Clément Souillart
Jewelry Designer
Architecture Project
The necklace is based on the architecture of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque of Abu Dhabi, 20th largest mosque in the world, paying tribute to its sponsor, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan being the first president of the United Arab Emirates. It is through its chandelier and its handcrafted rugs, the largest in the world, that this necklace was born. It is also through its architecture, its volumes and its golden arabesques that the exuberance and the mother-of-pearl flower patterns appeared depicting a certain movement on the structure of the necklace. Each details takes up the identity of this monument, referring to the DNA of the different parts of the building.
It is after the study of the monument, its architecture and its arrangements that the project was dedicated to a High Jewelry necklace combining mother-of-pearl sculpture to create volumetric flowers, gold work to create vines as well as a mesh arranged in two bands falling and composition with the aim of simulating a flight of mother-of-pearl petals beyond the architecture of the gold and diamond jewel.
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Below is the gouache of the final jewel.
