
Jennifer Tonkin
Co-Head of Department UK
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Co-Head of Department UK

Co-Head of Department UK
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In 2011, Van Cleef & Arpels collaborated with the renowned Japanese lacquer-artisan, Mr. Junichi Hakose, on a collection of limited edition brooches called, 'Lacquered Butterflies'. Each butterfly - a symbol of metamorphism - was individually designed and hand lacquered by Mr. Junichi Hakose himself. The butterfly brooches were first produced in gold, with a mother-of-pearl base in the Van Cleef & Arpels workshops. The brooches were then sent to Wajima in Japan, where Mr. Junichi Hakose's workshop is located, to be lacquered with traditional motifs and innovative finishes. Each exquisitely rendered limited edition design is unique and numbered out of twenty.