Van Cleef & Arpels Refreshes the Lucky Spring Collection
It's a springtime symphony with these enchanting new Lucky Spring jewellery creations.
The arrival of spring is a special and highly anticipated moment, more so at Van Cleef & Arpels where the season of new beginnings is always commemorated. One fine example is the Lucky Spring collection, which made an ethereal debut two years ago in the Maison’s enchanting garden, emanating positivity and embodying its poetic world.
In 2023, four new designs: two pendants, a Between the Finger ring and a bracelet are the latest additions to join the Lucky Spring family to bring wonder and joy. Pretty, playful and steeped in poetry, the creations evoke Van Cleef & Arpels’s cherished themes of nature and luck in binding the gentle motifs of flora and fauna with the brilliant ornamental stones to signal the awakening of nature.
The precious materials and vibrant palette of rose gold, white mother-of-pearl, onyx and carnelian come into play to portray a shimmering spring scene. Delicately brought alive through a trio of symbols: lily of the valley buds, ladybugs and plum blossoms, the charming bucolic scenography is imbued with a sense of purity and elegance, joy and luck.
Denoting renewal and resilience, the plum blossom is rendered with iridescent white mother-of-pearl and five rounded petals. The ladybug, a leading figure in the Maison’s animal kingdom that heralds spring and symbolises good luck, takes flight in brilliant carnelian, deep black onyx and radiant white mother-of-pearl to harmonise with the plum blossom and lily of the valley bud. Outlined in golden beads and paired with mirror-polished rose gold, these emblems of nature animate the Lucky Spring’s new quartet, alongside the collection’s existing pieces comprising a long necklace, three bracelets, a clip and a pair of earrings.
Of course, the savoir-faire of creating the Lucky Spring jewellery pieces also exemplifies precise and impeccable craftsmanship, from stone selection to stone cutting, jewellery work, setting and polishing. The traditional technique of lost-wax casting is used to realise the motifs while the golden beads are reworked individually and discreet prongs are carefully bent to hold the stones, working together to express the same decoration on both sides of the motifs with a final polishing for maximum beauty.
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