STYLE Edit: Inside Graff’s show-stopping new Threads Collection, including the dazzling 18.35- carat emerald necklace and a 7.74-carat Royal Blue sapphire ring

The luxurious maison was founded in 1960 by legendary British jeweller Laurence Graff, who started off as a jewellery designer before moving into retail. He gradually built up his business into a company renowned around the world for its skill and artistry with diamonds, from sourcing to design to manufacture. The Threads Collection has long been one of its most coveted lines, dazzling all with its ornate way of presenting the stones, stringing them along in delicate geometrically set lattices, in a display of breathtaking monochromatic beauty.

Now, Threads has gained a new dimension with a range of new abstract pieces that incorporate coloured stones, from yellow diamonds to sapphires to emeralds, that both highlight and pop against the stunning strings of diamonds among which they are set, bringing a vivid new look to the collection.

The geometric lines of the threads are offset by the clean lines of the other gemstones: emerald-cut sapphires and emeralds, and cushion-cut yellow diamonds. Only the very finest and most sought-after examples of those stones are used in these pieces, including Colombian emeralds and Royal Blue sapphires, each one of them personally selected by a member of the Graff family as representing the very pinnacle in terms of depth of colour, clarity and saturation.

Among the individual pieces in the new collection are several show-stopping emerald pieces that represent the purest high jewellery interpretation of these noble stones. The Threads Collection emerald and diamond bracelet showcases five of the green jewels, weighing in at a total of 11.10 carats, set at intervals around an interlocking lattice of diamonds that themselves total 5.26 carats.