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13 ideas

Ideas

Every great house keeps returning to a handful of them. So do the rest.

  1. Elsa Peretti medium Bone cuff in 18k gold, for the left wrist, polished and undulating, on a white ground.
    The gold band 19 houses · Cartier, Bulgari, Tiffany & Co.… Gold with nothing set in it, where the profile, the twist or the stack is the whole idea.
  2. 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
    The screw and the bolt 6 houses · Van Cleef & Arpels, FRED, Cartier… From 1966 to 1976 jewellers raided the toolbox for screws, nails, shackles and locks.
  3. Serpenti necklace in white gold paved with diamonds, the snake's head and tapering tail lying on embossed BVLGARI paper
    The snake 2 houses · Bulgari, Boucheron Coiled round the arm since antiquity, and wound on a Tubogas spring since 1948.
  4. Nudo Classic ring: a square faceted garnet in a white-gold collet on a thin rose-gold band, on a pale grey ground.
    The cabochon 3 houses · Pomellato, FRED, Vhernier Polish a stone instead of faceting it and you trade its fire for colour and depth.
  5. Granelli bracelet: a circle of dimpled rose-gold grains closed by a white-metal T-bar, on a white ground
    The chain as the piece 9 houses · Tiffany & Co., Bulgari, DoDo… When the link stops carrying a pendant and becomes the whole jewel.
  6. Piaget Rose ring in rose gold: a full-blown rose whose petals are paved with diamonds, on a transparent ground.
    The quatrefoil and the flower 15 houses · Boucheron, Cartier, Harry Winston… A clover drawn for luck in 1968, and the petals other houses have offered in reply.
  7. Akoya cultured pearl strand of matched white pearls laid in a circle, with a small yellow gold clasp
    The pearl 2 houses · MIKIMOTO, TASAKI Ago Bay, 1893: Mikimoto's half-round pearls, and the end of the pearl as pure chance.
  8. Raindance Classic ring in platinum: round diamonds of different sizes in collet settings scattered across open bands
    The pavé sphere 12 houses · Boucheron, Boodles, Harry Winston… A street of small diamonds, set so close that the metal vanishes.
  9. Trinity ring, classic model: three interlinked bands of yellow, rose and white gold, on a pale grey ground.
    The knot and the link 12 houses · Cartier, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels… Knotted, interlaced, hooked: jewelry about two things held as one.
  10. Panthère de Cartier ring in yellow gold: a sculpted panther head with black lacquer spots, green eyes and an onyx nose, on a pale grey ground.
    The animal 7 houses · Boucheron, Cartier, DoDo… Most great houses keep an animal; Cartier's has been the panther since 1914.
  11. Happy Diamonds Icons pendant in rose gold on a chain: a round glass-fronted locket with three loose diamonds inside, on a white ground.
    The moving element 6 houses · Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Chopard… It rolls, it slides, it unzips: the jewel that will not keep still.
  12. The Tiffany Setting engagement ring: a round brilliant diamond held by six prongs on a platinum band engraved Tiffany & Co., on a white ground.
    The single stone 13 houses · Tiffany & Co., Cartier, Harry Winston… One stone, and a setting that exists only to lift it into the light.
  13. 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.
    The emblem and the coin 6 houses · Tiffany & Co., Chaumet, dinh van… The jewel as signature: a letter, a key tag, a house name cut twice, a coin from Rome.