eight knot at the front with two drops, on a sunlit beige ground
Image © FRED

Chance Infinie

2016 From €1,580

The conversation

FRED answering

  • Return to Tiffany heart tag chain link necklace in sterling silver, the tag engraved Please Return to Tiffany & Co. New York, on a green ground beside an orange Andy Warhol bird from the 2022 holiday campaign.

    Pretty Woman after Return to Tiffany, Tiffany & Co.

    FRED also wears the heart as a sign: a heart within a heart, traced in gold and lit with diamonds.

  • Nudo Classic ring: a square faceted garnet in a white-gold collet on a thin rose-gold band, on a pale grey ground.

    Pain de Sucre after Nudo, Pomellato

    Pain de Sucre shares Nudo's taste for colour over fire and raises it into a tall sugarloaf cabochon that can be changed at will.

Answered by other houses

  • Jack de Boucheron three-turn piece in yellow gold: a coiled flexible gold cable with its faceted jack-shaped clasp ends, on a white ground.

    Jack de Boucheron, Boucheron after Force 10

    Jack takes up the supple cable closed by an industrial fitting and swaps the shackle for a faceted audio-jack plug.

  • Piaget Solstice high jewellery ring in gold: stacked bands carrying a large cushion-cut pink centre stone with smaller coloured gems and diamonds, on a pale portrait panel within a transparent square.

    Piaget Solstice, Piaget after Pain de Sucre

    Solstice gives the big coloured stone a garnish that comes away, so one ring can be worn dressed or bare.

Inside the house

  • Chance Infinie necklace in white gold paved with diamonds, a figure-eight knot at the front with two drops, on a sunlit beige ground

    Chance Infinie after Force 10

    FRED's eightieth-year infinity link is made to clip onto the same braided steel cable the Force 10 shackle closes.

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