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Paris, City of Pearls opens at L’ÉCOLE School of Jewelry Arts

Paris, City of Pearls opens at L’ÉCOLE School of Jewelry Arts

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Paris, City of Pearls opens at L’ÉCOLE School of Jewelry Arts

I don’t know yet if I’ll have a chance to see Paris, City of Pearls in person, but this exhibition is too spectacular not to share with you! Let’s take a look.

Exhibition Paris, City of Pearls – Photo Dylan Dubois

Paris, City of Pearls opens at L’ÉCOLE School of Jewelry Arts

There’s an exciting new jewelry exhibit in town! Paris, City of Pearls has opened at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts (the jewelry school supported by Van Cleef & Arpels) and it sounds like a can’t miss for any jewelry lovers in the area.

What makes Paris the city of pearls? According to the exhibition materials:

From the late 1860s to the late 1930s – a period corresponding to France’s Third Republic – a majority of the pearls fished in the Gulf were gradually brought to France, sold in Paris and mounted by the top jewelers of the Place Vendôme.

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