Nature’s Folio: The Boucheron Untamed Nature High Jewellery Collection

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Boucheron Histoire de Style High Jewellery offering will contain artistically ambitious jewels in the transformative spirit of multi-wear. The mystery comes in the form of a heritage theme, chosen by Creative Director Claire Choisne to spotlight the Maison’s past and shape the future of its impeccable output. In 2025, we are graced with Untamed Nature – a collection that unfurls like the pages in a naturalist’s sketchbook, filled with three-dimensional sketches of blossoms, blooms and insects. Be prepared to feel transported to the French countryside, somewhere in the 19th century, armed with only a graphite pencil and the very earliest monochrome camera…

The first thing that struck me about the Boucheron Untamed Nature High Jewellery collection was its photography, which is almost exclusively captured in shades of black and white. The results are transportive to the time of Frédéric Boucheron (1830-1902), who channelled his own passion for the natural world into his eponymous Maison and its now recurring motifs. Pieces in the new Untamed Nature offering are simplified through a palette of diamonds and white gold. However, don’t let this fool you; there’s nothing simple about the drapes of ivy leaves that swing across the neck or the encrusted reeds that sweep over the ear into the hairline. The collection contains 28 pieces, each one designed to be worn in innovative ways. The Oat head jewel, for example, is pictured poking out of a tightly wound hair bun, while the Lierre (Ivy) bodice train is shaped to follow the contours of the upper body. As has become a tradition for Boucheron, the pieces are photographed on both male and female models, almost as if they have become one with the living tendrils of plants.