Re: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's Emerald Necklace Archived Message
Posted by Arthur  on August 21, 2014, 3:49 pm, in reply to "Re: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's Emerald Necklace"
I agree with you that, among Camilla's three Saudi necklaces, the emerald one is probably the most easily wearable.
But I think the emerald necklace would be improved if some smaller diamond motifs were introduced between each emerald. In the necklace's current shape, the emeralds are too close to one another, too concentrated.
You have perfectly described the style of the sapphire necklace, and the ruby one looks more like a breast plate rather than like a necklace...  A full transformation would be the best thing to do. But of course, it could be perceived as a rude and possibly offending gesture by those who presented the necklace...
--Previous Message--
:
: --Previous Message--
:
:
: We can also notice that Camilla wore the
: earrings of the demi-parure only once (the
: 2009 ‘Peter Pan’ performance), whereas she
: wore her personal modern chandelier diamond
: earrings on the two 2010 outings.
:
: As it is often the case with the jewels
: presented by the Middle-Eastern rulers, the
: stones seem to be of prime quality (in this
: case, beautiful rectangular emeralds of a
: fair size, and with a deep green colour,
: with hardly no inclusions visible), but
: unfortunately, they are set up in a modern,
: but very plain, uninspired design (the
: emeralds, each framed by a thin diamond
: border, are strung together, next to each
: other, without intermediary elements, for
: instance diamond spacers), which gives the
: jewel a rather heavy, disappointing look.
:
: I would dream that Camilla (discreetly)
: brings her Saudi jewels to Garrard or
: another skilled jeweller to dismantle the
: jewels and reuse the beautiful stones in new
: jewels of a more elegant and traditional
: design (for example, I think these
: rectangular emeralds would fit perfectly if
: they were integrated into a jewel with
: diamond Greek meander motives). Just my very
: own, personal, subjective and debatable
: opinion, of course.
:
:
:
: Thank you for these lovely, watermark-free
: pictures of The Duchess!
:
: These jewels (the emerald ones) are again an
: example for how taste differs. It's
: particularly this 'geometric', puristic
: setting which makes me fond of this
: necklace. I think it makes it wearable for
: grand as well as for less formal occasions.
: It's from all three (assumed) Saudi
: necklaces the most interesting... in my
: personal, subjective and also debatable
: opinion .
:
: On the other side, I don't care for the
: other two necklaces - the ruby is 'too much'
: and the sapphire one looks like 'unfinished'
: for me. The sapphire necklace has imo a very
: uninspired setting...'we have a chain of
: diamonds and oh, we could hang on some
: sapphires' .
:
: I share your wish of transformation for the
: latter two necklaces. The ruby necklace
: would have a true potential for a lovely
: choker with some fringes, the jeweller would
: not even have to change the whole design,
: but to 'tone it down' a bit would do
: wonders, wouldn't it? And the sapphire
: necklace...well, I'd suggest a complete
: resetting.
:
:
:
:
|
|
