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Tenth Annual Butterfly Embarks Legendary Amorous Aura

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s the world’s leading jewellery and aesthetic creation first Annual Butterfly, the “Ruby Butterfly Brooch”, with the idea that
brand, CINDY CHAO The Art Jewel’s Annual Butterfly it could be her “final piece” and the desire to break out of her cocoon
has long been the most iconic collection of jewellery and fly high. In 2020, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris included
artist Cindy Chao with pundits on tiptoe. It not only this work in its permanent collection. In 2009, Cindy Chao created
demonstrates the brand’s keen eye for gemstones, the second Annual Butterfly, the “Royal Butterfly Brooch”, which
A exquisite craftsmanship and its outstanding became a permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of
unique artistic creativity, but also reveals the artists changing state Natural History in the United States the following year. “2023 Black
of mind and philosophical ideas. In the past 19 years, only 10 Annual Label Masterpiece I Amour Butterfly Brooch” announced this year will
Butterflies have been born, two of which have been included in the once again lead visitors into a new realm of jewellery art. Cindy led
permanent collections of two European and American museums, a group of European ace experts for over 15,000 hours in five years
and two have achieved impressive results at auctions. While Annual to create this piece. Specially produced for a collector couple Cindy
Butterfly pieces have been pre-ordered and sought after by collectors has known for 20 years, the work is born out of adoration and carries
until 2028, how will this year’s tenth Annual Butterfly interpret the the deep friendship between the artist and the collectors, witnessing
height and spirit of “museum-calibre art jewel”? the cherish and heritage of two generations of the collector couple’s
family. Into the work, the jewellery artist injects her perception of life,
A 5-Year Dedication with Love and Friendship her relentless pursuit of perfection, and her challenges against the
The Annual Butterfly represents the metamorphosis of artist multiple transformations between light and shadow with “the mind of
Cindy Chao at every stage, her continuous self-transcendence an architect and the hands of a sculptor”. With exact calculation and
in artistic creation, and the realization of the brand’s continuous craftsmanship, Cindy’s imaginary of intertwined double butterflies is
breakthroughs in craftsmanship. In 2008, Cindy Chao created the transformed into an eternal miniature masterpiece.

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