Art Project: Jewelled Garden of Delights
Photographer and Set Designer – Ksenia Usacheva @ksenia_visual_ // Jewelry Stylist – Katerina Perez
Lorenz Baumer Métamorphose brooch with emeralds, tsavorite garnets, sapphires, spinels, tanzanites, chrysoprases, tourmalines and diamonds in white gold
Vhernier Bruco caterpillar brooches in 18k white gold, white mother of pearl, rock crystal and diamonds and onyx, rock crystal and diamonds
Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Katerina Perez is surrounded by nature-inspired high jewellery including the Sillam Tulip brooch with emeralds, pink sapphires and diamonds and the Sillam dragonfly brooch, worn as a hair ornament
Chaumet Abeille brooch in white gold set with one aquamarine of 3.12 carats, pink tourmaline and brilliant-cut diamonds (right) and a second Abeille brooch in white gold set with one pear-shaped rhodolite garnet, multi-coloured gemstones and brilliant-cut diamonds
Lydia Courteille Phasme ring with carved jade of 36.7 carats, peridot, emeralds and tsavorites in 18k gold and the Butterfly brooch with rainbow chrysocolla, yellow beryl, garnet, sapphires, tsavorites and fire opal in 18k gold
The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes. Malcolm de Chazal
Katerina wears a selection of nature-inspired high jewels by Chaumet, Vhernier, Lorenz Baumer and Lydia Courteille
Lydia Courteille Nuevo Mundo cuff bracelet in the shape of two parrots surrounding a 196.40 carat aquamarine, plus sapphires, rubies, tsavorites and brown diamonds in 18k gold
Sillam dragonfly brooch set en tremblant with emeralds and diamonds in platinum
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Katerina Perez is a jewellery insider, journalist and brand consultant with more than 15 years’ experience in the jewellery sector. Paris-based, Katerina has worked as a freelance journalist and content editor since 2011, writing articles for international publications. To share her jewellery knowledge and expertise, Katerina founded this website and launched her @katerina_perez Instagram in 2013.
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