In 1780, CHAUMET was established in Paris, and soon the gorgeous crown and top jewelry created by its unique aesthetics were favored by Queen Josephine and became its royal jewelry brand. Since then, CHAUMET has been closely connected with the historical development of France, continuing this wonderful fate to this day.
CHAUMET “Perspectives de Chaumet” series Lacis 18K white gold headwear.
French royal jewelry
CHAUMET was founded in 1780 in the Place Vendôme, Paris, France. The founder Marie-Étienne Nitot used outstanding jewelry craftsmanship to create gorgeous crowns, brilliant top jewelry, and wonderful watch works that cleverly integrated watchmaking skills in France. It became famous and even attracted the attention of Queen Josephine at the time. Soon, Queen Josephine fell in love with his various creations and designated it as her royal jewelry brand. Subsequently, Nitot received a large number of orders from the royal family and has since become a well-known jeweller in Europe.
CHAUMET Hortensia Aube Rosée series 18K rose gold earrings.
With the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, the successors began to devote themselves to creating romantic and gorgeous jewelry pieces, continuing the Art Deco style popular in France during the Italian Renaissance and the 17th century. In 1853, Paris began to return to the glorious and romantic atmosphere of life. The nobles once again began to pursue a life of drunkenness and gold. The family also created many ornately decorated jewelry accessories for banquets in this atmosphere.
CHAUMET Joséphine Aigrette Impériale necklace in 18K white gold.
In 1885, Joseph Chaumet began to join the family’s creative team. He once again carried forward the natural style of the past, creating works such as branch headdresses and crowns, which became a trend at the time and became a symbol of upper class society. Until the 1910s, due to the prevalence of tourism, which promoted cultural exchanges between the East and the West, the oriental style from India deeply influenced the European aesthetic perspective, and CHAUMET also began to make jewelry full of oriental mystery. After the popularity of decorative arts in the 1920s and the transition from classical to modern styles in the 1930s, CHAUMET has always been at the forefront of aesthetics and popularization, constantly transforming and evolving classical jewelry styles into the most popular contemporary styles, leading the creation of jewelry Those who keep moving forward.
CHAUMET crown of wild roses and jasmine, created around 1830.
Queen Josephine, the eternal muse
Over 240 years of development, CHAUMET has laid a solid foundation for craftsmanship, and has always created a diversified array of choices for jewelry wearers, including some of the most representative works. Among them, perhaps the most well-known is the Joséphine series. With Queen Josephine as the eternal muse, this series reveals the elegant lines, lightness and luxury that CHAUMET is good at. Whether it is a wedding ring for engagement, a gorgeous chain, a crown, and an elegant design are integrated into modernization. The decoration, spanning time and space, allows us to appreciate the refined and unique aesthetic vision of Queen Josephine back then. The naturalistic style is another favorite of CHAUMET. With the concept of a garden, CHAUMET presents many beautiful jewels that surround the theme of nature. In this garden, the fresh and tender hydrangea in full bloom greets visitors, enters the colorful world with the bees flying among the flowers, and explores among the wheat ears swaying in the wind.
CHAUMET Jeux de Liens 18K rose gold earrings.
CHAUMET uses exquisite construction methods and chain-washing design to closely connect the love and fate between people with symbolic techniques. The Liens series of jewels are named after the “connection”. The crossed pattern represents the meeting of the fortunes of the two.
CHAUMET Liens Séduction 18K rose gold bracelet.
Build ideas in Vientiane, create new ideas
In 2020, CHAUMET relaunched its new top-level jewelry series “Perspective de Chaumet: Building Art in Vientiane”. In the past, CHAUMET always took inspiration from all things in the world, including naturalism, culture, and historical background, as different creative ideas. Continuing to this year, CHAUMET continues the past, looking for new creative spindles in the architectural aesthetics closely linked with human civilization, giving top-level jewelry a new look.
The new jewellery works fully reflect the evolution and evolution of the architectural style of past human history and civilization, including the Renaissance to contemporary deconstructionism, to Russian constructivism, Bauhaus (Bauhaus)ism and Italian futurism. The evolution of these architectural styles is a result of the continuous evolution of human history, civilization and contemporary aesthetics, and it still has a profound impact on the new generation of architects’ vision of the world.
CHAUMET “Perspectives de Chaumet” series Lacis 18K white gold necklace, inlaid with a pear-shaped red tourmaline of approximately 21.93 carats.
CHAUMET uses craftsmanship inherited for more than two hundred years to carefully grind, polish and carve every inch of precious metals, and inlay extraordinary and rare colorful jewels, such as Colombian emeralds, Burmese sapphires, Australian opals, etc., to form a deconstructed architectural concept. The lines are displayed in front of the world in a completely different abstract style. So we see that the polished metal presents a natural and beautiful curve, surrounding the gemstone to make it as light and transparent as a suspension, glowing with dazzling light. With its naturalistic style, the family has carved out vines and flower patterns on these works drawn from the lines of buildings, allowing the perfect combination of classical inheritance and modern art concepts to create a new sense of beauty.
CHAUMET “Perspectives de Chaumet” series Labyrinthe rose gold brooch.
Source: “Jewelry Star” Issue 77
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