ART DECO DIAMOND BRACELET, BOUCHERON

Boucheron was the first jewellery house to settle on Place Vendôme in Paris, when its founder Frédéric Boucheron opened a boutique at number 26 in 1858. A brilliant jewellery designer, Boucheron remains famous for his enamelled jewels and objects of the Art Nouveau era as well as his delicate diamond-set jewels of the Belle Epoque. From the 1910s onwards, Boucheron anticipated that his new generation of clients were looking for a different style of jewels, to match their shorter hemlines and haircuts. Straight lines and baguette-cut diamonds replaced the neo-classical garland style of the previous years. This bracelet is an exquisite example of Boucheron’s talent, as he managed to adapt the floral design of the 19th century to the new taste for geometric pattern. A tiara by Boucheron displaying a very similar motif was exhibited at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris.