The Curiosity Cabinet

Curiosity cabinets are seen as the ancestor's of today's museums. During the European Renaissance, aristocrats and enlightened amateurs would often collect and display rare and unusual, sometimes bizarre 'curios' with a taste for the eclectic and unique. They assembled a mixed selection of antiquities, stuffed animals, skeletons, seashells, works of art and other precious pieces.

Today the House of Boucheron boasts a tribute to the curiosity cabinet in the form of a fine jewellery collection. Jewellery conoisseurs are not unlike yesterday's curiosity cabinet collector: they enjoy rarity, exclusiveness, and creativity.

Boucheron: The iconic first jeweller of the Place Vendôme

Here are my 3 favourite pieces...

Masy the Chameleon - truly a natural phenomenon - it is the only animal endowed with the extraordinary faculty to change colours thanks to specific cells in its skin. This piece embodies a range of the most exquisite coloured gems including tsavorites, blue, pink, and yellow sapphires & rubies.

Masy

Cypris - the Swan - is so closely linked with beauty, elegance and majesty that it has always adorned the water features of European princely homes, while the peacock would grace Oriental gardens.
Did you know Swans mate for life - how beautiful is that? Couples form almost a year before having offspring, and this is referred to as the Swans' engagement. Then they go off together to find a place to raise their family. I had no idea they were so romantic...

Cypris

Boucheron's Swan was poetically named Cypris because it was the Cyprian name of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, pleasures and beauty.  According to Greek mythology she travels on a white swan.
This piece evokes the nobility of the bird itself as well as the ballerina dancing to Tchaikovsky's Swan lake. When worn together they look truly breathtaking. It is almost animated to reality with the way it wraps around the finger.

Natalie Portman in the Black Swan

Explore the rest of the collection and find your favourite here.