“All things seem possible in May.” Edwin Way Teale, the character author and photographer, perfectly captured our eternally sanguine, heart-fluttering love affair with spring.
So, too, does a recent garden of gleaming delights from French luxury jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels.
The maison has introduced 4 recent jewels to its Lucky Spring collection for 2023, including two delicate pendants, a bracelet and a captivating between-the-finger ring.
With motifs of pretty plum blossoms and daring ladybugs, the pieces are encircled in sparkling rose gold, a logo of endurance following a protracted winter.
“Since its origins, Van Cleef & Arpels has drawn inspiration from the vitality of wildlife,” Nicolas Bos, the company’s president and CEO, tells Alexa. “Spring is a season the maison holds dear. With the Lucky Spring collection, we rejoice this era of renewal and express the maison’s poetic world through a vibrant number of stones.”
Indeed, the road’s floral elements are hewn from subtly iridescent mother-of-pearl and positive gold pistils. Meanwhile, ladybugs — one with wings flung open because it takes flight from a pendant and the opposite perched upon a hoop with wings closed, gazing upon two blooms — are crafted from fiery red-orange carnelian and lustrous black onyx, playfully studded with rose-gold dots.
Photo by Brian Klutch; Prop Stylist: Miami Katoh. Styled by Anahita Moussavian
These recent pieces expand the Lucky Spring range, originally launched in 2021, in addition to two touchstones for Van Cleef & Arpels: nature and luck.
The ladybug, particularly, is emerging as a fascinating recent emblem for the storied house, alongside flowers, garden fairies and four-leaf clovers.
The gathering makes a sublime companion to VCA’s Two Butterfly line (including a stunning lapis and diamond between-the-finger ring, seen above), which similarly celebrates joyful garden creatures — and the nice fortune they might bring to each recent blossoms and their wearers.
Lucky us.
