Maison 34 of 100 · Fine Jewelry
Chaumet
The reading
Napoleonic tiaras and the Joséphine collection. Place Vendôme address, LVMH industrial spine. The bee and the wheat-ear are Empire codes that still photograph like power.
The house
- Origin
- France
- Founded
- 1780
- Atelier
- Fine Jewelry
- Ownership
- LVMH
- Signature
- Joséphine / Bee
- Register note
- Tiara house of Empire This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Where it sits in this register
It is the 9th-oldest house in the register. France puts twenty-six maisons into this register, the largest national group, and this is one of them. It is one of twenty-one LVMH houses in this register: Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine, Fendi, Loewe, Givenchy, and fourteen more. Of the fifteen houses filed under Fine Jewelry, it is the 9th. No other house here dates from the 1780s. The LVMH houses filed here run from No. 2 to No. 100. Either side of it the register lists No. 33 Piaget and No. 35 Boucheron. Eight countries are represented in Fine Jewelry here, and this house files to France.