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Cartier in Motion

Start Date 25 May 2017
End Date 28 July 2017
Venue Design Museum
Location London, U.K.
Curator Lord Norman Foster
Gallery view of the exhibition, with pink display cases showcasing Van Cleef & Arpels jewellery

Featuring almost a hundred creations from Van Cleef & Arpels’ patrimonial collection, numerous archive documents and lender masterpieces, this exhibition illustrates the French High Jewelry Maison’s constant quest to impart movement into precious materials.

Van Cleef & Arpels has constantly blended the excellence of its High Jewellery savoir-faire with great delicacy of vision in order to imbue the most precious materials with lightness and dynamism. Notable for their unique designs, their three-dimensional volume and their composition, the creations showcased stand out as manifestos of the Art of Movement.

Amongst a selection of pieces from the Maison’s patrimonial collection, archives documents and private collector’s creations, this exhibition draws visitors into a dreamlike world of movement and harmony.

This artistic journey is divided into four themes: Nature Alive, Dance, Elegance and Abstract Movements. Each highlights a facet of motion explored by Van Cleef & Arpels since its foundation in 1906.