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High jewelry fireworks at Piaget and Fendi

High jewelry fireworks at Piaget and Fendi

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Parisian houses aren't the only thing surrounding Place Vendôme. This week, two institutions, one Swiss, the other Italian, have worthily contributed their stone to the edifice.

" In the seventies, that's when Piaget was at its most vibrant with color! " enthuses a colleague in front of the ornaments placed on the fireplace in the apartment overlooking the Vendôme column. Like last year, the house is dedicating its high jewelry collection Shapes of Extraleganza to the hedonistic decades of the 1960s and 1970s. During this golden age, Yves Piaget, the founder's grandson, pulled lighters, cigar cutters, and watches, each crazier than the last, from his sleeve, such as the television-shaped model commissioned by Andy Warhol, or the golden Dali co-designed with Salvador Dali. The energy of the Piaget Society's inner circle has not disappeared, according to Stéphanie Sivrière, the current artistic director, who, in 51 modern pieces - albeit imbued with the past - reconnects with the profusion of colors, the rounded and psychedelic designs of pop art and op art, the geometry of the sensual lines of Mondrian's dress by Yves Saint Laurent in…

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