Es media tarde en la burbujeante Knightsbridge y en el renovado hotel Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park -donde la reina de Inglaterra y su hermana Margarita aprendieron a bailar o Margaret Thatcher sopló las velas de su 80 cumpleaños-, el trasiego de huéspedes y botones parece aún más frenético de lo habitual. El exclusivo hotel, resurgido (literalmente) de sus cenizas tras un devastador incendio en junio de 2018 y con la suite más cara de la ciudad, es el lugar escogido por la maison para albergar a los periodistas y a algunos de los mejores clientes de la casa, que tendrán la suerte de ver, y sólo ellos tocar, las piezas de Magnitude, la nueva colección capricho de Cartier. La intención es que la prensa no se cruce con los compradores, por eso abandonaremos la ciudad en el momento en que ellos hagan su aparición. La discreción se impone y algo de secretismo también. Adiós al momento show off de Lauren Hutton o María Félix, exhibiendo despreocupadas collares y brazaletes Cartier cuajados de piedras preciosas.
Ask for that mouth
The eagerness for privacy that obsess today many great fortunes is a fact.During their stay, each client will receive a personalized agenda, especially designed for him."It's for a few days of being the best hosts," they slide prudence from the Public Relations Department.The Paris teams have been planning the meeting with those responsible for each country for a year to know the tastes, hobbies and even eccentricities of their vips: from getting the best box for the musical of the moment with tickets sold out, until thatTable with impossible reserve where to taste a burger from Kobe to 120 pounds.
WITH DUE RESPECT
There are some of these buyers who come alone and like to enjoy their free time, or those who, on the contrary, require the attention of their seller at all times.Others, as is the case with a Latin client, does so in the company of a friend and has asked for two suites.But attention!That nobody is wrong, yours must be bigger than that of its guest, without being the other so simple or in disagree that may make it think that it has been considered as service personnel.Everything must be careful to the millimeter, they insist, because there are prestige and many zeros at stake.
But although the press is not going to spend, unless we know, the French firm has prepared a lavish gala dinner at the Shoreditch Townhall where the fabulous jewelry of sapphires with opals, emeralds with rock glass or diamonds with corals, they chargedLife adorning Vips like Bianca Brandolini, Claire Foy, Lily Collins, Ella Balinska, Letitia Wright, Iris Law or Diana Silvers.
Mix precious stones with others that are not why not?
But it also deserves the collection.The designers and artisans of the High Jewelry Study of Cartier, led by the French Jacqueline Karachi, culminate two years of work in it and today there is a armored building in the middle of the city of London.There is talks about pieces from 200.000 euros to approximately 26 million.
"What is of special magnitude -RESALTA KARACH -is that we have dared to mix gems rarely seen in high jewelry such as routilated quartzNo importance to others, but on the contrary.The former are so beautiful, there are so many landscapes in them, that when examining their construction and their drawings one feels as if he saw the earth's magma in formation, as if they contained the history of the world.Some can carry up to 2.000 hours of work.When you have them in your hands, you don't even imagine the time that has been used to articulate them, but the client only has the dream, "concludes the designer.
But what is the jeow jewel?We asked Pierre Rainero, director of Heritage of Cartier: "There are several very shocking, both for its construction and for the exclusivity of its stones, but it would highlight the equinoxe necklace formed by a spectacular yellow octagonal sapphire of Ceylon of 15 carats, 32 pieces ofLapisLázuli intense blue of Afghanistan and a multicolored diamond mesh.The designer who did it is one of the youngest of the team and confesses that she was so impressed with that electric blue of LapisLázuli who imagined a galaxy of planets, added the central star, (the yellow sapphire) and the Milky Way with the Networkof bright oranges, yellow and whites ".
A tribute to the perfection of the imperfect where there is no budget, only imagination.
