green with ivy
In 1881, jeweller Frédéric Boucheron created a necklace using ivy as a motif. With history always serving as inspiration for the present, Boucheron’s current creative director Claire Choisne used that as the basis for the maison’s new ‘Lierre de Paris’ collection – with diamonds used to recreate the ‘Ivy of Paris’ in its headlining signature ‘question mark’ necklace.
Ivy is no new motif for Choisne. She did, after all, choose it as the first motif from Boucheron’s archives for her debut collection. Ivy popped up now and then through subsequent collections, and now takes centre stage again in Lierre de Paris. The necklace – bold, big and beautiful – uses 1,246 diamonds larger-than-usual pave set (44.65 carats in total) pieced together like fine French lace held together by discreet white gold. Ivy leaves, delicate and dainty, remains the subject of the other eight pieces, including a bracelet hiding a timepiece under a leaf and a ring based on a coiling tendril.
