In Shanghai, Cartier unveiled the second chapter of its Nature Sauvage high jewellery collection—a bestiary of precious jewels bursting with life.

There is such a thing as a 'Cartier style' that is simultaneously certain and amorphous in its definition. Think of it in essence as a bridging of ideas: modernity and heritage, savoir-faire and creativity, figurative and abstract. This Cartier style is expressed fluently in the Parisian maison's Nature Sauvage collection of high jewellery, which unveiled a second chapter of 36 jewels and two high jewellery objets d'art in Shanghai last year. It continues a story first set out in Vienna, expanding and pushing the boundaries of a jewelled bestiary chez Cartier.

Animal inspirations are treated as more than just figurative representations at this maison. Its most iconic is the famed panther. The earliest known appearance of a panthère was in 1914, as an illustration on an invitation to an exhibition of jewels. In time, the panther took on life as three-dimensional jewels that have grown in detail and life (Cartier designers spend hours at the zoo studying the musculature and movements of big cats). In modern forms, this great feline has been interpreted as variously with curved, rippling muscles or faceted geometric armatures, cats that perch, stretch, recline, gnaw, paw, hug and roar.

The panthère is just one creature. So imagine now the vivacity and variety of the animal kingdom as high jewellery. In Shanghai, the Parisian maison took over the newly refurbished and expanded Bund City Hall Plaza, an extension of the Shanghai Municipal Council Building, to transform its interiors into a wilds for its fantastical creations.

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