Cartier Juste Un Clou Collection

The latest must-have bracelet from Cartier comes from the brand’s new Juste un Clou (“Just a Nail”) collection. A reinterpretation of a bracelet that Aldo Cipullo designed for the house in 1971.

“I became a great connoisseur of nuts, screws and other fasteners. This hardware, as hard as it is in appearance, has a certain warmth. The jewelry must generate heat.” said Aldo Cipullo, designer at Cartier between 1969 and 1974.
Leaving us suddenly at age of 48 in 1984 in New York. Also is  especially famous for having designed,in the city of skyscrapers, two cult models of the world’s leading jewelery. Called Love, his first creation in 1969, is a  brilliant handcuffs to chain to the wrist of a loved onethrough a red screwdriver, immediately becomes the symbol of eternal love. Purity of line, strength of the message, look unisex jewelery, Love is revolutionizing codes of this universe by injecting a truly modern. In 1971, Cipullo imagine, in the same vein, Clou (nail in French). This pink giant golden spike, transfigured into a bracelet, is presented alongside the Clou Collection, which includes earrings and brooches, combined hardware store on the same theme.

“This is a reflection of life. We are surrounded by things that are screwed, bolted, nailed. And I think it can not be otherwise”
“I believe that radical change must take place in the field of jewelery – it has to befunnier, lighter! It may very well have side by side a Louis XVI chair and a chair by Le Corbusier. The same goes for jewelry. Those that I create are both functional and tactile, sleek and warm. We can wear them 24 hours 24 without needing to change clothes.” explains the artist back then.
Man of his time, this Italian who wanted to be an actor doubles as a visionary. The success of Love in his favor and the eclipse of the nail specimens of which are no longer made ??by Cartier in the early 1980s.
coincide with the opening of “Cartier & Aldo Cipullo, New York City in the ’70s,” an exhibition of archival images on view at the company’s Fifth Avenue flagship (through May 8).

Cartier Juste un Clou 18-karat yellow gold bracelet, $34,650. Available April 13 at select Cartier boutiques. Call (212) 753-0111.

See the photos below:
Photo Courtesy of Cartier