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Blue-Pink Ring Stands Out at Biennale Paris
Sep 13, 2017 9:24 AM
By David Brough
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RAPAPORT... One-of-a-kind
diamond jewelry masterpieces, including an extraordinary blue-and-pink diamond
ring from Moussaieff Jewellers, were on show this week at the Biennale luxury
fair in Paris.
The Biennale Paris, taking place at the Grand Palais until September 17, presents
extremely rare luxury pieces, including fine jewelry, art and items for the
home, to connoisseur collectors.
A standout piece from Moussaieff Jewellers, exhibiting for the first time
at the Biennale, was a ring setting a marquise-cut 4.34-carat fancy vivid blue
diamond alongside a marquise-cut, 6.54-carat, fancy intense pink, internally flawless diamond (pictured). Another showstopper from Moussaieff was a necklace featuring a heart-shaped, 61.62-carat white diamond, as well as pink diamonds.
“We decided to exhibit at the Biennale because Paris is an important
market and now, more than ever, has enormous potential,” designer and owner Alisa
Moussaieff, who has collected rare colored diamonds over decades, told Rapaport
News. “We have had a tremendous response so far from connoisseurs from many
different countries.”
Nirav Modi presented a diamond-jewelry suite incorporating extremely rare
rubies from mines in the Mogok region of Myanmar, also known as Burma, totaling
more than 47 carats that took years to source.
The pigeon-blood and
near pigeon-blood Mogok rubies are cradled by Mughal-cut diamonds in a classic
silhouette. Mughal-cut diamonds, a Nirav Modi creation, use minimal metal, so
fine that the culets of the diamonds are visible. The culet is the bottom tip
of the diamond.
New York-based Chinese-American designer Anna Hu
presented a diamond necklace inspired by the Water Lilies painted by French impressionist Claude Monet, including pink sapphires creating the impression of
flower petals.
“Different diamonds with different cuts show the best reflection of
light,” said Gina Wu, business operations manager of Anna Hu Haute
Joaillerie.
Boghossian’s stand included antique fine jewelry pieces from the
Boghossian Foundation Collection, and presented descriptions of some of the
techniques of craftsmanship for which the brand is known.
These
include the art of inlay, and a technique for allowing jewelry to be set with
diamonds on four sides, enabling precious stones to touch each other on a
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Tags:
Anna Hu, Anna Hu Haute Joaillerie, Biennale Paris, Boghossian Foundation Collection, Burma, David Brough, diamond jewelry, Gina Wu, Grand Palais, Jewelry, Mogok, Moussaieff, Moussaieff Jewellers, Mughal, Myanmar, new york, Nirav Modi
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