Few jewellery maisons have as innate an understanding of delicate, feminine beauty as Van Cleef & Arpels. The house has its timeless heroine in the Alhambra line, but for a season as tender and hopeful as Spring you might look to its Frivole collection.
Fashioned as flowers and bouquets made from heart shaped petals, the Frivole range by the French jeweller is its contemporary beacon of nature-inspired designs. The house has a long history with turning botanical motifs and references into precious objects and jewellery.
This year, Van Cleef & Arpels is introducing five fresh Frivole novelties that further the inclusion of diamonds in the collection. The new designs are led by a white gold bracelet with seven flowers of different sizes. It’s shaped in an asymmetric open style, with the petals and corollas of the flowers, and the band of the bracelet, set with close to three hundred diamonds in total.
This batch of new designs also sees the introduction of a two-tone white and rose gold design to Frivole, in the form of an eight-flower ring. The blooms are artfully arranged with different heights and angles, as if a precious bouquet. Three rose gold flowers are mirror polished and accented with a diamond at their centres, while the white gold flowers are fully paved with diamonds.
And lastly, for those with perhaps more subtle tastes, the Frivole collection now offers rose gold earrings and a pendant in a small model. These understated creations have at their centre a diamond that’s carefully set and secured to the heart of the flower, and petals which are gleamingly mirror polished.
To complete the set, there’s a Between the Finger ring in rose gold with two asymmetrical flowers. The smaller blossom matches the earrings and pendant, with a single diamond, while the larger flower is set with a triad of diamonds.
