A High Jewellery collection of stunning diversity, glittering with a thousand colourful facets... An imaginary voyage on which Cartier travels, embarking its vision, culture and expertise, driven by the vibrant desire of its boldness and curiosity...
A creative path drawn by the imagination, an inspirational journey that opens new stylistic horizons and reveals perspectives and connections, echoes between different worlds. A voyage like a serendipitous experience that opens a whole new vision...
If this collection was a continent...
It would be a territory at the boundary between dreams and reality, a heartland that inspires creation... Cartier travels, etching the contours of a land steeped in familiarity and fantasy, defined by its power and vitality, the sensuality of its colours and materials: Africa. An encounter that is beautiful, generous and fitting; one of those rare, dazzlingly open encounters that surprise and transform you forever. Cartier embraces the African palette to render its beauty, transfigured in a halo of sublime refinement.
If this collection was a city...
It would be a modern city buzzing with light, inhabited by a cosmopolitan crowd, happy and passionate... The city: unreal and cross-cultured, universal, governed by speed, tempo, momentum... a hub of modernity, a landmark in the Cartier repertory whose lines are merrily explored, its contours traced by Cartier in jewellery sets crafted in clean, sharp designs...
If this collection was a journey...
It would be a journey beyond time, an inspired route winding its way to Africa via India, China and the Orient... Change is abreast in these landscapes that Cartier knows and loves: the lines move, colour explodes, motion comes into play... Cartier - and the world is new...! Cartier, the passionate jeweller of contemporary beauty! A collection like an odyssey of creation...
Africa, land of jewels…
The cradle of all stones, the hearth of a primal energy beating at its core... The majesty of African evocations, sensual and sensorial, an essence which Cartier echoes in stones glowing with warmth and life - rutilated quartz, obsidian, golden topaz - with solar, earthy colours, with the beauty of traditional motifs, the power of animal inspirations... a world of creation whose force is imperceptibly adorned with Cartier’s savoir-faire.
The collection L’Odyssée de Cartier - Parcours d’un style harbours this touch of primal nature magnified by Cartier in a host of new forms, expertly transcribed into stone; an aesthetic is born, open and passionate.
Photo credit: Vincent Wulveryck © Cartier 2013
