The antithesis of confinement may well be a tiara.
Jean-Marc Mansvelt, CEO of French jeweller Chaumet, says 2021, a year still deep in pandemic stultification, was a banner one for the storied 240-year-old house. It was “the absolute record in terms of sales of tiaras”, says Mansvelt from Chaumet’s headquarters above its refurbished Place Vendôme boutique in Paris.
Chaumet tiaras have been worn by everyone from the maison’s first major client – and
