Vacheron Constantin Asked Six Artists To Do The Impossible — Boss Hunting

So too, Laura Baverstock, a goldwork embroiderer who had trained at the Royal School of Needlework, was pushed to work with a material that was almost unheard of, 9-karat gold thread, a material more rigid than the trace amounts typically used in her profession.

At the scale required – half the scale of the smallest piece she had ever attempted – bespoke needles measuring just 0.25 millimetres were designed to twist and form this tricky material into the desired shape.

“‘Creativity is…