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"Glittering Gardens\nThe Bounty of Nature Serves as an Exquisite Muse for Six Jewelry Makers\nIn his design for an onion bulb brooch ($240,000), as with all of his jeweled explorations of nature, Nicholas Varney (212-223-1043) chose \u201Cmaterials that seem juxtaposed\u2014the organic shape of the pearls set against the sharp forms of the platinum-and-diamond-covered leaves,\u201D he explains. Jim Thompson fabric.\nMounted in gold and platinum and featuring colored freshwater pearls and cascading demantoid-garnet and diamond leaves, a circa 1900 necklace ($325,000) is from A La Vieille Russie (212-752-1727). Believed to be by an American firm, the piece feels almost contemporary in its abstraction. Stroheim &amp;amp; Romann fabric.\nJean Schlumberger often preferred to work with small stones. When a large one came along, however, he would add \u201Cjust enough design, in this case floral, without detracting from the stone\u2019s beauty,\u201D John Loring, design director of Tiffany\u2019s (800-526-0649), says of a tourmaline clip ($97,000), bottom, first created in 1964.\\n\\nAdria de Haume\\n\\n\u201CI have an affinity for bees and have been sketching them for years,\u201D notes Adria de Haume (203-618-9000). A bee brooch ($18,000), right, featuring a pearl abdomen, a pav\u00E9 canary-diamond head and thorax, blue-sapphire eyes and rock-crystal wings shows the depth of her observations. Stroheim &amp;amp; Romann fabric.\nNearly 800 yellow and white diamonds, almost 300 emeralds and approximately 1,500 hours of labor were needed to craft the Lotus watch ($1.285 million), bottom, from Van Cleef &amp;amp; Arpels (800-822-5797). The Marguerite watch ($106,200), below, required 175 pink sapphires and more than 50 diamonds and 160 hours of labor. Jim Thompson fabric.\nComposed of petals of pear-cut rubies, totaling 10.09 carats, and pear-cut diamonds, a pair of Bulgari (800-285-4274) earrings ($228,800), right, from the firm\u2019s High Jewelry Collection are mounted in 18-karat white gold. Hanging from the flowers are rows of pav\u00E9 diamonds, which end in two more pear-cut diamonds. Stroheim &amp;amp; Romann fabric."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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