STYLE Edit: Graff’s bold and classic beauties take their inspiration from Cy Twombly’s art

Great art inspires more great art. And make no mistake, the finest jewellery creations are works of art. The art of Cy Twombly has inspired new diamond jewellery from the master craftsmen of Graff.

Laurence Graff is a renowned art collector with an appreciation of the moderns; Twombly’s work combines his European sensibility with the freedom of his American roots. It is a marriage of minds from which emerges jewellery that is bold, seemingly mobile, yet with classic beauty.

Twombly used the flowing lines of doodles and handwriting, and the disruptive power of graffiti to make his work powerful. The new Graff pieces flow, too, in mesmerising spirals which are exuberantly contemporary but which, like all great art, will defy the passing of time.

Take earrings that swirl around in cascading spirals to end in superb pear-shaped drops. These earrings have the freedom of a Twombly doodle, as if a thoughtless scribble had suddenly transformed into an exquisite jewel, with each freehand loop of different proportion, creating a joyful spontaneity. Only a great technician could achieve this triumph of ingenuity and artistry. Graff jewellers have used round diamonds on the uppermost aspects of the whorls and emerald-cut diamonds on the underside, creating a three-dimensional effect. With 17.12 carats in total diamond weight, these earrings are cascades of brilliance.

The design is also dramatically interpreted in 11.92ct of rubies and 4.27ct of diamonds.

Another pair of drop earrings is more an explosion of brilliance with loops forming a flowerlike doodle on the lobe. Two pear-shaped diamonds are suspended from diamond trails.