VAN CLEEF & ARPELS: THE VERSAILLES NECKLACE

Neck­lace Versailles

The jew­els within the Jardin à la Française (The French Gar­den) are influ­enced by the impec­ca­bly designed gar­dens of Ver­sailles which were cre­ated by André Le Nôtre, the land­scape archi­tect and gar­dener for King Louis XIV from 1645 to 1700. Le Nôtre’s land­scapes sought to bri­dle nature, tak­ing her palette of organic exu­ber­ance and com­mand­ing it, as a painter would, cre­at­ing an ide­al­ized vision of the world where order, con­trol, and above all else, beauty is all that there is to view. The Ver­sailles neck­lace, with its flowerbeds of pink and yel­low dia­monds, mean­ders across the body with a light ges­ture that belies its importance.


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