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The Tressage collectıon of Cartıer combınes three dıfferent aesthetıcs

The Tressage collection is composed of three: Gold Bead Chains and Precious Rollers, Materials in Tension, and Twisted Coral Braided Diamonds and Gold. Gold Bead Chains and Precious Rollers include a ring and a bracelet made of dazzling, voluminous gold. Beautiful, clinking masterpieces with a material that begs to be touched and played with on the skin as it is comprised of countless gold beads.

The gold sphere is a defining form of the maison since Jeanne Toussaint’s period and more recently with the Paris Nouvelle Vague Collection. The several strands of moving gold beads in various sizes, which give the appearance of a continuous chain that would wrap around itself to produce expansive jewellery, are to thank for this illusion.

In order to create the appearance of supple, moving forms that priceless bonds appear unable to restrain, Cartier pushes the limits of appearance and changes hard materials like stone and gold in its Materials in Tension line. This jewellery makeover is based on the gadroon, the manipulation of volume and stones, and the artistic lexicon of the maison. It creates three worlds, each made up of a bracelet and a cocktail ring.

This tension-filled density of yellow gold, metaquartzite, and obsidian is striped with platinum strips adorned with inverted diamonds. a technological choice that strengthens the impression of a connection that twists on itself in an over and under effect.

Gold diamonds and coral is a colour palette that is true to Jeanne Toussaint’s chromatic heritage. To create a ring and a bracelet under the Twisted Coral Braided Diamonds and Gold line, Cartier transforms it into an illusionary game. As the band that wraps around the finger or wrist is a powerful trompe l’oeil, the design was created by the painstaking assembling of a series of metal components. The lapidary meticulously sliced the coral into cabochons, a process that may be undone at any time due to the coral’s brittleness.