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Atelier Leseine of Mountain View, California unveiled the new Perle Captive collection by designer Nathalie Leseine. Perle Captive incorporates lustrous hand-selected Tahitian cultured pearls, set in fine gold and accented by diamonds. With this collection, Leseine pays homage to the geometric angles of the Eiffel Tower in her native Paris . Leseine’s love for classic forms from France, the U.S., the South Pacific and Asia was the base of inspiration for the new pieces as she weaves characteristic elements from the cultures into contemporary form with a particular focus on detail. For the Perle Captive pearl and diamond ring, pictured, the designer used a single round Tahitian black pearl captured with a multifaceted polyhedron cage with diamond pave, rising from a gracefully arching setting in gold and palladium. The set of earrings encases a pearl within multifaceted polyhedrons with each cage suspended from a fall of links and all are accented with delicate diamond pavé.
Principal designer Geoffrey Good said, "In collaborating with Atelier Leseine for the Perle Captive collection, I was intrigued by the challenge of presenting pearls, so intrinsically feminine with their layers and relative softness, in an unusual manner. The term 'unusual' refers to both a desire to avoid the obvious and overused approaches found in most pearl jewelry, and to somehow integrate such an organic material with the structural minimalism I so favor. I'm very happy with the result."
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