What makes a tremendous jewelry assortment a traditional? For Parisian jewelry home Boucheron, the successful method is a playful mixture of distinctive design and wearability, completely encapsulated within the ‘Quatre’ assortment, which in 2024 celebrates its twentieth anniversary.
Launched initially as a hoop design solely, the unique piece had an uncomplicated premise: 4 bands (a easy nod to the identify, which is French for ‘4’), with interlocking circles holding their very own distinct texture and end. Every nods to a aspect of Boucheron’s historical past, from the fluted design of the primary band, recalling the couture heritage and ribbons of the model’s founder, Frédéric Boucheron, the son of a draper, to the second band in mirror-polished diamonds paying homage to excessive jewelry. The third band’s faceted motif is impressed by Paris’ cobbled streets, whereas the fourth, made up of two rings joined collectively, echoes a romantic approach that Boucheron first launched again within the nineteenth century.
Now, the unique ring has grown to grow to be a set of rings, earrings, bracelets and necklaces characterised by a mixture of textures, supplies and kinds. In some items, the unique sample is faithfully replicated, studded with diamonds or solid in brown PVD-coated gold or gentle titanium; in others, the motifs are changed into new, graphic designs. Alongside the traditional four-band ring, a simplified two-band piece and elongated necklace have additionally been launched, for a extra minimalist temper.
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