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Crystal and diamond jewelry from Cartier recalls the house’s inventive 1930s glamour.
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ROCK OF AGES
During the 1930s, Louis Cartier com-bined diamonds and slices of carved rock crystal in a striking set of geometric cuffs that was purchased by the actress Gloria Swanson. “Cartier used crystal for the sake of volume,” explains Pierre Rainero, the house’s image, style and heri- tage director, who returned to the talis-manic minerals for Cartier’s Magnitude High Jewelry collec-tion. The necklace and earrings shown here fuse diamonds and rutilated quartz crys-tal, with its threads of gold-colored inclu-sions, imparting an organic sensibility to the precious jewels in a way that plays with scale, texture and light. For details see Sources, page 106. —Jill Newman
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOANNA MCCLURE FASHION EDITOR ALEXANDER FISHER PROP STYLIST GRACE HARTNETT