2023-11-01
1 小时 0 分钟There is something about the first long, dark nights of winter that make us crave things that sparkle. It’s perhaps for that reason that we’ve gravitated towards the theme of adornment in this episode. We discuss the history of jewellery with two peerless experts, head to the Dance Reflections festival by Parisian house Van Cleef & Arpels and visit a show exploring the pioneering colour of the Victorian era. Plus: we hear from a historian using objects to retell history through a female gaze and muse on the enduring allure of tweed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There is something about the first long dark nights of winter that make us crave flickering candles, low lights, fulsome red wines and things that sparkle.
It's perhaps for that reason, as the clocks fall back, that we gravitated towards the theme of jewelry adornment and just colour.
In this edition of the show, we pull up a chair and sit down to discuss the history of jewellery with two peerless experts.
From the ancient and very human urge to wear shells and beads to the displays of 19th century opulence and the place where art, design and jewelry collide.
Our New York correspondent visits a performance that opens the Dance Reflection season, a program run by Parisian jewelry house Van Cleef and Arpels.
Van Cleef's New York run is studded with experimental explorations of movement.
We find out how the house's founders love of modern choreography is still important to the contemporary maison.
We also visit a show exploring the pioneering colour of the Victorian era, hear from a historian using objects to retell history through a female gaze and muse on the enduring allure and nuanced beauty of Scottish tweed.
This is Confect Corner and I'm your host, Sophie Grove.
Suddenly I discovered that the headpin around 1900 was a way for women to defend themselves in the street.
So it was used like a real weapon and it became something very popular and it also fueled big discussions about the safety of women in the streets around 1900.
And this was something I didn't know at all.
Why would you like to have a diamond that says around it I'm not a diamond?
I think it is a little bit like wearing a fake Chanel bag.
What are you trying to achieve with that?
Classic tweed is woven from the hues of Scotland's landscape.
Its earthy tones of ombre, moss, mustard and mauve reflect the heather, bracken, woodland and merland.
Its textured twill mirrors newly ploughed fields and withstands the blustering winter winds.
Wearing it, you feel as though you are part of the landscape.
Welcome to this episode of Confect Corner.