IN FULL BLOOM: When Van Cleef & Arpels scooped up a Grand Prize at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, the house of Alfred Van Cleef and Estelle Arpels was a rising signature in jewelry that was less than two decades old.

Now a grande dame of Place Vendôme, it retraces its deep Art Deco links and 100-and-some years history and with an exhibition running until Jan. 18 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum — itself an architectural jewel of the movement, built in 1933 after Prince and Princess Asaka, members of the Japanese imperial family, returned from Paris and the Exhibition.

Articulated in four chapters spread throughout some 25,000 square feet across the museum’s main building and annex, there are 250 pieces of jewelry, timepieces and pre

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