MARC NEWSON, AGAIN!

Australian designer Mac Newson is all over the place today!  The Moment blog reported about his new necklace design for Boucheron which took 1,500 hours to craft, and 2,000 diamonds and sapphires.  It is based on a mathematical formula of “fractals.”

“Specifically, the formula, when graphed, reveals a structure whose form repeats itself at ever smaller scales, so that it looks the same no matter how much you zoom in on any piece of it. Newson’s necklace, though it’s not infinitely complex, comes close in sheer brain-scrambling grandeur: It was created using rapid-prototyping, and contains 2,000 individual stones set in tiny three-pronged settings, which makes each gem look like it’s floating.”

Newson said, “I wasn’t thinking luxury at all, but the technical rigorousness of the piece, as well as the sheer number of stones that went into it will probably make this one of the most expensive necklaces Boucheron’s ever made.”

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