Embracing impermanence

Boucheron's new high jewellery collection captures the fleeting beauty of nature from light to darkness

- Story by Kanokporn Chanasongkram

Light poetically fades into pitch blackness — the transition setting the tone of a new episode of Boucheron’s Carte Blanche collection.

Creative director Claire Choisne contemplated on the transient natural world, spurring how we can better protect it, as a key message from the imaginative Impermanence collection.

Choisne drew inspiration from ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, which aligns with the wabi-sabi philosophy in celebrating the beauty of simplicity, imperfection and impermanence.

The resulting collection illustrates the fleetingness of nature through six compositions and 28 pieces of high jewellery.

The narrative begins with the clarity of Composition N°6 featuring a tulip, a eucalyptus branch and a dragonfly in a borosilicate glass vase and concludes with the darkness of Composition N°1 comprising a poppy, sweet pea branches and a butterfly in a black sand vase.

Crafting the Impermanence collection involved cutting-edge materials and techniques that enhance the reputation of Boucheron, which dates back to 1858, as an avant-garde maison.