artier Libre questions form and design, and challenges expertise and savoir-faire in a constant pursuit of innovation. These creative explorations are part of the long-standing Cartier tradition of richly inspired collections from an insatiable and powerful curiosity. Creations of pure forms, they defy limits and play with new perspectives of lines, volumes, contrasts and mobility.
Watchmaking, jewellery, accessories: all of the Maison’s realms of expression are electrified, re-explored and questioned. A creative, cultured mix, for collections free to express their style and spirit.
With a single twist, the spirit of things shifts and astonishes. Beauty is viewed with the lightness of a sidestep: a ring flows freely like locks of hair and a watch creates bubbles with time, while a shower of golden marbles bursts into the air like laughter.
Innovative designs, bright colours, contrasts, unexpected volumes, soft lines or material effects: the creative process is amplified in every sense to combine nature and design, aesthetics and surprise, lightness and preciousness.
A new kind of tension - a joyful breath that evaporates mid-air in a burst of splendour.
Rings spiked with colourful pendants that sparkle with the slightest movement, for a precious effect. Studded with diamonds and onyx, the strands create a chromatic harmony that is precious to Cartier: black, green and white, which has been present in the Maison’s creations since the beginning of the 20th century.
The melon cut, with its ribbed grooves and engraved volume, is a motif in its own right. Amplified and irresistible, it draws the eye to the bracelet, necklace and rings it adorns. The transparency of the centre gemstone, amethyst or chrysoprase, brings sensuality and flavour, while the gold honours preciousness. Cartier sets them in a ball-set pistil, with a diamond in the centre. Touches of onyx alternated with pavé gold claws add rhythm to the relief.
This motif is mounted on the long necklace on a twisted sliding chain, making it a pleasure to adjust.
The flamboyant all-gold torque bracelet combines amethyst and diamonds with a grooved bezel of alternating diamonds and onyx. These creations pay tribute to the style of Jeanne Toussaint and her penchant for yellow gold worked in volume.
Dazzling jewels, poised between order and disorder, where the regularity of geometric constructions is disrupted by an organic invasion of gold beads.
The play of forces and the clash of materials unite two facets of Cartier grammar: the P rigour of regular architecture on one hand, and the organic chaos of a great wave of beads on the other.
A fully articulated watch whose architectural dial emerges in a proliferation of tiny bubbles: blue and white opals, rubellite, blue chalcedony, tanzanite or set platinum. In the centre, a tiny dial, illuminated by sapphire hour-markers, contrasts the random nature of its snow-setting with the architecture of the textured rose gold bezel and bracelet.
Inspired by the Coussin watch, a ring and a bracelet feature a pavé setting that rebounds beneath our fingers. These two unique pieces feature a selection of rare sapphires in a soft cameo of pastel shades. These jewels, combining firmness and flexibility, surprise and dazzle with their sensuality. The singular signature of an original creative gesture, signed Cartier.
Based on the classic shape of the tête-à-tête bracelet, Cartier has created a hybrid watch that transposes the animal theme into an abstract form built around a surprising chimera.
This fantastic apparition unites two signature chromatic universes. On one hand, red and green, a vivid harmony of coral and emerald. On the other, blue and green, echoing Louis Cartier’s ‘peacock décor’, which combines silvered obsidian, chalcedony, chrysoprase and amethyst cabochons.
A tiny snow-set dial is set into the coral-side end, surrounded by a crown of emerald cabochons. The watch slips onto the wrist with a twist, adding the mystery of its inspiration to the game of manipulation.
A reference to the world of jewellery, the melon cut is the central motif of this jewellery box. It takes the form of a chrysoprase, chosen for the voluptuous, irresistible character of its translucent material. Set in the centre of an onyx pyramid, the stone is encircled by a black wood marquetry crown. Its volume appears to diffract into a multitude of beams, created in wood marquetry and surrounded by a line of gold-finish metal.
Dyed in successive sections, both the Tulipier and Sycamore wood come in four shades of blue. Between the centre stone and the wood, the colour palette pays homage to a signature colour combination of the Maison: blue and green, known as Louis Cartier’s ‘peacock décor’.
At each corner and on the front of the case, delicate onyx pyramids are set with clous de Paris - another Cartier signature. A gold-coloured thread highlights the edge of the box like a precious frame. The interior compartments have been designed to hold rings, earrings or necklaces. A numbered limited edition of 10 pieces.
