Word: despont
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Gruosi-Scheufele, an energetic blond with a 20-carat sparkle in her eye, is sitting with her father, Karl Scheufele, in Chopard's New York headquarters several days before the opening of the company's Thierry Despont-designed Madison Avenue flagship. Just for the occasion (it's the brand's 100th store), she's had 20 exceptional pieces of jewelry specially crafted in Chopard's Geneva workrooms, and the pieces are finally starting to emerge?one more extraordinary than the next. There's a necklace of black diamonds, amethysts and sapphires, and another one that features at least 20 emeralds...
...yellow against a vivid orange background - just as Van Gogh suggested it would, because his peasant's "sun-steeped, sunburned quality, tanned and weathered, would show up all that more effectively beside all that face powder and elegance." The exhibit has been elegantly arranged by interior designer Thierry Despont, including a replica of Van Gogh's small studio in the Yellow House in Arles, with his prized Japanese prints on the walls. Oddly, for a show dedicated to him, it seems a bit short on Van Goghs; but then the museum's unparalleled permanent collection is only an escalator away...
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