Coloratura - Franois Chaille

Consecrating Cartier's new collection of high jewelry
and precious objects, this volume, with its one hundred
original and innovative pieces, is a celebration of an
integral aspect of the iconic brand: color. Brimming
both with striking contrasts and
more delicate tones,
the jeweler's palette positions itself in the midst of an
intimate conversation between the art world and reality
in all of its cultural diversity, thus allowing for the jeweler
to expand his or her creative horizons unhindered.
Through the exploration of continents and seasons, the
juxtaposition of tradition with modernity, and the play
on connotations associated both with stones and other
more noble materials, Cartier continues to follow in the
footsteps paved by its founding brothers, and to create
breath-taking and unique pieces.


All the world revels in color; and since high jewelry
and the notion of celebration are inextricably linked,
Cartier's collection, with its astonishing rainbow-like
palette, as immortalized in this volume, provides us with
a new ode to joy, an ode to life in all its glory.