New collections at Chaumet and Buccellati were inspired by those in the past.
For two heritage jewelry houses, inspirations from the past are back in modernized versions at the high jewelry presentations this week in Paris.
For Benoît Verhulle, the head of the jewelry atelier at Chaumet, the Blé necklace reprised a familiar theme: Its wheat motif has been part of the house’s lexicon for more than 200 years. (One of the most famous pieces in its archives is a wheat diadem, called the Ear of Wheat, which was commissioned by Napoleon in 1810.)
But this necklace, in the 68-piece Le Jardin de Chaumet collection, actually is two.
One is a yellow-gold wheat
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