Exceptional yellow gold pendant from the "Quartz" collection, three rough blocks of star rutile quartz, topped with eight large trillion-cut rubellites in a bezel setting, and enhanced with a line of brilliant-cut diamonds in paving, 2006, master's mark, certificate, unique piece

 Bibliography:
 - Similar models, from the Quartz collection, reproduced in the book by Marlène Crégut-Ledué, Jean Vendome the precious journeys of a creator, Éditions Faton, pages 304 to 307.


 Real name Ohan Tuhdarian, Jean Vendome created his first jewelry collection in 1950. He continued to work throughout his life, until his last breath in 2017. His protean talent summons as much the baroque and surrealist momentum as the contemporary graphics giving these jewels this refined and very drawn appearance. Sculptor in search of flaws, brilliance, materials and colors, Jean Vendome, artist-jeweler, is a pioneer of modern jewelry. Abounding, his creation resonates like a poetic and meaningful echo to the great artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century. From pop kineticism to the space dream of the Apollo 13 mission, his jewelry sets are transformed into Constellations, Aurora Borealis or Space in the 70s. The Towers, the skyscrapers, the geometric volumes of his rings betray his passion for urban architecture and the race for verticality. The 80s were those of "unreal walks", where he played on the mimetic analogy of agates, fragments of eternity, matte and shiny gold jewelry with phantom quartz and imprint quartz. The 90s were marked by the use of minerals with increasingly strong colors, what Jean Vendome called his "vagabond colors" or "free colors". It was a time of escape and dreams.