Recently, the high-quality French jewelry brand Van Cleef & Arpels presented a selection of antique and contemporary works at the 2019 The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) held in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Among the works on display this time, the Heritage collection gathers a number of antique jewelry pieces created by Van Cleef & Arpels between the 1920s and 1990s, reflecting the evolution of aesthetics and the brand's style that has been refined through the times. A Danseuse paillettes ballerina brooch created in 1955 uses the "paillettes" motif first launched by the brand in 1936 to interpret the ballerina figure that has been a Van Cleef & Arpels classic since 1940. A 1965 necklace featuring amethyst and yellow corundum has a detachable pendant that can be used as a brooch. It uses contrasting colored gems to interpret an exotic floral design, reflecting the aesthetics and the trend of detachable jewelry at that time.
Among the new contemporary works, the two cushion-cut Madagascar sapphires set in the Joyaux de Madagascar necklace weigh 13.78 carats and 14.57 carats respectively, and both can be detached to be worn as drop earrings, demonstrating the brand's emphasis on gemstones and flexible design features. The Zip Antique Pastilles zip necklace is decorated with half-cut, mirror-polished yellow gold sequins on the brick-shaped chain-like zip structure, and reinterprets this classic convertible jewelry with a retro charm of the 1930s.