Gemstone jewelery and objects on display trace a century of the jewelery house’s 117-year history
2024 is preparing to welcome us with one last chance to find ourselves in a “garden of wonders”. No visit to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York is complete without a tour of the Mignone Halls of Gems and Mineralsbut for some months now a green glow has been emerging from one of the exhibition spaces, the Meister Gallery.
There the museum hosts the exhibition “Garden of Green: Exquisite Jewelry from the Collection of Van Cleef & Arpels”. It is a journey from science to art and yes, there is a lot of greenfrom the green of the apple to the green of the evergreen trees: the jeweled jewels and objects on display trace a century of the 117-year history of the jewelry house Van Cleef & Arpels.
“Green symbolizes hope and, of course, the inspiration of nature,” said Alexandrine Maviel-Sonet, director of jewelry exhibitions, who collaborated with Dr. George E. Harlow of the AMNH to design the “Garden of Green.”
The exhibition presents 44 pieces from the history of the French house. Among them the impressive necklace Quatre Chemins.
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Most of the exhibits come from the Van Cleef & Arpels archive but some are on loan from private collections. Thirty-two pieces are on public display for the first time in the US. Emerald and jade (zand) may reign supreme in the public consciousness, but visitors may love a gemstone they were previously unfamiliar with.
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The show is organized into sections: emerald, green chalcedony, chrysoprase, malachite, peridot and jadeite, while the Variants of Green section presents a potpourri of gems in creations inspired by the natural world.
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Maviel-Sonet underlined the supreme importance that stones have in the creative process of the house. “The stones come first. We have to choose the best stones. Once we have the stones, we can do the design and creation,” he explained. The exhibition ends in January 2024.
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Source :Skai
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