This June Piaget unveiled the 2025 High Jewellery collection in the Extraleganza series. The ‘Shapes of Extraleganza’ is the most daring and profound interpretation of the Maison’s heritage to date. Now Piaget presents exceptional unique pieces, in collaboration with Nelly Saunier.
Following last year’s ‘Essence of Extraleganza’, the ‘Shapes of Extraleganza’ is the second in a trilogy of collections exploring Piaget’s creative roots in the 1960s and 70s. The new high jewellery collection pays homage to the Maison’s celebrated collaborations with Salvador Dali, American-French artist Arman or famous collectors like Andy Warhol.
As an exclusive artisan creation, Piaget just presented a new transformable jewellery, inspired by the iconic Yves Piaget Rose.
After the ‘Piaget Sunlight Escape’, the ‘Sunny side of Life’ or the ‘Secrets and Lights’ high-jewellery collections, Piaget has once again cooperated with Nelly Saunier, a ‘feather marquetry’ artist. Nelly adorns various haute-couture and haute joaillerie and haute horlogerie pieces with feathers, like Van Cleef & Arpels or Bvlgari. She was honoured by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller with the Liliane Bettencourt Prize, which rewards expertise, creativity and innovation in the crafts and was given the title Maître d’Art (awarded for life by the French Ministry of Culture to distinguished professionals from the arts and crafts).
Nelly Saunier’s work in plumasserie requires not only extreme patience, dedication and artisan skills but also deep understanding of the feathers’ characteristics, colour’s and textures. In her Paris atelier, she washes, prepares, and hand-selects each feather, shaping them with poetic precision. Her artistic vision explores the feather’s natural elegance and its power to express something raw and emotional – ‘Birds are born with their elegance,’ she says, ‘there is no deception in their appearance. Every feather carries its own emotion.’
This new asymmetrical cuff reinterprets the beautiful Yves Piaget Rose in a breathtaking and unexpected medium: feathers. The Yves Piaget Rose was originally a winning rose of the International Rose Competition in 1982, created by the rose breeder Meilland and named after Yves Piaget. It is an intense pink, peony-like, hybrid rose, with frilled and serrated edges, and a rich fragrance. At the heart of the new jewel is a vibrant Yves Piaget Rose, sculpted from natural goose feathers created by her. With her art, she brings an ethereal, tactile quality to the Rose, which appears to bloom directly from the wrist.
The petals shimmer with 261 diamonds, each snow-set to create a radiant, dewy sparkle – an ultimate tribute to light and texture. At the center of the creation lies a rare and captivating spinel from Tanzania, with a vivid reddish-pink hue.
A new, innovative transformability system – designed by Piaget’s master jewellers – allows the wearer to remove the rose from the bracelet and wear it as a brooch, seamlessly adapting the piece from statement to day-to-day elegance.
Source: press release. Photo credits: Piaget.
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