Louisa Guinness Gallery, London

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Madeleine Chapsal, Claude Lalanne: Bijoux, Sacs-Bijoux et la Montre-Oignon, Artcurial, Paris, 1996, 'Hortensia'

Lalanne's 'Hortensia' (Hydrangea) Necklace is iconic of her work for

Artcurial in the 1970s, for which she created a series of collections that each focused on individual parts of a variety of florals including anemone, ginkgo, an🎉d hydrangea. The collection that this piece comes fro🎀m is strikingly unique among the series, however, as Lalanne usually emphasizes asymmetry and the overlapping petals

here form an unusually consistent and symmet💎rical whole that showcases the beauty of a singular petal in formation.