My Favorite Things: Boucheron Sheherazade Pendant
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When I was but a wee lass, my parents bought me a violin. This was back when every Korean parent wanted his or her kid to be the next Sarah Chang. They promised me that, if I practiced every day, I would become a famous violinist and travel the world and make lots of money and, more importantly, make them proud.
Well, I didn’t practice every day, and I didn’t get famous. The only thing left from that era of my life is an abiding love for classical music.
One of my favorite symphonic suites is Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade. Inspired by the tale of Scheherezade in the Arabian Nights, it features a beautiful violin solo that never fails to make me wish that I’d stuck with it and practiced every day.
Well, I can’t change the past, but I still love Scheherezade. And so does Boucheron.
Boucheron Sheherazade Pendant, $27,000 at boucheron.com.
The prestigious French jewelry house has designed a beautiful pendant inspired by the story of Scheherezade.
Scheherezade was the daughter of a Persian Grand Vizier, who served a cruel sultan named Shahryar. Every day, Shahryar would marry a different woman and have her executed the following morning. The kingdom soon started to run out of girls for him to marry, and Shahryar told the Grand Vizier that, once that happened, the Vizier’s head would be next on the chopping block.
In order to save her father, Scheherezade agreed to marry Shahryar herself and, on their wedding night, told him a marvelous story with a cliffhanger ending.
Wanting to hear the ending, he decided to keep her alive for one more day. Scheherezade told a new tale every night for 1,001 nights. After her story was done, Shahryar realized that he had actually fallen in love with Scheherazade, and so they lived happily ever after.
This mysterious pendant of white gold set with sapphires, diamonds, pink tourmalines, and amethysts conjures up images of flying carpets, bazaars, and sultans living in sumptuous palaces.
And, like its namesake, it keeps me coming back for more.
Addicted,
Olivia
