Tiffany & Co. held an exclusive event to celebrate the launch of BOTANICA, their annual high jewelry Blue Book line. The event honored Tiffany & Co.'s transformable products and great designers while paying tribute to Tiffany's heritage's eternal botanical elements.
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Guests were taken around numerous rooms at a private property in Miami, that were thematically linked to the collection's ideas for the high jewelry experience.
Tiffany Ambassadors Adria Arjona, Meadow Walker, Caro Daur, Praya Lundberg, Camila Queiroz, and others, as well as Pharrell Williams and Zoey Deutch, attended the celebration wearing Tiffany & Co. jewelry.
Blue Book 2022: BOTANICA by Tiffany & Co. re-imagines the company's legacy motifs, resulting in contemporary high jewelry creations featuring the world's best diamonds and colored gemstones, all while celebrating the timeless beauty of flora. Orchids and dandelions, wisterias and thistles, reappear as inventive, transformable jewels. Jean Schlumberger's lush flora interpretations are a perfect match for the new Blue Book designs. Each defiant flower is part of an otherworldly gem garden, a magnificent showcase of the House's exceptional know-how.
“BOTANICA is the ultimate expression of everything Tiffany & Co. represents today. It is about honoring our incredible heritage while innovating for a new generation,” said Alexandre Arnault, Executive Vice President, Product & Communication, Tiffany & Co.
The themes of the collection reinterpret certain floral motifs that have long served as a source of creative inspiration for Tiffany & Co. Dandelion seeds, for example, are abstracted into a succession of diamond-intensive motifs based on a single design element from an early 20th century Louis Comfort Tiffany hair clip. The dandelion-inspired necklace, which can be worn in five different ways, is the most adaptable of the many transformable pieces in BOTANICA. The necklace has ingenious mechanisms that allow it to convert with ease, including two interchangeable pendants, a baguette diamond choker, and a long diamond chain.
The orchid is a prominent motif in BOTANICA, which juxtaposes ordinary flower species with rare and exotic ones. The reinspired orchid designs are sculptural and extremely lifelike, and they evolve G. Paulding Farnham's orchid brooches that he designed for Tiffany's display at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. An artisan used platinum to reproduce the delicate contours of an orchid petal on one transformable brooch, illuminating each with a mosaic of round rose-cut, modified rose-cut, and round brilliant diamonds, then accenting with 18k yellow gold "brushstrokes." The thistle, for example, is depicted as complex jewels with a beautiful texture. To simulate the spiky texture of thistles, artisans put trillion-cut gemstones by hand at precise angles and as close together as feasible.
The iconic designer's brilliant naturalistic themes, which have been a source of wonder at Tiffany & Co. for nearly two centuries, are reinterpreted with surprising gemstone pairings, bringing new twists on the legendary designer's spectacular floral-inspired masterpieces. Jean Schlumberger's Fleurage bracelet is set with a captivating over 48-carat cushion-cut aquamarine, artistically bordered by diamond flower petals, and is brought to life for the first time from a sketch that the designer considered for the Tiffany Diamond. BOTANICA also sells Jean Schlumberger's Flowers and Leaves and Feuillage necklaces, in addition to the Fleurage bracelet. The use of major Tiffany & Co. "heritage gemstones," such as tanzanite, and their dramatic dimensionality distinguish these remarkable works.
BOTANICA will be unveiled in three waves by Tiffany & Co., starting in the spring in the United States, then in the summer in London, and finally in the fall in China. Over 85 outstanding Tiffany & Co. High Jewelry creations will launch in the spring season.
Photography by: Courtesy Tiffany & Co.
