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 Jewellery of the year CHAUMET FRISSON COLLECTION |
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In 2004 the House of Chaumet – one of France’s oldest jewellery houses – celebrated its bi-centenary, a festivity that did not pass unnoticed in Russia. First, the date was marked by the opening of the legendary House’s first boutique in our country (on Stoleshnikov Pereulok). Secondly, for five days the State Historical Museum hosted a magnificent exhibition, entitled: Chaumet; the History of the Parisian Jewellers’ Art from Napoleon to the Present Day. Paradoxically, there are links here with Russian history, since the archives of the House of Chaumet contain information on almost six thousand Russian customers. On display at the exhibition were more than fifty articles of jewellery created by Chaumet. These included a luxury set made for the Empress Marie-Louise, a tie-pin custom made for Count Demidov, and a diadem created by Josef Chaum in 1919 for the Parma branch of the Bourbon dynasty. Also on show at the exhibition were articles from the House’s latest collection, which has been called the Frisson. The fine, delicate work of the House’s modern jewellers with white gold and scattered diamonds is quite the equal of the mastery displayed by their famous predecessors: the ring, the aigrette and the necklace from the Frisson Collection might easily have a place at the House of Chaumet’s next bi-centenary exhibition in two hundred years. |  |
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