How Van Cleef & Arpels brings the romance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to its high jewellery pieces
Dialogue between high jewellery, dance, music and the visual arts inspires collection of 100 magnificent jewels
Van Cleef & Arpels and William Shakespeare are a marriage made in heaven. The artistic glory of the Renaissance and the romance between Romeo and Juliet have inspired a collection of 100 magnificent and unique jewels.
Nicolas Bos, president and CEO of Van Cleef & Arpels, says: “Shakespeare’s masterpiece acts as the starting point for a new thematic collection, and also provides a dialogue between high jewellery, dance, music and the visual arts.”
The lovers themselves, the famous balcony, the gardens and the architecture of beautiful Verona, even the colours of the warring families, are brought into play.
The famous couple become three-dimensional delights as clips in white gold, rose gold, yellow gold, black lacquer, rubies, coloured sapphires, spessartite garnets, lapis lazuli, white and yellow diamonds. Emerald foliage drips from a diamond balcony to form the Balcone clip, which wonderfully depicts Romeo and Juliet in rose gold on the back. Mystery-set rubies and diamonds recreate ancient ramparts in the Merli bracelet.
