It took Jeanson three years to curate it all. There are photographs from the likes of Dora Maar and Robert Mapplethorpe, sketches from Le Corbusier and paintings by Otto Dix. There is a Dior dress embroidered with a lily of the valley and an Yves Saint Laurent jacket embellished with ears of corn. The exhibit is wide-ranging and eclectic.
Showing people the beauty of plants through these masterpieces will, I hope, push them to pay attention to the wonder of our world.”Ī hydrangea-inspired brooch in gold, diamonds, and rubies (1807) by François-Régnault Nito. “We all want to save the world, of course, but you can’t have that goal unless you know what you are saving. “The most incredible moment as a botanist is when people truly see the astonishing structure and details of plants,” says Jeanson, “It is wondrous.”Īnd that, he says, is the point of the exhibition: to reconnect museum-goers with the intricacies and marvels of nature (with the helpful halo effect of lovely publicity for Chaumet).įor Jeanson, there is power in showcasing plant life through art. Végétal: L’École de la Beauté, opening at Les Beaux-Arts de Paris on Thursday, comprises about 400 paintings, textiles, photographs, items of furniture, sculptures and yes, pieces of jewellery, celebrating botany in all its forms.Ĭurated not by a gallerist but a botanist – Marc Jeanson, the botanical director of the Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech – it is a homage to the beauty of nature rather than an outright love affair with jewellery.įor Marc Jeanson, “the most important thing was to look at the way botany connected with jewellery, not the other way around”. The storied French jewellery house Chaumet, which never fails to remind the world it was once patronised by Empress Joséphine (and made her tiaras), has a new exhibition of its own, and it’s about plants. It was created by Chaumet jeweller Jean-Baptiste Fossin. Indeed, Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity is showing at the Dallas Museum of Art until September 18 and Vision and Virtuosity by Tiffany & Co is on at London’s Saatchi Gallery until August 19.īut in Paris, something slightly different is afoot.Ī diamond and emerald tiara from the 1830s that transforms into a brooch and hair ornaments. T’s hardly groundbreaking for a renowned jewellery house to showcase its wares to the public with a glittering museum exhibition.
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