Design Reveals Ground-breaking Firsts for Fabergé; Exclusive Custom Designed Masterpiece ‘Journey in Jewels’ to be Pièce de Résistance of Multi-million-dollar Art Collection on Regent’s New Ship Seven Seas Grandeur®
New Spotlight Voyages Announced Featuring Exclusive Access to the World of Fabergé
COURTESY Regent Seven Seas Cruises: MIAMI (October 26, 2022) – Regent Seven Seas Cruises®, the world’s main luxurious ocean cruise line, and Fabergé, the globally revered jewellery maison, announce a really particular collaboration to create a uncommon, first-of-its-kind treasure for the road’s newest ship, Seven Seas Grandeur, which units sail in November 2023.
Together, the leaders in luxurious have unveiled a bespoke design for a handmade Fabergé x Regent Seven Seas Cruises® Egg Objet to anchor the ship’s new artwork assortment, turning into the primary Fabergé Egg Objet to reside completely at sea. Capturing the essence of how the highly effective pure components of the ocean create ‘The Voyage’, this distinctive creation additionally reveals quite a few ground-breaking firsts for Fabergé.
This thrilling partnership extends to the creation of two unique ‘Spotlight Voyages’ which can immerse friends and artwork lovers into the world of Fabergé and supply unique entry to Fabergé experiences and consultants onboard these sailings.
The Fabergé x Regent Seven Seas Cruises® Egg Objet, titled ‘Journey in Jewels’, would be the pièce de résistance of a multi-million greenback curated artwork assortment which can debut on Seven Seas Grandeur. Regent is understood for offering friends with entry to distinctive art work by the likes of Picasso, Miró and Chagall on show throughout the fleet.
‘Journey in Jewels’ will not be accessible on the market and the prized artwork piece will solely be on show to friends aboard the extremely anticipated Seven Seas Grandeur. Regent selected to companion with Fabergé for the central piece of the artwork assortment as a result of iconic jewellery model’s legacy of perfection, craftsmanship, relentless pursuit for excellence and skill to seize a second in time and create tales and artwork items that span generations. Similarly, Regent’s latest ship, Seven Seas Grandeur, is impressed by the previous and stunningly reimagined for the longer term, exemplifying the cruise line’s Heritage of Perfection with unmatched area, unparalleled service, distinctive delicacies, and transformative experiences that start the second friends step onboard.
“With each new ship we want the journey itself to provide opportunities for discovery and enrichment as much as the destinations along the way,” mentioned Jason Montague, President and Chief Executive Officer, Regent Seven Seas Cruises. “Likewise, each Fabergé objet has a different story to tell, and we knew that our very own Fabergé x Regent Egg could become the type of awe-inspiring piece that would captivate and inspire our guests throughout their voyage with us. It’s the perfect art piece to place on board our newest ship, Seven Seas Grandeur.”
“For Fabergé to have been selected to create the jewel in the crown of Seven Seas Grandeur’s prestigious art collection, which will permanently live at sea, is a very exciting milestone and a first in Fabergé’s 180 year history,” mentioned Josina von dem Bussche-Kessell, Fabergé Creative Director. “It’s a great privilege to be able to creatively pay homage to what makes being out at sea such a special experience.”
Ground-breaking Techniques Inspired by Heritage, Nature and “The Voyage”
As a nod to the significance positioned on heritage by each Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Fabergé, the distinctive ‘Journey in Jewels’ Egg Objet takes inspiration from the long-lasting Fabergé Winter Egg of 1913, whereas additionally closely representing the pure components of the ocean. Conjuring up visions of epic voyages on the water, the egg’s three-tiered base is a delicate cascading waterfall of ocean greens and refined turquoise, whereas its outer shell’s soothing deep blue waves turn into lighter, earlier than breaking right into a sea spray of pearls.
Exterior options of the egg objet design embrace a ground-breaking ombre enamel shell; that is the very first time that Fabergé has utilized this intricate enamelling method to an egg, marking this a milestone second for the Maison. Enamelling is an extremely technical talent, which is made much more difficult with egg objets as a result of added complexity of making use of the enamel to a curved floor.
The outer egg ‘shell’ is comprised of seven blades, representing the seven seas, which can unfurl to disclose a shock hidden inside, particulars of that are being saved as a carefully guarded secret till Seven Seas Grandeur is christened in 2023.
Bussche-Kessell continues, “With the ‘Journey in Jewels’ Egg Objet we have introduced some new enamelling techniques, whilst also honoring one of the most valuable and artistically enchanting historic Fabergé Egg Objets, the Winter Egg. We’ve also carefully referenced nature’s spectacles of the sea, with stunningly delicate details across the many layers of this technically advanced piece.”
‘Journey in Jewels’ will stand at roughly 18cm tall, with a three-tiered base which hides the motion of the egg’s opening mechanism – the primary time that Fabergé has hidden the motion on this method.
Designed by Fabergé’s Head of Design, Liisa Tallgren, ‘Journey in Jewels’ is being solely hand-crafted by considered one of Fabergé’s appointed Workmasters, and a devoted group of artisans based mostly in south-east England. From conception to crafting, the egg can have taken 48 months to finish come November 2023 when it will likely be specifically housed, delight of place in Seven Seas Grandeur’s splendid atrium.
Fabergé-themed Spotlight Voyages Revealed
In celebration of the ‘Journey in Jewels’ Egg Objet, Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Fabergé have created two new Spotlight Voyages. These very particular sailings will immerse friends into the world of Fabergé with distinctive and intimate excursions, in addition to spell-binding lectures.
The first unique crusing shall be hosted by Fabergé’s Curatorial Director Dr. Géza von Habsburg on board Seven Seas Splendor in June 2023, crusing from Southampton, England to Stockholm, Sweden. Guests will discover Fabergé s connection to Great Britain and British royalty, earlier than extending to Scandinavia to find the origins of Fabergé’s craftspeople and the Fabergé collections in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
Sarah Fabergé, great-granddaughter of Peter Carl Fabergé and founding member of the Fabergé Heritage Council, can even host a crusing on board Seven Seas Grandeur in 2024.
Montague continued, “These exclusive new Spotlight Voyages are inspired by the timeless allure of the Fabergé Maison, lifting the veil of untold stories throughout its legacy. Travelers will not only be immersed in the rich culture and heritage of the world’s foremost jewelry brand, but they will also enjoy the unrivaled Regent experience, which has been honed to perfection over 30 years.”
More particulars about each Fabergé Spotlight Voyages shall be introduced at a later date.
About Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Regent Seven Seas Cruises is the main luxurious cruise line, delivering An Unrivaled Experience™, with each luxurious included, for 30 years. Carrying not more than 732 friends, the road’s spacious and classy ships – Seven Seas Explorer®, Seven Seas Mariner®, Seven Seas Navigator®, Seven Seas Splendor®, Seven Seas Voyager® and from 2023 Seven Seas Grandeur™ – kind The World’s Most Luxurious Fleet™ and discover greater than 450 immersive locations globally. Offering Unrivalled Space at Sea™, friends take pleasure in luxurious all-suite lodging, almost all with personal balconies, that are among the many largest at sea, in addition to extremely personalised service all through lavish public areas and expansive out of doors areas. Unique to Regent Seven Seas Cruises, limitless complimentary shore excursions can be found in each port, making it the one actually all-inclusive cruise line. Voyage fares additionally embrace round-trip business-class air on intercontinental flights from the U.S. and Canada, gourmand delicacies in a variety of specialty eating places and al-fresco eating venues, tremendous wines and spirits, leisure, limitless web entry, free valet laundry service, pre-paid gratuities onboard, transfers between airport and ship, and one-night pre-cruise resort package deal for friends staying in Concierge-level suites and better.
About Fabergé
Fabergé, the world’s most iconic artist jeweller, creates extraordinary jewelry, watches and objets d’artwork, in addition to bespoke commissions for a discerning worldwide clientele. Founded in 1842, Fabergé has been some of the revered names in jewelry ever since Peter Carl Fabergé created the 50 ingenious Imperial Easter Eggs for the Romanov household between 1885 and 1916.
Fabergé was formally ‘re-launched’ on ninth September 2009, and is an entirely owned subsidiary of Gemfields Ltd, a world main provider of responsibly sourced colored gems. Today, Fabergé celebrates ‘A Life in Colour’, taking inspiration from its storied previous to create unique items which seize the Maison’s previous, current and future. By portray with the world’s best colored gems, Fabergé explores the artwork of color by means of creations that are designed to turn into future heirlooms. Celebrating the idea of the artist jeweller in right now’s world of luxurious, Fabergé traces its legacy of excellence in creativity, design and craftsmanship to carry a couple of new period of enchanting and enduring private possessions and items, designed to be worn and treasured by up to date connoisseurs. Current collections can be found on-line at Faberge.com, in-store at Fabergé boutiques in London and Dubai, by way of ‘By Appointment’ providers within the UK and USA, in addition to over 100 factors of sale globally by way of authorised retailers.
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