Fine Diamond and Platinum Brooch by Lacloche Frères, Paris, c. 1915

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Fine Diamond and Platinum Brooch by Lacloche Frères, Paris, c. 1915

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Among the great jewellery houses that supplied crowned heads as well as the elegant socialites of the metropolises at the beginning of the 20th century was one whose name and creations had been forgotten for decades: Lacloche Frères. The Lacloche brothers ran branches at the great addresses of the jewelry world, one on Rue de la Paix in Paris, the other in London's New Bond Street, and shared walk-in customers with Cartier. Founded in 1875, the house produced amazingly innovative and luxurious jewellery in the 1920s, but fell into oblivion during the 20th century. Only recently has the jewellery world rediscovered the name Lacloche and its refined creations. This large brooch is a signed work by Lacloche and embodies the refined taste of the 1910s. As early as 1912, it was said of the jewels of the season that fashion was "leaning towards wonderful designs in diamond lace, which require so much skill and work that pieces of jewellery of this kind, despite smaller stones, cost no less than at that time, when solid diamonds were used and little attention was paid to the question of setting." This also applies to our brooch. Sparkling diamonds in old cuts are set in an astonishingly fine network of platinum bars arranged around three circular elements. Frames of shimmering pavé-set diamond roses are spun around them. Despite its size, the design appears ethereal and light: the solid platinum has been transformed by hand into the finest lace made of light in dozens of hours of concentrated work. The finest details of the brooch still amaze us today. The pin was renewed a little later in the USA - probably an elegant lady from overseas had also succumbed to the refined creations she had admired in shop windows in London or Paris. See also Laurence Mouillefarine/Véronique Ristelhueber: Lacloche Joailliers (Paris 2024), pp. 76-81 on other lace-inspired lacloche pieces of the 1910s.

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