Channel Kate Middleton at the 2018 Bafta awards with artful high jewellery – 5 stunning pieces by Chanel, Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, Chaumet and Harry Winston

May 5 , 2021

Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton shows off a baguette-cut emerald necklace and earrings high jewellery set in 2018. Photo: @_kate_middleton_royal/Instagram

Arrays of diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires dazzle in these artistic creations that draw both on nature and on man’s ingenuity

Pieces are inspired by everything from comets to crocodiles, from Venice’s Byzantine-era mosaics to the contemporary layout of New York’s Central Park

In a mosaic, simple coloured pieces are arranged together to create more complicated works of art – and high jewellery pieces sometimes use the same effect too, only with carefully crafted gemstones. Such wearable art has been seen on many stars – even on Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, at the 71st Bafta (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards in 2018, when she wore an alluring baguette-cut emerald necklace and earrings said to be a private gift. As the duchess just celebrated her 10th wedding anniversary with husband Prince William on April 29, STYLE was inspired to bring together a select few similarly alluring pieces that use delicate mosaics of diamonds and other coloured stones to artistic effect.

Chanel

Inspired by the Byzantine-era mosaics of Venice, these Eblouissante earrings play with geometry, balancing diamond arrangements of baguette diamonds on rose gold and platinum.

Cartier

Taking inspiration from crocodile skin, this 18-carat pink gold necklace from the [Sur]Naturel High Jewellery collection produces a scaly effect, graduating from pink to purest white, using coral, grey mother-of pearl and diamonds.

VCA

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