Boucheron’s latest high jewellery offering begins with a moment that’s easy to miss — a curling cyclamen petal, an oat stalk caught in the breeze, a caterpillar inching forward, unaware it’s been rendered in diamonds. These details make up Composition n°4, one of six sculptural sets in the Maison’s new Carte Blanche collection, titled Impermanence.

A Collection in Motion, Designed to Transform

Unveiled during Paris Haute Couture Week 2025, the 28-piece series captures the quiet transience of nature: flowers in mid-bloom, insects in flight, stems that seem to sway. Each composition is transformable, offering brooches, earrings, necklaces, hairpieces and rings — all crafted to suggest movement, even when perfectly still.

“Everything moves, everything changes, everything disappears,” says Creative Director Claire Choisne. “What could be more beautiful than something that does not last?”

Composition N°4 with cyclamens, oat, caterpillar and butterfly. 4,279 hours of work. Picture courtesy of Boucheron

Six compositions, one theme: fleeting beauty

Each numbered composition tells a unique botanical story, blending organic forms with precise craftsmanship. Here’s how the six unfold:

• Composition n°1: A poppy and sweet pea pair with a butterfly coated in Vantablack, one of the darkest substances on earth.

Composition N°1 presents a poppy, sweet pea and butterfly in aventurine, onyx and Vantablack®, set with diamonds and spinels on titanium. 2,004 hours of work. Picture courtesy of Boucheron

• Composition n°2: A magnolia branch hosts a delicate stick insect that detaches as a brooch.

Composition N°2 features a magnolia and stick insect brought to life in transformable white gold and titanium jewels. Picture courtesy of Boucheron

• Composition n°3: Iris and wisteria blossoms drape beside a gleaming black stag beetle in ceramic and titanium.

Composition N°3 features an iris, wisteria and stag beetle in diamond-set ceramic, aluminium, titanium and white gold. 4,685 hours of work. Picture courtesy of Boucheron

• Composition n°4: Cyclamen petals and oat stems lean together, joined by a caterpillar and butterfly, all in pavé diamonds and lightweight white gold.

Composition N°4 pairs cyclamens and an oat branch with a caterpillar and butterfly in diamonds, spinels, rock crystal and lacquered white gold. 4,279 hours of work. Courtesy of Boucheron

• Composition n°5: Thistles bloom in resin and aluminium, while a rhinoceros beetle gleams with over 800 diamonds.

Composition N°5 features thistles and a rhinoceros beetle in diamond-set white ceramic and white gold. 2,880 hours of work. Picture courtesy of Boucheron

• Composition n°6: A tulip curls around eucalyptus leaves, interrupted by a dragonfly with sapphire glass wings.

Composition N°6 pairs a tulip, eucalyptus and dragonfly in borosilicate glass, mother-of-pearl, diamonds and white gold. 1,860 hours of work. Picture courtesy of Boucheron

Jewellery that moves with the wearer

What sets this collection apart is not just the subject matter, but the sense of motion it preserves. Materials like titanium, borosilicate glass, rock crystal, ceramic, and even 3D-printed resin allow Choisne’s vision to defy gravity. Some pieces are engineered to mimic the weightlessness of a falling petal or the tension of a stem just before it breaks.

Each composition is made up of multiple elements that can be worn individually or together — like stacking sculptures. And despite the intricacy, these jewels remain wearable: light, flexible, and designed to follow the body’s movement.

Impermanence, immortalised

In an industry built on permanence and value, Impermanence is a quiet rebellion. It asks us to look again at the moments we usually let pass: a bloom before it drops, a bug before it flies. In Boucheron’s hands, these small miracles are given space, material, and meaning.

The Jewels Club take

Boucheron’s Impermanence doesn’t shout — it whispers. It doesn’t dazzle through scale or spectacle, but through restraint, precision, and emotion. At a time when high jewellery often leans maximalist, Claire Choisne offers something rarer: a quiet meditation on beauty, movement, and the natural world. These are pieces that don’t just sit on the body — they breathe with it. And that, to us, is as modern as high jewellery gets.

Discover More from Boucheron

To explore the full Impermanence collection in detail — including all six compositions and behind-the-scenes insight into the craftsmanship — visit boucheron.com or follow @boucheron on Instagram for the latest visuals, films and close-up shots of each transformable piece.