HIGH JEWELRY - Graff's Field of Butterflies
No necklaces, no earrings, no extravagant sets. For its new high jewelry collection, Graff has chosen to focus on a single item, the brooch, which it presents in variations of a single motif, its iconic butterfly.
Twelve pieces are gathered under the title Artistry in Motion. Emblem of the House since 1975, the Graff butterfly is encapsulated in a deceptively simple silhouette: two pear-shaped stones, two marquise-shaped stones. This minimalism becomes a canvas here, where each brooch summons history, art, stones and gold. The lines of emeralds and diamonds in Tamara evoke the sunray motifs of Art Deco; the gradient of emeralds, tourmalines and sapphires in Eva is conceived in the manner of a Monet garden; Marina invokes the Op Art of the 1960s, the decade of Graff's birth; and then there is Athea , which translates the pointillist movement through the electric blue of Paraíba tourmalines and the brilliance of diamonds. /public-objects/ba7785c0-563c-4af5-89c3-670d6051f1ae-ce8bf6dc-3242-4646-a22f-57017e6f5f57-2.webp Image sélectionnée The collection also delves into the maison 's archives. Thus, Freya is reborn from an antique dragonfly brooch with wings sprinkled with yellow diamonds. As for the sculptural Lina , it brings together square-cut pink sapphires in invisible settings and brilliant-cut white diamonds, drawing inspiration from patterns of Graff's past creations. All are entirely handcrafted in the London workshops. Far from being static, each brooch mounted on a jabot pin is said to be "trembling", so that the butterfly quivers at the slightest movement, as if ready to take flight. And because metamorphosis is in the very nature of this delicate creature, the piece transforms: a brooch one day, a pendant the next, extended at the tip of the pin by a second miniature butterfly. Entrusting 12 digital works to the artist Rose Pilkington to accompany the launch, Graff comes full circle: the butterfly, a symbol of transformation, is far from done with its metamorphosis. Half a century after its first appearance, it remains the most free of signatures.