This dark blue-purple gemstone is a beautiful choice for high jewellery creations. Including many that took center stage during High Fashion Week at Place Vendôme. Let's explore its depths with a selection of favourite tanzanite creations and many other joisite treasures.
The gemstone tanzanite is a relatively new find for the world of gemology. It was discovered in 1967 in the hills of Merelani in northern Tanzania, which remains to this day the only source of tanzanite in the world. Named by Tiffany & Co. after its homeland, this variety of joysite is available in deep violet and blue,. But with the darker blue being the rarest and therefore the most valuable. Although relatively new to the industry, it's no surprise that this stone was one of the stars of this year's Paris Fashion Week, with our top picks featured below...
Top: Tiffany & Co. bracelet in gold, diamonds and tanzanite. From Blue Book 2023: Out of the Blue from the fine jewellery collection
Boucheron Once in a Blue Moon Suite
This year's Carte Blanche collection by Boucheron creative director Claire Choisne is entitled More is More. But it celebrates the ultimate need for colour, action and life after the long locks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps the most tradition-focused line in the collection is the high jewellery line Once in a Blue Moon. It consists of the infamous Question Mark necklace that was born in the Boucheron brand in 1879. As well as the Parfum ring, inspired by the house's longstanding dialogue between the art of high jewellery and perfume.
The central elements of both pieces are unique tanzanite gemstones. The necklace features a particularly rare 5.28 carat cushion-shaped tanzanite set between diamonds and white gold. The ring even has a unique 33.15 carat cabochon.
Louis Vuitton Transformable Bones necklace
In her latest high jewellery collection, Deep Time, Louis Vuitton creative director Francesca Amfitheatrof takes us back to the origins and creation of the universe. So she answers the big “why” behind the existence of planet Earth through exceptionally unique pieces. In her Bones high jewellery range, Amfitheatrof uses tanzanite to illustrate the wondrous evolution of the Earth's geology. This also links its development to life and form.
The snail-style statement necklace is the most complex necklace ever made in Louis Vuitton's history. It features a total of 91.74 carats of tanzanite-cut emerald in white gold and platinum. The two matching bracelets have the same fluidity, with one 19.64-carat emerald-cut tanzanite in one and five 22.40-carat emerald-cut tanzanites in the other.
Lydia Courteille Sahara ring
The A Natalie High Jewellery collection by the famous French jewellery designer and antique jewellery specialist Lydia Courteille. It is a collaboration with her friend and fellow artist Natalie Shau. Who, for more than 18 years, has been creating wonderful images. Inspired by each of Courteille's fine jewellery collections.
The A Natalie collection is unique. As the entire repertoire of jewellery is limited to ten unique cocktail rings, each one different from the other. Each piece of jewellery is decorated with a micro enamel painting of Shau surrounded by gemstones. The Caravan ring is named after a collection inspired by Courteille's journey to Tassili, Algeria. But there the jeweler was moved by the indigo blue of the clothes and turbans worn by Touareg men in the Sahara desert. To bring this vibrant colour to the jewellery, Courteille opted for a selection of seven tanzanites, weighing a total of 14.18 carats, set at intervals with yellow sapphires.
Mikimoto School of Fish Swimming Elegantly in the Sea Suite
Mikimoto's latest fine jewellery collection, Praise to the Sea, is also an ode to the brand's founding gemstone, the pearl. As well as to the deep blue waters from which it was born.
The Fish Swimming Elegantly in the Sea collection comes to life. With interwoven rows of pearls and blue-dark green gemstones, mostly tanzanite, reminiscent of a school of fish swimming in a seascape. Elsewhere, the Murex brooch brings to our attention this mysterious and unknown tropical sea snail. There is a textural difference between the exterior of the structure and the interior. The shell is sculpted with diamonds, while the interior is soft and flowing with sapphires and a striking 15.40 carat tanzanite cabochon.
Pomellato earrings Giardini Verticali
Each fine jewellery line in the Ode to Milan collection celebrates and praises the artistic, modern city of Milan. Giardini Verticali earrings celebrate the city's contemporary architecture. Creating precious renditions of the two buildings of the Bosco Verticale residential complex in the Porta Nuova area. Here, creative director Vincenzo Castaldo chose to create a waterfall of 52 magnetic green tourmalines combined with six violet-blue tanzanites to recreate the green foliage growing on the exterior of the two buildings, as well as the blue windows that catch the sunlight during the day.
But this journey into Milan's contemporary cityscape continues in the Nudo Triennale ring. Featuring a 3-carat princess-cut diamond and a vivid purple-blue tanzanite. Finally, the Castello earrings and matching ring, with a 16-carat diamond-cut sugarloaf-shaped tanzanite. They evoke the neo-medieval architecture of Milan's old town.
Tiffany & Co. Medusa brooch Out of the Blue
In her first Blue Book collection for Tiffany & Co, Head of Artistic Direction for Jewellery and Fine Jewellery Nathalie Verdeille has chosen to honour iconic designer Jean Schlumberger's love of the sea and all its creatures. The company chose to release the collection in two stages, the first of which occurred this summer. One of our absolute favorite designs from the Blue Book summer release is undoubtedly the Jellyfish brooch. It mimics the shape, movement and milky tones of this mystical creature. So to create the dome of the animal's head, Verdeille placed 77 tanzanite cabochons, totalling over 17 carats. But interspersed with luminous moonstones and diamonds. So to represent the way water interacts with her opalescent body.
The tanzanite gemstone may have been discovered later. But famous jewellers are wasting no time in creating exquisite luxury creations from it.
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