Van Cleef & Arpels' second Paris L'École School of Jewelry Arts campus is in the former home of a noble who rescued Marie Antoinette’s jewels.
Van Cleef & Arpels’ latest gem is measured in square feet rather than carats, with the opening of a second campus of L’École, School for Jewelry Art in Paris.
Tucked behind a neoclassical facade on the buzzing thoroughfare, the second Parisian outpost of the school has taken residence in the Hôtel de Mercy-Argenteau, a historical building that had never been open to the public. Given the building’s status as a listed monument, the renovation took a few years to bring installations up to museum standards, under the watchful eye of France’s historic monuments bodies.
What might surprise is that there are few, if any, pieces by Van Cleef among the 120 items that range from stage accessories such as a gilt-metal laurel crown worn for a staging of “Britannicus” and donated by Napoléon Bonaparte to a brooch made by René Lalique in honor of famed actress Sarah Bernhardt., the president and chief executive officer of Van Cleef & Arpels, who now also serves as group CEO of its parent Compagnie Financière Richemont, ahead of the school’s opening.
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