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NH on Film

NH on Film

written by Joya Nehme

Our Haute Joaillerie event, captured on film. Both seem to sit at opposite ends, but look closer and the connection runs deeper than the surface.

The Haute Joaillerie pieces crafted in our French atelier are among the most technically demanding work the Maison has produced. The Mood Haute Joaillerie necklace required 130 hours of setting: 856 diamonds, placed by hand, in a snow setting where no two stones land in the exact same position. The Latch XL necklace took a different path: the chain created through metal additive manufacturing, gold powder transformed directly into solid links that emerge already intertwined, then set by hand with 2,752 diamonds across 29.43 carats. The Try Me Haute Joaillerie necklace reworks a curb chain classic into angular, pointed links in 18k gold, each set with brilliant-cut diamonds. Three pieces, three approaches to the same standard. The work is as far as the craft goes.

One demands precision: every detail controlled and finished before the piece leaves the atelier. The standard is absolute. The other is spontaneous by nature: grain that shifts roll to roll, light that shifts between each shot, details that blur at the edges and a frame that sometimes catches what the eye almost missed. The photographer sets the exposure and steps back. What comes back is partly intention, partly chance. 

What looks like opposition is, on closer inspection, the same commitment expressed differently: total investment before the result is visible. The Maison has always been built on the productive friction between two things that seem to resist each other. Nouvel and Heritage. New and transmitted.

Film photography runs on irreversible decisions: You load thirty-six frames, you set the exposure, the result stays hidden until the roll is developed. That is the same logic as the bench. A stone, once set, is set. A clasp, once formed, is a form. The work moves forward. Each gesture is a commitment, and the piece that emerges is the record of all of them.

Discover more about our last event here