Khaïden, a tribute to Baroque jewelry
Posted on2022-01-31
Khaïden, a tribute
to Baroque jewelry
Posted on 2022-01-31
The timeless splendor of Baroque jewelry...
Conveying a strong message, Baroque jewelry arouses admiration and captures attention.
Emblematic of the Renaissance and its creative exuberance, Baroque jewelry, lavishly affirmed, playful, colorful and luminous, still fascinates jewelers and fashion designers. This timeless style persists in the world of jewelry and remains a source of inspiration.
The Baroque style is a chic trend. The greatest contemporary designers are committed to revisiting this jewelry classic. They showcase this Italian artistic movement which dominated from the 16th to the 18th century. It represents luxury, eccentricity and exuberance.
It is distinguished by a deliberately exuberant design, a dominance of curves reminiscent of Baroque architecture, open shapes, floral patterns and rich colors, especially red, very representative of this period, but mainly gold - in a textured gold version -, where gold never shines, and silver. It favors deep colors, playing on contrasts. This astonishing and radiant explosion of shades, shapes, textures and colors pays tribute to Rome and the beauty of this city, cradle of the Baroque movement.
The opulence, the exaggeration of movement, the exuberance, the presence of strange and amazing creatures, all this make these creations irresistible and fascinating. Each piece is meant to be so beautiful and massive that it could be considered a statement piece, bringing an audacious and theatrical signature to the silhouette.
The Impertinence necklace from Khaïden Bijoux's Écorce Terrestre collection, with its oversized volumes, is a perfect example of "Never too much". Adorned with raw, almost rough gold reminiscent of the engraving techniques used by Renaissance goldsmiths, sublimated by an imposing Rock crystal, somewhat magical, with exuberant shapes, this necklace embodies the aesthetic and complex attributes of the Baroque style. Initially, "Baroque" is a term used in jewelry meaning "irregularly shaped pearl".
Hence the name "Baroque" given to cultured pearls with natural shapes that give them a special identity.
The Volupté necklace from Écume des Mers collection, a best-seller for the Khaïden brand, which combines its pearls with a large link chain, an imposing cross and a glamorous knot, is a beautiful representation of the baroque pearl.
It illustrates the particular features of irregular pearls, the brand's signature.
Baroque is characterized by a taste for movement, dramatization and decorative exuberance. It's an artistic paradigm that aims to surprise and move.
It's the taste of excess and exaggeration: gems with pure tones and uncalibrated shapes, but always with a rigor, with an aesthetic purpose that is highly precise and most bluffing.
It's precisely this paradox between excess and aesthetic rigor, very specific to the Baroque movement, which intrigues and fascinates. Khaïden is the embodiment of baroque jewelry revival. The brand's designer identifies with and takes on the codes of these captivating oddities.
The personality of the designer is comparable to these voluntarily jammed pieces, these spontaneous combinations, surprising and presumptuous at the same time. No line is straight, but rather curved and often imperfect, but with a precise aesthetic and refined purpose, applying seamless logic and rigor. In the same way, the designer imposes herself on this segment of baroque jewelry like a devastating, eccentric, exuberant, imposing, even disturbing whirlwind at times, like an explosion of energy, of ideas while remaining refined, meticulously calibrated and rigorous.
Without a frame governed by norms, deprived of reference points, a person can quickly lose footing and get carried away in an inappropriate judgment.
Let's not fool ourselves, the baroque effect shakes things up, it impresses, but it is also refined with its singular and unique identity.
These jewels, with their spectacular effect, become objects of artistic expression, autonomous and uncomplicated. They meet the demands of women in search of audacity, women who want to be different and stand out to seduce. They impose themselves as a weapon of seduction. The Khaïden collection now includes nearly one hundred whimsical pieces. Like a woman, Khaïden's revisited and reworked baroque jewelry is both refined and complex, imposing and exuberant for some.
