This season, the Parisian house embraced natural wonders with a sense of hyperrealism. Pavé diamonds and vivid stones took on a life of their own, cast into whisper-thin leaves, ornate flowers, and even fuzzy caterpillars. The Carte Blanche, Impermanence high jewelry collection consisted of six jewelry compositions made up of 28 pieces inspired by the ephemeral beauty of nature’s perennials and critters. From tulip and eucalyptus brooches molded from borosilicate glass with diamond dusted petals, to a caterpillar embellished with diamonds and black spinels coupled with a diamond encrusted butterfly, the collection captured moments of earth’s beauty suspended in time.

“In this new Carte Blanche collection, I’ve sought to capture the beauty of nature before it vanishes,” Claire Choisne, Boucheron creative director, wrote in a press release. Altogether, the pieces took 18,000 hours of work by skilled artisans to create.

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Cindy Chao the Art Jewel and Pasquale Bruni