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Boucheron's creative director Claire Choisne unveils Impermanence: 6 new multipurpose compositions aligned with the Japanese belief of wabi-sabi and themed around nature's transient beauty

Each year Boucheron creative director Claire Choisne is offered total freedom to push forward ideas of what high jewellery can be with the maison's Carte Blanche collection. Founded in 1858 by the enterprising Frédéric Boucheron, the maison treasures modernity and new perspectives. Its pieces can resemble art objets and are unlike anything you will see elsewhere on Paris' venerable Place Vendôme, where Boucheron remains the oldest jeweller still in operation. Boucheron Carte Blanche Impermanence No 2. Photo: Handout Advertisement Following on from January's Histoire de Style Untamed Nature collection , a nod to Frédéric Boucheron's takes on the natural world – an eternal source of inspiration – the latest chapter, Impermanence, contemplates nature on a more contemplative and more personal level. In six compositions, the collection takes inspiration from the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi in its acceptance of imperfection, and the Japanese art of flower arranging, ikebana, which translates as 'giving life to flowers'. In each, Choisne sought to capture the ephemeral element of nature with one-of-a-kind creations. Boucheron Carte Blanche Impermanence No 6. Photo: Handout 'In this new Carte Blanche collection, I've sought to capture the beauty of nature before it vanishes,' she says. 'These six compositions illustrate nature's fleetingness and fluidity, shifting from light to shadow to highlight how precious it is … the collection is an ode to that fragile instant that I wanted to crystallise for eternity.' Boucheron Carte Blanche Impermanence No 1. Photo: Handout The compositions, each capturing nature's idiosyncrasies – the delicacy of a tulip, the wildness of a thistle or the sense of an oak tree moving in a breeze – fuse ancient and modern techniques, some not previously realised in high jewellery. This traverses the breadth of craftsmanship, from glassmaking to plant-based resin rendered with 3D printing technology.