Van Cleef & Arpels Presents Piece of "Transformative Jewelry"

The French jewelry house, Van Cleef & Arpels, is holding an exhibition of some transformative pieces of jewelry, in Paris until February 27.

The Van Cleef &Arpels displays a piece of jewelry that is a hair comb, designed by Peter Crowley and made by the house, dating back to 1991.

That piece has bamboo engraving effects, and the comb can be separated into two parts, to function as a brooch or hair comb.

Transformative jewelry is a detachable and multifunctional piece as it performs more than one function, or can be worn with more than one piece, and it is a major component of fine jewelry.

That type of jewelry gives customers the opportunity to wear a piece in more than one way, and it appeared at the end of the twentieth century when jewelers created tiaras that could be disassembled to be worn as necklaces and hairpieces that could be worn as pins.

Van Cleef& Arpels' transformative jewelry pieces, designed for the Duchess of Windsor, are the Zip necklace, which can be worn as a bracelet or necklace, long or short, and the Bora necklace, which can be worn in three different ways.

Translated by Ahmed Moamar