Blurring the boundaries as animals break free from their natural environments to enter new realms, this high-jewellery collection presents a theatre of apparitions. Here, precious animals parade with masterful volumes, precise designs, and incredible savoir-faire, stirring mystery and imagination.
Captured in a fleeting moment, they tell us their stories. From the pendant of a necklace, a turtle escapes to become a brooch, whilst a pink flamingo points its head towards the centre of a bush of emerald reeds.
The style is varied, free and figurative, as a snow leopard treads softly across an icecap formed of diamonds and rock crystal. This becomes even more radical and abstract under the watchful eye of the designer who, inspired by the scales of a crocodile, creates a ring with an incredible sense of architecture.
There’s a playfulness about it, a joyful game of hide-and-seek where creatures appear where you least expect them. Cartier further blurs boundaries as animals break free from their natural environment to enter new worlds. A snake splits in two to become a necklace, while its scales are transformed into an urban chessboard; meanwhile, the silhouette of a beetle emerges from a necklace with an abstract motif, reminiscent of a skyscraper.
They owe their wild side to the intensity of their personality, an energy that is expressed without restraint through the brilliance of these unique pieces.
