Holidaying in the glamorous French Riviera, hosting cocktail parties on a yacht, having a candlelight dinner on a private island or chilling out with friends and family at a beachside luxury resort: whatever be the choice of your vacabreak this summer, we’d like to throw in some gemstones. This is a great way to add sparkle to your wardrobe.
Summers are bright and there’s a riot of colors with flowers blooming all around. We do have a lovely selection of bright cocktail rings for you. But first, we’ll give you the lowdown on soft-hued precious gemstones inspired by the nature, ocean, skies and the fluffy clouds accented with a nice pop of color borrowed from nature’s gorgeous palette.
Embrace the warmth of summer with soft sensuous necklaces. Cartier has a penchant for making you fall in love with their creations. The elegant Garance necklace crafted in platinum is set with two cushion-shaped Mozambican rubies, 26 round and oval shaped Burmese rubies accented with brilliant-cut diamonds. The Riviera and its ever-changing color palette prompted Cartier to design the Étourdissant Cartier high jewelry collection.
The Geneva-based luxury house Boghossian spring a surprising contrast of colors by juxtaposing a fine sprinkling of astounding Paraiba tourmalines with a sea of pink conch pearls and corals. This beautiful necklace would be a wonderful addition to your jewellery box. Chaumet’s poetic composition is crafted in pink gold, and features pink sapphires, rhodolite garnets, pink and red tourmalines and rubies. The focal point of the Hortensia high jewelry necklace is a 25.68carat cabochon-cut pear shaped red tourmaline drop.
Nuun’s exotic yellow gold, green lacquer Arome necklace features 2,982 tiny rubies on the hand-painted leave motifs that wrap gracefully around the neck. Chopard, Graff, Faberge, Piaget, Van Cleef, Tiffany high jewelry sparklers are absolute must-haves. Noted independent jewelers such as Martin Katz, Nuun, Kirtilals too have fascinating necklaces that are worth checking out.
Smitha Sadanandan
