Odeon Collection

Van Cleef & Arpels and the Art of Transformability

Van Cleef & Arpels spent a century engineering jewels that could become several — the Zip, the Passe-Partout, and the sautoirs of the 1970s among them.

JAR

There is no sign on the door at 7 Place Vendôme, and that has always been the point. Joel Arthur Rosenthal built the most private, most exclusive name in jewelry — the true connoisseur's jeweler.

David Webb

He said women were tired of jewelry that looked like jewelry — then made zebra rings and gold frogs that Elizabeth Taylor couldn't resist

Belle Epoque

Platinum was once too hard to shape into anything delicate — until Cartier's engineers studied the springs of railway sleeping cars and found their answer. What followed was a twenty-year run of di...

Art Nouveau

For Art Nouveau's jewelers, the dragonfly outranked the diamond. Twenty years of proving that craft, not carat weight, was where the real value lived.

Paris Fashion Week's Other Runway: The Jewelry

The clothes get the headlines. The jewelry, unveiled quietly on Place Vendôme the same week, gets the client — and the provenance.