Van Cleef & Arpels Sous les Étoiles high jewellery collection revealed
Inspired by the magnificence of the night sky, Van Cleef & Arpels 2021 high jewellery invites us to dream with the stars
10 February 2021
by
MARIA DOULTON
Like a rare comet sighting, the Van Cleef & Arpels
Sous les Étoiles, heavenly dreams high jewellery is worth the wait. The 150 one-of-a-kind jewels are inspired by the mystery of the cosmos that has transfixed astronomers and awed stargazers throughout history.
In their approach, the designers at Van Cleef & Arpels looked at different interpretations of the night sky. The team was inspired by texts are diverse as classical Greek writings, to the early C17th work of Johannes Kepler ‘Lunar Astronomy’ and Camille Flammarion’s 1880 Astronomie Populaire with its quaint views on the cosmos to the mind-blowing images captured by NASA. The mastery of Van Cleef & Arpels lies in the exquisite sensitivity expressed in each jewel that so vividly captu