Description

Boucheron

Specialties

• Worked in both joaillerie and bijouterie.
• Hired local artists to render designs.
• Art Nouveau Designs
• Dress Clips

1830

• Frédéric Boucheron (1830-1902) born in Paris.

1844

• Apprentice to Jules Chaise

1853

• Assistant, Tixier-Deschamps, Palais Royal

1858

• Established his first boutique in the Galerie de Valois

1866

• Workshop established.
• Lacy gold metalwork.
• Faultless Craftsmanship.

Innovative use of unusual materials

• First to do openwork cloisonné (Plique-à -Jour) enamel.
• Carved diamonds into insect wings and sometimes engraved them.
• Steel encrusted with gold.

1866-1928

• FB Maker’s Mark in Lozenge depicted below.

1867

• Exhibited at the World Exhibitions. Awarded a gold medal for jewelry in 1867 at the Universal Exhibition, Paris.

1875

• Participated in the World Exhibition in Philadelphia

1878

• First Prize at the Universal Exhibition, Paris.

1887

• Boucheron is the only French jeweler to participate in the auction of the French Crown diamonds.

1889

• Universal Exhibition, Paris marked the introduction of the point d’interrogation necklace.

1893

• First jeweler to move to Place Vendôme.

1900

• Gold medal at the Universal Exhibition, Paris.
• Noted as one of the forerunners of Art Nouveau.

1902

• Death of Frédéric Boucheron.
• Succeeded by Louis, his son.

1909

• Louis goes to India for the first of many influential trips.

1921

• Creates Queen Mother Elizabeth’s favorite diadem.

1930

• Boucheron is named Curator and Guardian of the Imperial Treasure of Persia.

c.1930s-40s

• Popularized detachable dress clips.

Designers

• Jules Debut – 1858 to 1879
• Octave Loeuillard – 1865 to 1875
• Louis Rault – 1868 to 1875
• Paul Legrand – 1863 to 1892
• Auguste Bugniot – 1890 to ?
• Lucien Hirtz – 1893 to 1925
• Edmond-Henri Becker, sculptor & woodcarver.