TRUE BLUE

The intense blue of lapis lazuli is one of the new year’s sizzling shades. Charlene Co highlights some spectacular pieces that showcase the stone’s hue

Colour authority Pantone has spoken: lapis blue is among the year’s hottest hues. Finally, the often-overlooked lapis lazuli—with its gorgeous deep blue and golden pyrite inclusions—has its time to shine. Chaumet uses this opaque stone beautifully in its water-inspired high jewellery collection Lumières d’Eau, which presents water in its various states—from pounding waves to delicate dripping icicles. The Lumières d’Eau long necklace, in particular, is quite the stunner. Chaumet’s craftsmen have set it with diamonds, sapphires, spinel, tanzanite and cascading lapis lazuli beads. Van Cleef & Arpels, meanwhile, renders a few pieces for its 60-piece clip collection, L’Arche de Noé, in lapis lazuli. One, the perroquets clip, features carefully cut lapis lazuli and turquoise as feathers. Lapis lazuli is also used to make the body of the L’Arche de Noé…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2017

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