High watchmaking and haute jewelry have been inextricably linked at Piaget since 1957, and that sentiment continues to ring true in pieces like this 18K-rose-gold Essentia watch, which features a mesmerizing opal dial set with diamonds.

There is arguably no Surrealist painting more famous than Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory (1931), portraying a grouping of pocket watches—limp and soft like melting Camembert in the sun, according to the artist—in a barren and infinite dreamscape; the work has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York for more than 90 years.

legend of the Rococo period, Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted works acclaimed for their unbridled romance, frivolity, and eroticism, such as The Swing (1767–68), which portrays a young woman aloft between two men—presumed to be her elderly husband and young lover—her ruffled dress billowing and slipper flinging into the air with delightful abandon.

In one of the final runway shows before the first collection by new creative director Matthieu Blazy debuts in October, Chanel adhered to the iconic motifs that have defined the house for the past 115 years, presenting layers of tweed, oversize pearls, and the ever-elegant ribbon, as seen in this ballet-pink dress and shawl made of mohair and silk.

Loewe’s classic Flamenco bag gets an artful update this season as it’s reimagined with sections of precisely crafted skived leather to recall a painterly topographical view in a wondrous homage to the natural world.

Artist Georgia O’Keeffe spent most of her life in northern New Mexico, and her remarkable masterpieces are a response to the shapes she observed near her home at Ghost Ranch. This work, Desert Abstraction (1931), distills the arid landscape into a simple composition of pure color and form devoid of any brushstrokes.

One of Poltrona Frau’s most recognizable editions, the 1919 armchair takes on a more whimsical aesthetic dressed in Fornasetti’s Ultime Notizie patterned leather, depicting a flurry of butterflies atop a collage of newspaper clippings about the brand.

Butterflies first appeared in artist Damien Hirst’s groundbreaking 1991 solo exhibition, “In and Out of Love,” and since then, they’ve become a recognizable recurring motif for him, as seen in this 2007 work, Pure as the Driven Snow, which explores the fragility of life.